Doha: Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science in collaboration with the Qatar Forum of Authors, held a workshop yesterday entitled challenges in teaching Arabic spelling and how to address them, on the occasion of World Arabic Language Day.
The workshop was presented at the Training and Educational Development Center of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education by Professor of Language and Grammar in the Department of Language at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University Dr. Abdullah Al Hitari.
Al Haitari highlighted challenges of spelling weaknesses, causes, solutions and said that the problem of spelling mistakes has always worried teachers as well as parents and a large class of intellectuals need to figure out a way to deal with it, especially since dictation has a great place as one of the important foundations of written expression, while spelling weakness distorts writing and hinders understanding.
Dr. Al Hitari pointed out that spelling mistakes is an issue that even highly educated intellectual deals with.
