Students’ Belief about Arabic and Arabic Learning in Pakistani Universities

Abstract

This is a first research of its kind to know the Pakistani students’ beliefs about learning Arabic language at post graduate level..208 students of M.A. Arabic from six Pakistani universities have participated in this study. Most of the items have been taken from BALLI with some changes. Few items have been developed by the researcher himself in religious and Pakistani context. All data have been analyzed using the SPSS version 15.0. Results indicate that overall male and female students hold similar beliefs about Arabic language learning, with nine items being statistically significant such as female students are more conscious than males about the understanding of Qur’an and Hadith.