Assessment of Problems Encountered by Senior Secondary Arabic Students in Writing Skill in Kwara State

Abstract

Writing is an essential skill in the process of learning, in writing one single misspelt letter can change the word’s meaning and create problems with communication process. This study assessed the problems encountered by senior secondary school Arabic students in writing skill in Kwara State. Descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The population of the study comprised of all secondary school Arabic Students in the state while target population was all senior secondary 3 (SS III) students that
registered for Arabic Language in the SSC Examinations (SSCE). Cluster sampling technique was used to select 210 students that registered for Arabic Language in the State,WASSCE 2022 Arabic essay question was adapted and used for data collection. WASSCE questions are assumed to be products of standardised examinations. Mean was used to answer research Questions
and hypotheses were tested with the use of t-teststatisticat 0.05 alpha level.The findings revealed that students’ general performance in Arabicessay was above average,there was no statistically significant difference between problems encountered by male and female, and there was a significant difference in the problems encountered by public and private Arabic students in essay writing. The study recommended that attention should be given by the teachers to spelling errors encountered by students in Arabic essay writing.