A Needs Analysis for the Course Materials Design of the Arabic Language Course

Abstract

Abstract-The Arabic course the Faculty of Law at The National University of Malaysia is offered to all first year students in second semester as a compulsory course. Students taking this course are made up of students who have different religious backgrounds and ethnicity namely Malay, Chinese, Indian, Sikh, Iban, Kadazan, to name but a few. To Malay ethnic students who are Muslims, Arabic is the language that is familiar to them as compared to students from other ethnicities and religious backgrounds who have never studied Arabic before. It is undeniable that the students face challenges and difficulties during the teaching and learning process. One of the challenges they find is the course materials, which is difficult for them. One of the demotivational factors in learning Arabic language is course materials. Currently, the students use instructional materials provided by the teachers. These teaching materials are a textbook and supplement texts selected from various relevant and reliable sources. Hence, the aim of this paper is to highlight the initial findings of the needs analysis on the course materials to provide insight in order to better design and develop the teaching materials for the Arabic course.Index Terms-Arabic language, course materials design, Malaysia, needs analysis.

Students’ Needs of Arabic Speaking Material Using the Integrated Local Wisdom in the 21st-Century Skills Model

“…In this method, you are first asked to listen to the dialogue and text of the discourse without looking at the book first, then the lecturer asks students to open the book, followed by a question and answer session for new vocabulary contained in the subject, followed by asking students to practice the dialogue in pairs and asking students to convey opinion about questions related to text discourse. From these findings, it can be seen that needs analysis has an important role in determining the need for learning teaching materials, syllabus and curriculum design, and so on (Aladdin, 2016)…”

“…Moreover, the diversity of student needs is different (Ekayati, Manurung, & Yenni, 2020). Needs analysis is an integral part of the material evaluative review (Rashidi & Kehtarfard, 2014) and fulfils students' needs (Aladdin, 2016). The development of Arabic teaching materials with multicultural values is very important to produce Indonesian diaspora students who have a spirit of nationalism and Muhamad Sarip / Students' Needs of Arabic Speaking Material Using the Integrated Local Wisdom in the 21st-Century Skills Model respect for plurality (Nuruddin, Budiaman, Ilham, & Haqi, 2021).…”

Need Analysis in ADDIE Model to Develop Academic Speaking Materials

“…This covers four need analyses comprising learners needs analysis, inctructional goal analysis, material development analysis, and learning objectives analysis. Zohoorian (2015) and Aladdin (2016) also state that the focal step in designing materials for language learning is known as Need Analysis. It goes along the notion that need analysis is an initial process finding out the students learning needs by which is later translated to learning objectives that will work as the source of all decisions about the course activities, teaching materials, and evaluations.…”

Implementasi Model Mind Mapping dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Bahasa Arab Pada Peserta Didik di MAN Palopo

“…Alokasi waktu untuk mata pelajaran bahasa Arab yang hanya dua jam pelajaran menyebabkan pelaksanaan pembelajaran di kelas kurang maksimal. Kurangnya alokasi waktu untuk guru bahasa Arab dalam menyampaikan informasi pembelajaran maupun dalam melaksanakan model pembelajaran Mind Mapping membuat materi pelajaran kurang tersampaikan secara maksimal (Aladdin, 2016;Andriani, 2015;Brosh, 2013). Alokasi waktu yang kurang leluasa untuk melaksanakan pembelajaran yang lebih kreatif, inovatif dan menyenangkan, dikhawatirkan materi tidak bisa disampaikan secara tuntas.…”