THE IMPACT OF USING HANDS-ON MINDS-ON APPROACH IN ACQUIRING ARABIC LANGUAGE CONCEPTS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate and examine the impact of the hands-on, minds-on’ approach on the acquisition of the linguistics concepts for secondary school students and to promote the students’ attitudes towards the linguistic subjects. The study comprises 60 students at secondary school and then dividing them into two groups with 30 students for each group. The first group represents the experimental group and has been taught according to the impact of the hands-on, minds-on’ approach whereas the second group is the adjusted one and has been taught using the traditional method. The paper examines the effect of the involved strategy in comparing groups and measuring change with pretest and posttest data using some statistical tools like the popular SPSS software. Results show that the experimental group has exceeded the other group in the idea of achievement. Thus, the differences found are said to be significant at (0.05) degree of freedom. In addition, at the same level (0.05), there is a significant impact of the proposed model on the experimental group according to the posttest results. Finally, the results confirm the use of this strategy as an effective teaching technique for improving the student’s attitudes toward the related subjects.