Author(s)

Sultan Demaitheer Mansour Alanezi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ An Arabic language technician at the Ministry of Education in the State of Kuwait

Corresponding Author

Sultan Demaitheer Mansour Alanezi

ABSTRACT

Due to the increasing spread of the social media use especially between the young generations, the effect of the social media on the learning process has been a matter of discussion especially the teachers' acceptance of such phenomenon. The aim of this study is to find the extent to which Arabic language teachers accept the use of social media to develop Arabic language skills, writing, reading, conversation, and listening to fourth grade students in Kuwait. This study used the descriptive analytical approach to answer the study questions. A questionnaire was distributed on the study sample consisted of (150) male and female teachers for the fourth grade students in Kuwait. The results of this study showed that the teachers were mostly accepted the reading and writing skills with a high degree, while they accepted the conservation and listening skills in a moderate level. The results showed also that there are significant differences in the Arabic language teachers' acceptance of the use of social media to develop Arabic language skills, writing, reading, conversation, and listening to fourth grade students in Kuwait attributed to the gender variable for the favor of the females, while there were no statistically significant differences attributed to the experience variable.

KEYWORDS

Arabic language skills, social media, the Fourth Grad, Kuwait

CITE THIS PAPER

Sultan Demaitheer Mansour Alanezi , The extent to which Arabic language teachers accept the use of social media to develop Arabic language skills, writing, reading, conversation, and listening to fourth grade students in Kuwait. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2021) 5: 27-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2021.51005

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