The employment of documentary film in enhancing Arabic writing skills among non-native speakers from the experts’ perspective
Nowadays, having access to authentic material for language learning, such as documentary film programs is very easy for all students and teachers around the world. The importance of this comprehensive input was emphasized by Krashen. At the same time, many studies have highlighted the linguistic,...
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| Language: | English |
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David Publishing Company
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/51846/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51846/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51846/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51846/1/published%20article.pdf |
| Summary: | Nowadays, having access to authentic material for language learning, such as documentary film programs is very
easy for all students and teachers around the world. The importance of this comprehensive input was emphasized
by Krashen. At the same time, many studies have highlighted the linguistic, informational, and pedagogical purpose
of documentary film in language skill learning. The base of the studies is the cognitive theory of multimedia
learning. Accordingly, the present study has two main objectives, firstly to highlight the importance of using
documentary film in enhancing the learning of Arabic as a second language (ASL) writing skill. Secondly, to
analyse and discuss local experts’ views on the utilization of documentary film in the ASL classroom. For this
purpose, a questionnaire was distributed among 12 experts in the field of ASL in Malaysian public universities.
Their responses were collected and analysed based on closed-ended and open-ended surveys. The findings and
discussion indicated that strong recommendations are given to the credit of the research question. The ASL experts recommend types of documentary films to be utilized, the category of writing skill that can be developed and the appropriate instruction technique to be used in the classroom. |
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