Using the Web for Critical Learning of Al-Qur’an’s Language: an Exploratory Case Study

About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of Arabic language. Since it is obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in Arabic during regular prayers, an extraordinary social phenomenon has taken place in some parts of the Muslim world: in schools, children are only taught the complex phonetic rules of the Arabic language in the context of the Qur'an. This has given rise to a demographic segment of adult learners who are interested in a Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) curriculum that would help them learn a closed set of syntactic rules and vocabularies in the context of the Qur'an, so that they can recall an idiomatic translation in their native language while they recite or listen to the Qur'an. Little research work exists on the task modeling and user modeling for this purpose. This research work explores the possibilities of using user stereotypes in the creation of task models to be used in development of a comprehensive Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) module. In this paper, firstly , the design and initial prototype of a ubiquitous web based language learning software is presented and some results of the user modeling are shared . Secondly , changes made to the initial implementation based on the user modeling are presented. And finally, merits and drawbacks of the new implementation are shared.