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Pedagogical Insights from Al-Mawahib Al-Rabbaniyah: Enhancing Arabic Grammar Learning through the Nazm of Al-Ajrumiyyah

Summary

The paper asks whether learning Arabic grammar (nahwu, i.e. syntax, and sharaf, i.e. morphology) through versified rules helps students more than plain prose instruction. The versified text is the Imrithi poem, a rendering of Al-Ajrumiyyah. The authors focus on the commentary Al-Mawahib Al-Rabbaniyah, written by the first author, which explains the poem. The commentary has been used at Pon Pes Darullughah Wadda'wah since 2004.

The study uses mixed methods with 200 pesantren students and 100 university students of Arabic Language Education (PBA). The quantitative part compares pre-tests and post-tests of grammatical proficiency. The qualitative part draws on classroom observation and student interviews.

The authors report clear gains in remembering and understanding rules, with 75% of learners showing better long-term retention. Students described the rhythmic verse and group recitation as engaging and motivating. Some found the poetic language hard at first, and some university students doubted it suited their level.

The paper argues that compact verse plus an explanatory commentary links memorization with comprehension and application. It recommends formally including nazm in curricula and training teachers to use it. The paper does not use computational methods.

Key points

  • Participants: 200 students from Pondok Pesantren Darullughah Wadda'wah and 100 PBA students at Universitas Islam Internasional Darullughah Wadda'wah.
  • Design: mixed methods, combining pre-test and post-test proficiency measurement with observations and interviews.
  • Headline result: 75% of learners showed improved long-term retention of grammar rules.
  • Source texts:
    • Al-Ajrumiyyah by Ibn Aajurrom (Fez, 672–723 AH) has 26 chapters.
    • Al-'Amriithi (d. 989 AH) rendered it as a 250-verse nazm.
    • Al-Mawahib Al-Rabbaniyah is a commentary on that nazm and is studied by about 2,500 students each year.
  • Possible conflict of interest: the first author also wrote the commentary being evaluated.

Interesting ideas

  • I1. Each grammar rule exists in two layers, a terse verse for recall and a prose commentary explaining it, so the short form stays memorable while the long form carries the reasoning. — For Mova (tree): Parser repair or UD conversion rules could each be stored as a one-line canonical statement plus an attached gloss with examples, keeping the rule set compact but every decision explainable.
  • I2. The study measures the same learners before and after the teaching method is introduced, rather than reporting only a final score. — For Mova (learn): Each new rule set or teacher tier could be evaluated on a fixed test set before and after it is applied, reporting per-item gains and losses rather than just a final accuracy.
  • I3. The method is tested on two populations at different levels, pesantren beginners and university students, to see whether it carries over. — For Mova (answer): Readers could be evaluated separately on simple school-style tests and on harder texts such as fables, to check that a technique does not help only one difficulty tier.
  • I4. Quantitative scores are paired with qualitative accounts of where and why learners struggled. — For Mova (learn): Accuracy metrics could be paired with sampled inspection of the explanation traces behind correct and wrong answers, to catch right answers produced for wrong reasons.
  • I5. The commentary is described as bridging classical grammatical categories with present-day learning needs. — For Mova (tree): The same idea of an explicit mapping layer between a traditional rule inventory and a modern framework could guide documented mappings between UD dialects or older treebank schemes.

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Fields: Linguistics & languages

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The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/ls.v14i2.26656

@inproceedings{solehudin2024pedagogical,
  title = {{Pedagogical Insights from Al-Mawahib Al-Rabbaniyah: Enhancing Arabic Grammar Learning through the Nazm of Al-Ajrumiyyah}},
  author = {Solehudin, Muhamad and hanifansyah, Nur},
  booktitle = {Lisanuna: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa Arab dan Pembelajarannya 14},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.22373/ls.v14i2.26656},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22373/ls.v14i2.26656}
}

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