Abstract
The study suggested a new strategy to teach the letters of Arabic to preschool children using similes from the local environment. It was assumed that the simile embodied the child's cultural experience, being a simple form of the image culture that shaped his or her identity. The study sample included one hundred and two children with an age range between 3 and 6 years, in Kuwait. The author identified the experiences taught in the preschool stage and chose those ones that were related to the cooperative society, and then asked every child to recall a name of anything in the society that begins with one of the twenty-eight Arabic letters. The author then asked every child a question about all the similes that he or she could deduce from the image of the letter, using the experience of "My House" as a model. Based on the similes that were obtained from the children, an integrated story demonstrating all Arabic letters was constructed. Consequently, using the suggested strategy to teach letters to the preschool and elementary school children was recommended.
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Publication details
- DOI
- 10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617
- Journal
- Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, 10(3), 596-617
- Publisher
- Sultan Qaboos University
- Open access
- Unknown
Cite this article
APA 7
Al-Jafar, A. (2016). A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, 10(3), 596-617. https://doi.org/10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617
MLA 9
Al-Jafar, Ali. "A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School." Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, 2016, pp. 596-617. https://doi.org/10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617.
Chicago (author–date)
Al-Jafar, Ali. 2016. "A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School." Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies 10 (3): 596-617. https://doi.org/10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617.
Harvard
Al-Jafar, A. (2016) 'A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School', Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, 10(3), pp. 596-617. doi:10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617.
Vancouver
Al-Jafar A. A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies. 2016;10(3):596-617. doi:10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617
IEEE
A. Al-Jafar, "A Strategy to Use the Similes in Child's Environment to Teach the Letters in Kindergarten and Elementary School," Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 596-617, 2016, doi: 10.53543/jeps.vol10iss3pp596-617.