The effect of learning with Bagdadi on tahfiz students` intrinsic motivation towards reading Qur`an :a case study at Sekolah Dar-al-Muhibbeen Kuala Lumpur

Abstract

This study has been carried out to discover the impact of Bagdadi method in helping and enabling tahfiz students to read Qur’an in an easier way. It is also aimed to reveal an insight on teaching strategies carried out by tahfiz teachers in their teaching by Bagdadi as well as discovering tahfiz students’ motivations in their learning by Bagdadi. Therefore, this qualitative study seeks to answer five main questions, namely: (1) how does learning with Bagdadi intrinsically motivate tahfiz students to read Qur’an? (2) For how long do tahfiz students use Bagdadi to enable them to read Qur’an? (3) What are the perceptions of tahfiz teachers and students regarding the use of Bagdadi in teaching students? (4) What are the teaching strategies do tahfiz teachers follow in using Bagdadi? Finally, (5) what are the challenges and problems in using Bagdadi?, and how to overcome the problems? Data were gathered through non participant observation and an in depth semi structured interview with two tahfiz teachers and five tahfiz students of Dar al-Muhibbeen School, Kuala Lumpur. The findings reveal that Using Bagdadi in teaching tahfiz students to read Qur’an intrinsically motivates them to learn reading Qur’an. Another thing is Bagdadi enables tahfiz students to read Qur’an within one month, especially for students who have good motor skills. With respect to tahfiz teachers’ and students’ perceptions on Bagdadi, the study discovered that both of them have positive perception on Bagdadi. Tahfiz students perceive that learning by Bagdadi is easy and funny, and it gives them happiness and enjoyment in the classroom, with the exceptions of few students who perceive Bagdadi as difficult to them while coordinating the use of stick and pronouncing words at the same time. However, Tahfiz teachers’ perception on Bagdadi is that: Bagdadi is an interesting and easier way of enabling students to read Qur’an. They also perceived that Bagdadi helps them to gain students’ attention and to achieve their teaching objectives attractively. Finally, the study reveals that tahfiz teachers adopt most of the Gagne’s nine events of instruction in teaching their students reading. Generally speaking, this study provides useful insight that can be benefited by those who involved in teaching tahfiz students.