Musyahadat Al Fidyu: Youtube-Based Teaching and Learning of Arabic as Foreign Language (AFL)
Keywords:
Arabic as foreign language, YouTube, learning media
Abstract
Today, it is not surprising to say that there is a swiftly rising use of internet in education. Internet with the enormous features has provided up prospects for rich and ground-breaking approaches to deal with educational issues and present solutions to the escalating needs for learning resources. Despite this fact, it is still found few studies and practices of utilizing the internet as the media in the field of teaching Arabic as foreign language. This paper specifically focuses on elaborating the use of YouTube in Arabic language classroom. It is attempting to give the answer for some following questions: why using YouTube as Arabic language learning media? How to search for learning resources on YouTube? What Arabic skills and competencies can be trained? How to effectively integrate these resources in the Arabic language classroom? How to do the internet source evaluation? How to find out which the students prefer? What are the strengths and weaknesses of YouTube as learning media? This paper ends its conclusion by recommending the Arabic language teachers to use sources available on YouTube but they must selectively give to the students.References
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Almurashi, W. A. (2016). The Effective Use of Youtube Videos for Teaching English Language in Classrooms as Supplementary Material At Taibah University in Alula. International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research, 4(3), 32–47.
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Arsyad, A. (2004). Media Pengajaran. Jakarta: PT. Raja Grafindo Persada.
boyd, danah m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 210–230. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x
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Burke, S. C., & Snyder, S. (2008). YouTube: An innovative learning resource for college health education courses. International Electronic Journal of Health Education, (11).
Burke, S. C., Snyder, S., & Rager, R. C. (2009). An Assessment of Faculty Usage of YouTube as a Teaching Resource. The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 7(1). Retrieved from http://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1227&context=ijahsp
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DeWitt, D., Alias, N., Siraj, S., Yaakub, M. Y., Ayob, J., & Ishak, R. (2013). The Potential of Youtube for Teaching and Learning in the Performing Arts. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 103, 1118–1126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.439
Dwiyogo, W. D. (2013). Media Pembelajaran. Malang: Wineka Media.
Ebied, M. M. A., Kahouf, S. A. A.-S., & Rahman, S. A. A. (2016). Effectiveness of using YouTube in enhance the learning of computer in education skills in najran university. International Interdisciplinary Journal of Education, 5(3). Retrieved from http://www.iijoe.org/v5/IIJOE_29_03_05_2016.pdf
Faryadi, Q. (2007). Techniques of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language through Constructivist Paradigm: Malaysian Perspective. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED495283
Fleck, B. K. B., Beckman, L. M., Sterns, J. L., & Hussey, H. D. (2014). YouTube in the Classroom: Helpful Tips and Student Perceptions. The Journal of Effective Teaching, 14(3), 21–37.
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Nur, T. (2014). Sumbangan bahasa Arab terhadap bahasa Indonesia dalam perspektif pengembangan bahasa dan dunia. Humaniora, 26(2), 235–243.
Oddone, C. (2011). Using Videos from YouTube and Websites in the CLIL Classroom. Studies About Languages, 0(18). https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.0.18.417
Omari, S. E. (2015). The Effect of Computer-assisted Language Learning on Improving Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) in Higher Education in the United States. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 192, 621–628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.109
Petty, N. W. (2010). Creating YouTube videos that engage students and enhance learning in statistics and excel. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8).
Richards, J. C., & Rodgers, T. S. (2012). Approaches and methods in language teaching (2. ed., 19. pr). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Saeheng, P. (2017). A Study of e-Learning, Blended learning, and Traditional Teaching Methods to Motivate Autonomous Learning in English Reading Comprehension of Thais Learners. IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics), 2(1).
Sheetz, D. (2009). Bonk, Curtis J. (2009). The world is open: How web technology is revolutionizing education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. US$29.95. ISBN#9780470461303. The Internet and Higher Education, 12(3–4), 181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2009.04.001
Sudjana, N., & Rivai, A. (2003). Teknologi Pengajaran. Bandung: CV. Sinar Baru.
Sulaiman, K. O. (2014). The effects of information andcommunication technologies (ICT) on the teachings/ learning of Arabic and Islamic studies. Ar-Raniry: International Journal of Islamic Studies, 2(1).
Terantino, J. M. (2011). Emerging Technologies YouTube for Foreign Languages: You Have to See This Video. Language Learning & Technology, 15(1), 10–16.
Watkins, J., & Wilkins, M. (2011). Using YouTube in the EFL Classroom. Language Education in Asia, 2(1), 113–119. https://doi.org/10.5746/LEiA/11/V2/I1/A09/Watkins_Wilkins
Wekke, I. S. (2015). Arabic Teaching and Learning: A Model from Indonesian Muslim Minority. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 191, 286–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.236
Wilson, A. (2015, April). YouTube In The Classroom. University of Toronto. Retrieved from https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/68780/1/Wilson_Andrea_KS_201506_MT_MTRP.pdf
Wu, D., Hou, Y. T. as, Zhu, W., Zhang, Y.-Q., & Peha, J. M. (2001). Streaming Video over the Internet: Approaches and Directions. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11(3), 282–300
Published
2017-12-31
How to Cite
Albantani, A., & Madkur, A. (2017). Musyahadat Al Fidyu: Youtube-Based Teaching and Learning of Arabic as Foreign Language (AFL). Dinamika Ilmu, 17(2), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.21093/di.v17i2.854
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