The Level of Students Engagement in Arabic Language Within Public Universities
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The aim of this study is to measure the level of engagement among the Arabic students’ of public universities. As such, two engagement dimensions were analysed: (a) inside the classroom and (b) outside the classroom. In this study, a total of 344 Arabic students were employed as respondents due to the nature of the study, which is crosssectional involving final year Arabic students from eight public universities. In order to achieve the aim of this study, a simple random sampling method was used in line with the sampling frame. IBM SPSS version 19.0 was used to analyse the data of this study descriptively, such as the mean, standard deviation, and percentage respectively. The findings showed that the engagement of graduates to study the Arabic in the classroom is at moderate level, and followed by lower level outside the classroom. Overall, it was discovered that the engagement of Arabic students at the Malaysian public university level is still moderate and as such the authorities need to take initiative to improve this situation. Thus, the students have to maximise their engagement inside the classroom and outside the classroom at the university. This is assumed to indirectly contribute to higher achievement in the Arabic as well as to produce competent Arabic graduates.
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