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 hands-on, minds-on’ approach on
the acquisition of the linguistics concepts for secondary school students and to promote the
students’ attitudes towards linguistic subject. The study comprises of 60 students at
secondary school and then dividing then 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
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
to improving the student’s attitudes toward the related subjects.