Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective

Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective

The paper aims to highlight the need to incorporate certain Arabic words in the teaching of English to Muslim students. Based on al-Faruqi’s framework on Islamic English for Islamic vocabulary to be retained in their Arabic form in an effort to maintain the original meanings, a set of questionnaire...

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Main Authors: Othman, Khairiah, Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2009
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PE English
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/1/IE_teachers%27_PERSPECTIVE.pdf
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spelling iium-45402011-11-17T06:21:55Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/ Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective Othman, Khairiah Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati PE English The paper aims to highlight the need to incorporate certain Arabic words in the teaching of English to Muslim students. Based on al-Faruqi’s framework on Islamic English for Islamic vocabulary to be retained in their Arabic form in an effort to maintain the original meanings, a set of questionnaires was distributed to teachers who were teaching English in an Islamic institution to gather their perspectives as to whether there was a need for Islamic English to be incorporated in the teaching of English to Muslim learners. The findings indicated that although half of the teachers did not know what was meant by Islamic English, they have been using Arabic words in their classes. A majority of them even encouraged the use of Arabic words to be incorporated in English classes. They also believed that the students were receptive to the idea. This paper has pedagogical implications to ESL teachers who teach English to Muslim learners. Keywords: Islamic English, Islamization of knowledge, teachers’ attitudes, English as a second language (ESL), Muslim learners 2009-12-21 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/1/IE_teachers%27_PERSPECTIVE.pdf Othman, Khairiah and Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati (2009) Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective. In: 7th World Conference on Muslim Education, , 21st-23rd December 2009., Shah Alam, Selangor. (Unpublished)
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Othman, Khairiah
Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati
Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
description The paper aims to highlight the need to incorporate certain Arabic words in the teaching of English to Muslim students. Based on al-Faruqi’s framework on Islamic English for Islamic vocabulary to be retained in their Arabic form in an effort to maintain the original meanings, a set of questionnaires was distributed to teachers who were teaching English in an Islamic institution to gather their perspectives as to whether there was a need for Islamic English to be incorporated in the teaching of English to Muslim learners. The findings indicated that although half of the teachers did not know what was meant by Islamic English, they have been using Arabic words in their classes. A majority of them even encouraged the use of Arabic words to be incorporated in English classes. They also believed that the students were receptive to the idea. This paper has pedagogical implications to ESL teachers who teach English to Muslim learners. Keywords: Islamic English, Islamization of knowledge, teachers’ attitudes, English as a second language (ESL), Muslim learners
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Othman, Khairiah
Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati
author_facet Othman, Khairiah
Abdul Hamid, Zuridah Hayati
author_sort Othman, Khairiah
title Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
title_short Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
title_full Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
title_fullStr Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
title_full_unstemmed Incorporating Arabic words in English language teaching: teachers’ perspective
title_sort incorporating arabic words in english language teaching: teachers’ perspective
publishDate 2009
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/4540/1/IE_teachers%27_PERSPECTIVE.pdf
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