Share Paper: Fostering language education in Arabic via digital environment- educational and didactic aspects

  1. Baha Makhoul, CET- The Center for Educational TechnologyOranim Academic College, Israel

Abstract: With the increased reliance on educational technology, it is crucial to explore its contribution in promoting literacy, how can it support printed material, and how can it be utilized in assisting pupils in coping with Arabic language complexities? The current presentation introduces a research that investigated the features and differences in reading comprehension of different text types among native Arab fifth graders in two environments: computerized and printed. Four reading comprehension tasks were administered: two printed tasks and two computerized tasks. An observational documentation was included by the research team, in addition to a questionnaire filled by the pupils dealing ...