Research Priorities in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from Experts' Point of View
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https://doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v62i3.2138Keywords:
Arabic, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Research Gap, Research Map, PrioritiesAbstract
The eighteenth decade of the last century witnessed the launch of a number of pioneering institutions for teaching Arabic as a foreign language and preparing its teachers, in addition to holding of a number of pioneering symposia. And since that date there has been an increase in the institutions of this field, its conferences, seminars, periodicals, theses and articles, As well as the increasing number of specialists and experts. However, if we review the research achievement so far, we will find that there are research areas that have received care and others that still require the efforts of researchers. Among these areas, what is considered as the duty of time, and some of them can be delayed, but there are no studies that specify what exactly we need to study. Therefore, this research aims to build a list of the main and sub-priority areas of research in the field of teaching Arabic through getting answers from the experts to a main question: What are the priorities of research in the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language? The research used two tools: the personal interview and a standardized questionnaire entitled "List of Research Priorities in the Field of Teaching Arabic as a foreign language". There were seventy-one experts in the field who hold a PhD who have expressed their opinions about the required research priorities; among the most important findings of the research are two lists: a list of the main research fields consisting of fourteen fields, and a list of sub-research areas consisting of eighty-two fields. It is expected that these two lists will benefit the Arabic language departments, graduate studies programs, universities in general, and researchers in particular, in choosing their research topics in the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
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