EXPLORING THE EFFECTIVENESSOFTEACHING AIDS OF TEACHING ARABIC FOR NON-ARABIC SPEAKERS IN THE ARABIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: GRADE ELEVEN AS A CASE STUDY

ABSTRACT:The purpose of this research is to identify the extent of the effectiveness of the Teaching Aidsprovided for the teaching of Arabic Language in the class eleventh of Brunei Arabic Secondary Schools. Thisresearch is an Evaluative Quantitative Research as the researchers distributed four questionnaires to all theteachers who teach Arabic Language grade eleven of the Arabic Schools of Brunei. They were four in number.After getting the data required by the research, the researchers analyzed the data using evaluative quantitativeanalytical method in order to get the expected result. The result of the research shows that the available teachingaids for the Arabic Education in grade eleven of Arabic Secondary Schools are characterized with both positiveand negative aspects. The positive aspects are apparently and mostly manifested in the availability of variousmodern materials of the teaching aids in those schools, besides the fact that most of them are in appropriationwith the ages and mental level of the students. Likewise, all of them are motivating and extremely helpful inlearning of Language Skills, in addition to the fact that majority of the teachers are used to exploiting them inteaching. But the negative sides are manifested apparently in the lack of some certain means of modern teachingaids like Language Laboratory (as it is not available in those schools according to current knowledge of theresearchers who have visited the schools). However, it is undeniable fact nowadays that the presence of suchlaboratory has an inevitable vital role for the purpose of activation of Arabic Language teaching in those ArabicSchools, in addition to a small percentage of teachers who do not apply them in their teaching activities in somecases. Thus, it is incumbent on those who have adopted the use of these modern teaching aids to be firmlyincessant in it, because the application of such Teaching Aids has effective role in the enhancement of efficiencyin teaching Arabic Language for those Non-Arabic Speakers. Moreover, it is imperative on others who mightoccasionally abandon them, to be much regular in applying them attentively for the purpose developing andpromoting the efficacy of teaching procedure.

Keywords:Teaching, aids, Arabic, schools.