The Effect of the Units Approach in Teaching Arabic Grammar via the Use of Concept Map on the Achievement of Intermediate School Female Students

Hasan Ali, Eman

	The Effect of the Units Approach in Teaching Arabic Grammar via the Use of Concept Map on the Achievement of Intermediate School Female Students
Al-Fatih journal
Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 70, 2017, Pages 384-415
Author
Eman Hasan Ali
Abstract
This paper aims at finding out The Effect of the Units Approach in Teaching Arabic Grammar via the Use of Concept Map on the Achievement of Intermediate School Female Students. The researcher stated the following null hypothesis: There is no statistically significant difference on the level of (0.05) between the achievement average of female intermediate school students who study Arabic grammar according to the units approach via concept map and the achievement average of female students who study Arabic grammar in the traditional method. Furthermore, the researcher selected Al-Zumur High School for Girls which comprises four second intermediate sections. Section B was randomly selected to represent the experimental group, whereas section A represented the control group. The study sample included (63) female students who were divided into (32) female students in the experimental group, and (31) female students in the control group. Additionally, the researcher matched between the female students in both groups in the following variants (age, mid-year scores in Arabic during the academic year 2015-2016, and parents' achievements). In order to measure the achievement of students in both groups in terms of the taught topics, the researcher set a posttest which comprised (30) objective questions items. Then, she verified its face and content validity by exposing it to a group of experts and specialists in the field of education and methods of teaching Arabic. Moreover, the stability of the posttest was measured via adopting the split-half method by delineating Pearson correlation coefficient, next it was corrected via Spearman-Brown Equation to reach (0.85). this was followed by finding the difficulty coefficient, distinguishing power and distractors' efficacy. The experiment was conducted in the second semester of the 2015-2016 academic year, and lasted for (9) weeks. In addition to that, data were statistically processed via the T-Test. Results of the study mirrored the supremacy of experimental group members who were taught according to the units approach via concept map over their peers in the control group who were taught in the traditional approach with a significant reference in the achievement. In the light of the study results, the researcher recommends using the units approach via concept map in teaching Arabic grammar. Furthermore, suggests conducting another study dealing with different study levels and study topics to figure out the effect of this approach on other variants.
Keywords
units approach

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