Teaching Arabic as a Second Language in Nigeria

Adam Sirajudeen, AbdulWahid Adebisi
2012 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences  
Language learning as a scientific process and a student-centred activity requires a wide range of planned teaching-learning activities. A number of obstacles hinder the effectiveness of teaching and learning Arabic in Nigeria as a Foreign Language (AFL).This paper situates the search for durable interventions within the context of the present objectives of teaching Arabi c in Nigeria, the realities of teaching the subject as a foreign language and the numerous barriers which frustrate the
more » ... iveness of the teaching of the subject in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the haphazardness that characterizes the teaching-learning process has inexorably resulted in the circle of the production of Arabic teachers who lack requisite pedagogical competencies for teaching a foreign language. A number of recommendations are put forward towards ameliorating the situation.
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.254 fatcat:uwqa6i6qgvdu3gl3dnihnry4ca