The Pedagogical Approaches for Teaching Arabic Curriculum in Nigeria: An Empirical Study

Teachers, especially those who teach Arabic, should possess an excellent pedagogical approach to teaching the language. It is a component of teaching any language as a second language. This study aims to determine the pedagogical strategies used by Arabic language instructors at Nigerian education colleges to teach creativity. Additionally, the present study investigate the accessibility of the teaching resources utilized to teach Arabic in college education curricula. This quantitative study, which used a self-administered survey questionnaire, involved 180 Arabic language students from the eight Southwest colleges of education that were chosen. The sample was selected using a random sampling methodology. The data were evaluated using statistical software called SPSS-20 for descriptive statistics analysis that includes mean and standard deviation. This study demonstrated the difficulties that the pedagogical approaches which include instructional materials availability and usability when teaching Arabic. Projectors, audio cassettes, instructional videos, and Arabic-programmed computers are mentioned in teaching materials used in education colleges to teach the Arabic language. According to this survey, some colleges of education in the Southwest lack the availability of the instructional materials, while others have them but don't use them for Arabic courses. As a result of this study's findings, Arabic language instruction in Nigeria needs to adopt a more effective pedagogical approach to make Arabic courses more productive and relevant, like other courses like French and English language.