Abstract
The employment of instructional technology in teaching and learning has becoming a crucial requirement among teachers and educators especially in the 21st century education. Moreover, the current global emergence situation of COVID-19 pandemic has been forcing educators towards using various online platforms and technologies In Malaysia, universities have scrambled to move the program to an electronic platform to tackle the proliferation of COVID-19 under the national Movement Control Order (MCO). Malaysia’s 20 public universities including Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia was to encourage or mandate online learning for various major languages including Arabic. During this difficult period, Arabic lecturers might need more training to allow them to have an in-depth understanding of how technology can improve learning and motivate their students to learn. The researchers employed responsive semi-structured interviews, which allowed the respondents to share about their teaching practices and how technology motivated them to be more creative in their teaching practices during MCO. The result indicates that online learning can be a solution for the Arabic language educators and practitioners to share their knowledge by using e-Learning or other platforms as education needs to be conducted during MCO. One of the online learning benefits is lecturers become motivated and students become active when they learn using online learning as they are the ones who take responsibility for their learning.
Highlights
On 31st of December 2019, there was a growing report on the acute respiratory illness that started in Wuhan
9 Arabic language (5 female and 4 male) lecturers from the Faculty of Major Language Studies, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) were interviewed about their teaching practices and how technology motivated them to be more creative in their teaching practices during Movement Control Order (MCO)
This study describes how technology influences Arabic language online learning during MCO, which were natural contexts
Summary
On 31st of December 2019, there was a growing report on the acute respiratory illness that started in Wuhan. The virus, which is later identified as COVID-19, attacks the human respiratory system and caused death to several thousands of individuals worldwide (Chen, et al, 2020; Ali, et al, 2020). Rapid transmission of COVID-19 from human to human occurs through droplets or direct contact (Lai, Shih, Ko, Tang, & Hsueh, 2020), which spreads when someone who is infected with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes or exhales (Williams, 2020). The temporary closure of schools all over the world have been announced, impacting more than 91 per cent of students worldwide around 1.6 billion children and young people The World Health Organisation has named COVID-19 a pandemic across the world and the ongoing possibility of more global spread (Ducharme, 2020)
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