Qualitative Requirements of Training Content of Listening Skill for Arabic Language: Rethinking of Tallem Alloqata Alrabiyah Abra Alshashah

Since listening skill plays an important role in language learning, it is considered as one of the elemental skills in language learning. Individuals need to equip themselves with the listening skill before learning other skills such as speaking, reading, and writing. Therefore, teaching this skill at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels is an undeniable necessity. Utilizing standard textbooks in language classes, along with other learning elements, has an effective role in strengthening students` listening skills. To this end, in this study we attempted to achieve the qualitative requirements for book preparation by a descriptive-analytical method and utilizing the basics of foreign language teaching. Afterwards, based on these requirements through a content analysis method, we reviewed one of the books related to improving listening skills called Tallem Alloqata Alrabiyah Abra Alshashah. We show that emphasis on types of listening, attention to a specific educational approach, concentrating on listening processes and attention to the quality indicators of the audio texts are among the most important quality requirements in the listening skills textbooks. Moreover, the results of content analysis of the book Tallem Alloqata Alrabiyah Abra Alshashah shows that although the quality indicators of the audio text of the book are suitable for beginner Arabic learners, the content and exercises of the book adhere to none of the quality requirements of the book content, and it merely serves as subtitle for the cartoon “Ba’i Al-Halib.