AWEJ Volume.4 Number.1, 2013                                                                  pp. 108 – 123

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Students’ Perspective on Incorporating Arabic Words in the Teaching of
English to Muslim Learners

Khairiah Othman
Maskanah Mohammad Lotfie
International Islamic University Malaysia

  

 

Abstract
The presence of words and concepts in the English language that do not correspond with the meaning held by Muslims has been highlighted by a number of Muslim scholars. It is argued that there are English words that fail to reflect the meanings that Muslims intend to convey due to the fact that many Arabic words are not accurately translatable into English. Furthermore, Muslims believe that many of the meanings of Arabic words and phrases are of divine provenance and may not be separated from their Arabic forms. Based on al-Faruqi’s framework on Islamic English that proposes the use of Islamic vocabulary be retained in their Arabic form in an effort to maintain the original meanings, this study investigated postgraduate Muslim students’ perspective on whether there is a need for Islamic Arabic vocabulary to be incorporated in the teaching of English to Muslim learners. Aoration of Islamic terms in English language teaching. This paper has pedagogical implications on ESL teachers who teach English to Muslim learners. survey consisting of open-ended questions was administered and the findings indicate that the respondents strongly favoured the incorp.

Keywords: vocabulary learning, Muslim English language learners, Islamic English

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Khairiah Othman (Ph.D) is Assistant Professor at the English Language Division, Centre for
Languages and Pre-University Academic Development, International Islamic University
Malaysia. Her areas of interest include Islamization of knowledge in the teaching of English,
literature in the second language classroom and TESL/TEFL.
Maskanah Mohammad Lotfie (Ph.D) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English
Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia. Her research interests
include the acquisition of English by second and foreign language learners; Malay-English crosslinguistic investigations; and plagiarism issues among students at the tertiary level.