Teaching Arabic as a Second Language in Nigeria
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2012-12
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Elsevier BV
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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 Arabic
in Nigeria, the realities of teaching the subject as a foreign language and the numerous barriers which frustrate the
effectiveness 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.
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Teaching Arabic in Nigeria; Foreign Language Pedagogy