Insight Arabic Teacher: The Challenges and Solutions to Arabic for Bidayuh’s Pupils
- 1 Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- 2 Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- 3 Fakulti Pendidikan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Abstract
Arabic language has been taught in Malaysian primary schools since 2005 and now, this language already spread s and reach es the non-Malay pupils including Bid ayuh pupils. As for Bidayuh, this language is their foreign language whereby it took about their fifth place after their mother-tongue and other languages such as English and Bahasa Melayu Sarawak. By that, clearly it is a tough work to do for the teacher to teach this language. This paper will discuss qualitatively what are the challenges faced by the teacher to teach the Bidayuh’s pupils Arabic. It is found that there are seven challenges that the teacher need s to resolve. This paper also seek s and highlights the reasons why it happen s and suggest s several solutions that relevant for the teacher to apply in order to make the les son more interesting so the pupils are more excited to learn.
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