The Level of Students of the Arabic-language Department in Oral Skills from the Students’ Perspective

Abstract

The study aims to examine the degree to which students of the Arabic Language Department at the University of Jadara possess oral-skill expression from the students’ perspective. The subjects that the study has examined consists of (197) male and female students in the Arabic-Language Department at Jadara University in the first semester of the academic year 2019/2020. The researcher has comprised a questionnaire which has (46) paragraphs divided in ten fields. The study has concluded that the field of "courtesy-related skills" came first, followed by the field of "sound-related skills", then the field of "skills related to the speaker’ psychological features", then the field of "skills related to eye-movement and facial expressions." After that comes the “skills of speech fluency.” Then the “cognitive-related skills,” and the “skills of context (style).” Then, the “vocabulary-related skills.” Then the morphology-and-syntax-related skills.” At last has come the sub-context-related skills.” However, there has been no statistical significant differences based on the gender, the academic level, or the GPA factors. From the perspective of the Arabic Language-and-Literature Department at the Jadara University.

Keywords: Skills of oral expression, Students of the Arabic Language, Jadara.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-8-03

Publication date:March 31^st 2020