Abstract
With the increasing demand for Arabic courses in universities in Malaysia, it shows that students has their own reasons for choosing Arabic Language to study. The Arabic as a third language course is an elective subject offered to undergraduate students in UiTM. Starting from June 1999, UiTM has decided that third language courses should become one of the university’s requirement subjects, making it compulsory to all first degree students. The purpose of this study was to identify the reasons of UiTM students for choosing to study Arabic Language as their third language. The sampling involves 320 students from UiTM, who have enrolled in level 1, 2 and 3 Arabic course. This quantitative field research employs questionnaires and purposive sampling technique as the methods of data collection. The main findings are: most of them choose to learn Arabic language because it is the language of Islam and for them to understand more about Islam and also for worshipping purpose. Besides, most of them choose to learn the language for the purpose of their future career.
Highlights
In the constitution of Malaysia, Malay language is being recognized as the national language of the country, English language gains the recognition as the second language
Second language and foreign language are different from each other, and each of the languages have their own significant according to countries for example, English language is commonly learnt as the second language in most countries because of its more extensive usage in the international level, but it is only learnt as a foreign language in countries like Japan and France
5.1 Participants About 320 students who studied Arabic Language as a third language in UiTM Seri Iskandar, Perak participated in the study. 5.2 Data Collection and Analysis The nature of this study is by employing analytical descriptive approach in presenting and analyzing data that obtained from a survey that distributed to 320 students who studied Arabic Language as a third language in UiTM Seri Iskandar, Perak
Summary
In the constitution of Malaysia, Malay language is being recognized as the national language of the country, English language gains the recognition as the second language. Definition of motivation in language learning is “the dynamically changing cumulative arousal in a person that initiates, directs, coordinates, amplifies, terminates, and evaluates the cognitive and motor processes whereby initial wishes and desires are selected, prioritized, operationalized and (successfully or unsuccessfully) acted out" (Dornyei & Otto, 1998). Another definition by Crookes and Schmidt (1991) motivation involves interest, relevance, expectancy of success or failure, belief in forthcoming rewards, decision to be involved, persistence, high activity level. Research question What are the main reasons for students to choose Arabic as a third language?
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