The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest

This article reports on a quasi-experimental study conducted to determine the effectiveness of storytelling in enhancing students’ Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest in the technique. The experiment was carried out with 24 Primary 6 students over a period of one and a half weeks at a well-es...

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Main Authors:	Abu Hassan, Nur Farhanah, Mamat, Arifin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia 2018
Subjects:	L Education (General) PJ6073 Language
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spelling	iium-698612019-07-12T08:58:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/69861/ The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest Abu Hassan, Nur Farhanah Mamat, Arifin L Education (General) PJ6073 Language This article reports on a quasi-experimental study conducted to determine the effectiveness of storytelling in enhancing students’ Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest in the technique. The experiment was carried out with 24 Primary 6 students over a period of one and a half weeks at a well-established madrasah in Singapore. Two instruments were used to collect data on Arabic vocabulary acquisition and student interest in storytelling, namely Wesche and Paribakht's (1996) Vocabulary Knowledge Scale and an Interest-in-Storytelling questionnaire. To address the research questions, the study used descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test and paired samples t-test. The main observations were: i) the control group obtained a higher mastery of Arabic vocabulary after the experiment was conducted, which was due to their relatively higher academic ability; ii) the two groups had unequal ability from the very onset of the study; iii) based on Cohen’s d effect size of 3.68, the storytelling technique had a tremendous effect on the treatment group's Arabic vocabulary acquisition; and (iv) students expressed a general interest in storytelling as a means of learning Arabic vocabulary where a majority (83%) liked storytelling as a method to discover new words. The study made some recommendations on how teachers can improve their practices of storytelling to increase students' learning of Arabic vocabulary. International Islamic University Malaysia 2018-12-31 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69861/1/ijes%20nurfarhanah%20arifinmamat.pdf Abu Hassan, Nur Farhanah and Mamat, Arifin (2018) The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest. IIUM Journal of Educational Studies, 5 (2). pp. 20-38. ISSN 2289 8085 http://journals.iium.edu.my/ijes
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spellingShingle	L Education (General) PJ6073 Language Abu Hassan, Nur Farhanah Mamat, Arifin The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
description	This article reports on a quasi-experimental study conducted to determine the effectiveness of storytelling in enhancing students’ Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest in the technique. The experiment was carried out with 24 Primary 6 students over a period of one and a half weeks at a well-established madrasah in Singapore. Two instruments were used to collect data on Arabic vocabulary acquisition and student interest in storytelling, namely Wesche and Paribakht's (1996) Vocabulary Knowledge Scale and an Interest-in-Storytelling questionnaire. To address the research questions, the study used descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test and paired samples t-test. The main observations were: i) the control group obtained a higher mastery of Arabic vocabulary after the experiment was conducted, which was due to their relatively higher academic ability; ii) the two groups had unequal ability from the very onset of the study; iii) based on Cohen’s d effect size of 3.68, the storytelling technique had a tremendous effect on the treatment group's Arabic vocabulary acquisition; and (iv) students expressed a general interest in storytelling as a means of learning Arabic vocabulary where a majority (83%) liked storytelling as a method to discover new words. The study made some recommendations on how teachers can improve their practices of storytelling to increase students' learning of Arabic vocabulary.
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author	Abu Hassan, Nur Farhanah Mamat, Arifin
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title	The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
title_short	The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
title_full	The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
title_fullStr	The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
title_full_unstemmed	The effects of storytelling on primary students' Arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
title_sort	effects of storytelling on primary students' arabic vocabulary acquisition and interest
publisher	International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/69861/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69861/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69861/1/ijes%20nurfarhanah%20arifinmamat.pdf
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