Writing skills and their Relation to Memorizing Quran among sixth graders in Irbid District

Abstract

This study aimed at examining the level of Grade-Six students’ writing

skills to find out how such skills are different between those who read the

Holy Quran by heart and those who do not in Irbid, Jordan. Using an analytic

descriptive method, a writing test was developed to be applied to a subject of

253 Grade-Six (male and female) students registered in Semester II 20092010/

and enrolled in one of Irbid’s Quran-teaching centers. The study showed

that the performance of the two groups in the writing test was less than the

educationally-approved level with a nearly Small Percentage (73.7%) for

those who read the Holy Quran by heart and a relatively greater Percentage

(60.2%) for those who do not. Statistically significant differences were found

at (α= 0.05) in the mean scores of the subjects due to group in favor of

those who read the Holy Quran by heart, whereas no statistically significant

differences were found at (α= 0.05) due to gender nor the interaction

between group and gender. Moreover, a positive and statistically significant

relationship was found to be between how many parts of the Holy Quran a

student reads by heart and how well his/her writing skills are.