Obstacles of Employing Electronic Arabic Curricula for all Teaching Stages at General Public Schools in Al-Jahra Governorate in Kuwait: An Analytical Study

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the obstacles of employing electronic Arabic language curricula for the elementary, intermediate and secondary stages in the public schools in Al-Jahra Province in the State of Kuwait from the point of view of the Arabic language teachers . To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed illustrating the obstacles in three areas related to: school administration, the teacher, and the students. Individual semi-structured interviews were also used with a number of Arabic language teachers from the three educational stages to identify these obstacles and their impact on employing the electronic curricula within the classroom. the stud also attempted to determine whether some independent variables )gender, educational stage) contribute in statistically significant differences at the level of )α = 0.05( between the average score of the teachers of the Arabic language. The study population included all female and male Arabic language teachers )n=983( in Al-Jahra governorate for the academic year 2016/2017 . A representative sample of 327 teachers was selected to apply the study tools, conduct the appropriate statistical analyses, and present the results and discuss them according to the study questions. The results showed that the obstacles in the field of school administration had the highest averages, followed by the obstacles associated with the field of teacher, and then obstacles associated with the field of students. The results did not indicate a statistically significant effect on gender and educational stage. The study concluded with a number of recommendations.