Foreign language

“Foreign language” is a 40-minute class that the American school of Doha provides for the students, who want an additional language to learn, like Arabic, spinach and ESL.

The foreign language classes are provided starting from lower Elementary to Upper Elementary.

Arabic classes that spouse to be an important subject like math, science and social study. Unfortunately, the school gave it to the student just because their parents want them to keep their mother language.

There are three levels of Arabic classes, beginners, middle and advanced. However, the advanced student takes the Arabic Alphabet that the student in beginners supposed to be taking.

Students in grade 3 should know how to read Arabic alone, also to write long sentence, but In  American school of Doha  (ASD), students they cannot read or spell some Arabic words.

The teachers are very careless and do not take it seriously, they let the children choose what ever they want from the book shelf to read, so the students choose the one with more pictures and less words. Therefore, they talk about the pictures without reading any word. (This is from my experience).

When the teacher wants to grade the students, she asks them one question without paying any attention to listen to the student’s answers and give any grades she wants.

My suggestion is that the American school pays more attention to the Arabic classes, also, to put more effort on it. Consequently that children can take both the good education from them alongside they can keep their language and do not destroy. In addition parents would like them to get more educated Arabic teachers.