The effectiveness of the constructivist learning strategy in developing the grammatical skills of secondary school students in the capital Sana’a الباحث/ إبراهيم محمد أحمد ثابت*

Abstract

The research aimed to recognize the effectiveness of the constructivist learning strategy in developing the grammatical skills of secondary school students in the capital, Sana'a, based on the descriptive approach, the experimental approach, and the design of the experimental and control groups in the previous and subsequent measurements. To achieve the objectives of the research, a list of grammatical skills was prepared from the second part of the book (Grammar and Morphology) for first grade secondary students in the second semester of the academic year 2021-2022 AD. The research was limited to an intended sample of high school students from two government schools for students in the capital, Sana'a, consisting of (60) students, divided equally into two groups: an experimental group that studied grammatical skills using the constructivist learning strategy, and a control group that studied the same skills in the traditional way. The research reached the preparation of a list of grammatical skills targeted for development among first grade secondary students, which consisted of (31) behavioral objectives, distributed over the five skills (understanding, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation). The study reached several results, the most important of which is the presence of statistically significant differences at the significance level (0.05) between the averages of the experimental group and the averages of the control group in the post application of the grammatical skills test in favor of the experimental group. This difference is attributed to the constructivist learning strategy, where the effect size was (0.880). The research recommended several recommendations, the most important of which is that the Arabic language teacher should make use of the constructivist learning strategy in teaching grammatical skills to first grade secondary students.

The research suggested some complementary studies, the most important of which is conducting a similar broad study on the first secondary grade that includes new variables such as: gender, educational region (or governorate), previous level of achievement, years of experience for the teacher, the teacher. Qualification, the tendency to learn grammar.

Keywords: constructive learning, grammatical skills