The Arabic language subject book analysis for the third intermediate grade in light of knowledge economy skills

10.2478/bjlp-2023-00000145

Abstract

The upcoming research aims to shed the light: on the knowledge economy skills included in the Arabic language school textbook  for the third intermediate grade.  Which helped prepare a list that included (7) seven main fields, and (40) forty sub-skills distributed over the fields of the knowledge economy as follows: (the knowledge field, the technological field, the communication field, the mental development field, the social field, the economic field, and the evaluation field).  (Questionnaire) in its final form, with an agreement rate of (88%), and the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach, and he used statistical methods (statistical bag), and the Excel program to process the results of the research, and applied the following equations: the triple weighted mean, the Cooper equation, and the percentage weight,  And the percentage, and the results showed that the Arabic language book for the third intermediate grade (Part Two) included the knowledge economy skills in close proportions according to the following arrangement: the knowledge field skills got the first place with a rate of (50%), and the technology field skills got the second place with a percentage of (  50%), evaluation skills ranked third with a rate of (42%), communication skills ranked fourth with a rate of (43%), mental development skills ranked fifth with a rate of (38%), and skills in the field of communication ranked fifth with a rate of (38%).  The social skills ranked sixth with a rate of (36%), and the skills of the economic field came in the seventh rank with a rate of (0%), noting that most of the knowledge economy skills were included in similar proportions in the content of Arabic language books for the intermediate stage, except for (skills in the economic field).  In light of the presentation and interpretation of the results, the Arabic language book for the first intermediate grade ranked first, and the Arabic language book for the third intermediate grade came in the second place, and the Arabic language book for the second intermediate grade came in the third place.  The percentages of including knowledge economy skills, and working to reconsider and balance them. The researcher suggested conducting an analytical study of Arabic language books for the preparatory stage in the light of knowledge economy skills.