A Report on Success and Failure of Teaching Arabic in Australia

This report provides an overview of the successes and failures of teaching the Arabic language in Australian schools. It acknowledges the growing importance of Arabic due to increased Muslim population and globalization, highlighting both positive developments like the broadening of social and political identity among Arabic-Australian students and persistent challenges in achieving sustainable and inclusive Arabic language education. The report references academic sources to support its analysis of the current state of Arabic language instruction in Australia, offering a balanced perspective on the progress made and the areas that require further improvement. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE
OF TEACHING ARABIC
LANGUAGE IN
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Importance and significance of Arabic language
• Success of teaching Arabic in Australian Schools
• Failure of teaching Arabic in Australian schools
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
• Arabic language carries major
influence all over the world both in
terms of economic opportunities and
cultural contribution due to being
associated with the expansive
Islamic religion.

IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
ARABIC LANGUAGE
Due to the massive explosion of the
Muslim population globally along with
the increase in people with Arabic and
Islamic backgrounds in Australia due
to migration and the advent of
globalization, Arabic has become the
most spoken language after English.

SUCCESS OF TEACHING ARABIC IN
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS
There are indeed some positives that can be taken away from the way that Arabic is being taught in
modern schools and classrooms of Australia which are listed herein.
• The way that the social and political identity of Arabic-Australian students and their heritage are
being defined from a young age has become much more broad minded as Australia has always
been proactive when it comes to proving people a chance to learn other languages other than
English

FAILURE OF TEACHING ARABIC IN
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS
• There is still a long way to progress towards
sustainable and inclusive teaching of Arabic in
Australian schools

CONCLUSION
• The above presentation went into detail regarding the way Arabic language is being taught in the
schools and classrooms of Australia currently and it undertook a detailed analysis to highlight the
various successes and failures of the country in this context.

REFERENCES
• Baldwin, J., 2018. The place of Arabic language teaching in Australian universities. History of
Education Review.
• Said, F.F., 2021. Arabic-English bilingual children’s early home literacy environments and
parental language policies. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 29(3),
pp.424-440.

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