Learning Qur’anic Arabic through interactive Web-based software: a pragmatic approach in language for specific purpose

Abdullah, Matin Saad and Pathan, Al-Sakib Khan (2013) Learning Qur’anic Arabic through interactive Web-based software: a pragmatic approach in language for specific purpose. In: 2013 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World (ICT4M), 25-27 March 2013, Rabat, Morocco.

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Abstract

About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of the Arabic language. Since ‎it ‎is ‎‎obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in Arabic ‎during regular prayers, ‎an ‎extraordinary ‎‎social phenomenon has taken place ‎in some parts of the ‎Muslim ‎world: in schools, children are only taught the complex phonological rules of the ‎Arabic language ‎in ‎the ‎context of the Qur'an. This has given rise to a demographic segment of adult learners who are interested in a Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) curriculum that would help them learn ‎a closed set of ‎syntactic rules ‎and ‎‎vocabularies in the ‎context ‎of the Qur'an, so that they can recall an idiomatic translation in their native language while they recite or listen to the Qur'an. Little research work exists on the user modeling and needs analysis for this purpose. In this paper, ‎the design and initial ‎prototype of a ubiquitous web-based ‎language learning software founded on the ‎LSP principles is presented and some ‎initial results of need analysis of the user data are shared. The preliminary results of ‎this study indicate the potential of this approach and highlight the areas where ‎improvement is required.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Full Paper)
Additional Information:	6481/29131 (Print ISBN: 978-1-4799-0134-0, DOI: 10.1109/ICT4M.2013.6518895)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Arabic; Language; Qur’an; Software; Web
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2013 09:58
Last Modified:	11 Jul 2013 09:59
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/29131

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