CONTROL OF LEARNING BELIEFS AMONG STUDENTS OF ARABIC AS A THIRD LANGUAGE COURSE

The aim of this study is to investigate the control of learning beliefs among students of Arabic as a Third Language Course in learning oral Arabic at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam. This is a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative study using a questionnaire adapted from The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and interviews. Quantitatively, a number of 297 samples is selected using the stratified random sampling technique and quantitatively, 21 interviews with students and subject lecturers are engaged. It was found that students’ control of learning beliefs was high. Therefore, this study recommends that in learning oral Arabic, activities and learning practices which can stimulate students’ autonomy need to be carried out intensively in order to build students’ control of learning beliefs.