Can Collaborative Teaching Increase Students’ Motivation and Satisfaction in Learning a Third Language?

Abstract

The pandemic has forced universities to change their teaching and learning activities. One of the teaching delivery methods being widely used is collaborative teaching. This study seeks to understand how collaborative teaching influences learners' motivation and satisfaction in learning Arabic as a third language. 466 responses were gathered from students in the largest university in Malaysia. The results of PLS-SEM suggest that learners' motivation and satisfaction can be predicted by the collaborative teaching method. Recommendations of future research and implications of the study are also provided.

Keywords: Arabic Language Communication; motivation; learning satisfaction; collaborative teaching approach

eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI7.3803