--- title: "Short Story-based Arabic Syntax Learning — Bahtiar 2026" description: "Basic Arabic syntax (nahwu) is a course that many students in the Arabic Language Education program at Universitas Negeri Jakarta find hard." authors: ["Ihwan Rahman Bahtiar", "Chakam Failasuf", "Siti Jubaidah", "Khotimatun Nafi’ah", "Siti Masyitoh", "Agus Supriatna"] year: 2026 venue: "Ukazh 6" source: "http://ejournal.mc.ac.id/index.php/ukazh/article/view/257" doi: "10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257" licence: "CC BY-SA (journal licence per DOAJ; Ukazh)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bahtiar-2026-short-story-based-arabic-syntax/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bahtiar-2026-short-story-based-arabic-syntax/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/9/) / Short Story-based Arabic Syntax Learning Media: Development Research at Universitas Negeri Jakarta # Short Story-based Arabic Syntax Learning Media: Development Research at Universitas Negeri Jakarta **Authors:** Ihwan Rahman Bahtiar, Chakam Failasuf, Siti Jubaidah, Khotimatun Nafi’ah, Siti Masyitoh, Agus Supriatna · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** Ukazh 6 · **Licence:** [CC BY-SA (journal licence per DOAJ; Ukazh)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257) · [PDF](http://ejournal.mc.ac.id/index.php/ukazh/article/download/257/139) · [DOI 10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257](https://doi.org/10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W4410979377) **Citations:** 0 citations (openalex-snapshot · 2026-10-14) ## Summary Basic Arabic syntax (nahwu) is a course that many students in the Arabic Language Education program at Universitas Negeri Jakarta find hard. The authors attribute part of the difficulty to lecturer-centred teaching that relies on classical books. They argue that grammar has long been taught through literary forms, such as versified nazham texts, but that these suit modern university learners poorly. They therefore built a lighter alternative: a short story that teaches grammar. They followed Thiagarajan's 4D development model (define, design, develop, disseminate). In the define stage, 30 purposively sampled students completed needs and learning-style questionnaires. The resulting story, *Exalted Words*, covers the nominative-case topic al-Marfu'atu al-Asma in seven chapters. Expert validators scored the material, presentation and language on Likert sheets, and the story was rated "Very Feasible". It was then shown, on a limited scale, to nahwu lecturers and students. The work matters as an early attempt to fold Arabic grammar instruction into contemporary fiction. However, the evaluation covers feasibility only and does not measure learning outcomes. ## Key points - The method is R&D with the 4D model (Thiagarajan, Semmel & Semmel 1974). Data came from student questionnaires and expert assessment sheets and were analysed with descriptive statistics. - Each Likert item is scored as P = Σx / Σxi × 100%, then placed in a band. For example, 81–100% means "Strongly Agree/Very Good" and 61–80% means "Agree/Good". - Needs survey results: - 86% strongly agreed, and 14% agreed, that nahwu course material should be presented as short stories. - 67% strongly agreed that they enjoy reading fiction. - 73% wanted extra teaching materials (40% strongly agreed, 33% agreed). - The authors report that most students have a visual learning style. - The story has seven chapters: Mubtada, Khabar, Fâ'il, Nâibul Fâ'il, Kâna wa Akhwâtuhâ, Inna wa Akhwâtuhâ and Al-Tawâbi'. Its settings (pesantren and schools) and its Gen-Z language style were chosen to match the readers. - The issue is listed as Vol. 6, No. 1 and was published in March 2025, not 2026. ## Interesting ideas - Each chapter gets a subtitle that is a mnemonic for its grammatical property; for example, "The Importance of Loyalty" stands for the khabar agreeing with its mubtada in number and gender, which makes an abstract constraint memorable. — For Mova (answer): student-facing explanations of agreement or role errors could be given short, rule-naming labels, so a tested concept is tied to a memorable phrase rather than a bare tag. - The stories are written on purpose so that one grammatical construction dominates each chapter, instead of hoping natural texts happen to contain it. — For Mova (tree): small hand-written narratives could be built around a single UD relation (e.g. passive nsubj:pass, echoing the "Not Always Apparent" chapter on Nâibul Fâ'il) as focused probe suites for the perceptron parser and gparse. - Ratings are reported as a percentage of the ideal score, with fixed qualitative bands, so judgments from different raters and items stay comparable. — For Mova (learn): grades from LLM teacher tiers or human checkers on silver data could be normalised the same way, with fixed bands that decide whether data is accepted, reviewed or rejected. - The story's setting and register are placed deliberately in the readers' own world, on the premise that familiar contexts make abstract rules easier to grasp. — For Mova (back): when generating explanations or examples from the meaning graph, the system could reuse entities and settings from the user's own text, so the explanation stays grounded in what the reader already knows. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. The work belongs to its authors; read it at the links above.* Fields: [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) ## Cite The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{bahtiar2026short, title = {{Short Story-based Arabic Syntax Learning Media: Development Research at Universitas Negeri Jakarta}}, author = {Bahtiar, Ihwan Rahman and Failasuf, Chakam and Jubaidah, Siti and Nafi’ah, Khotimatun and Masyitoh, Siti and Supriatna, Agus}, booktitle = {Ukazh 6}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257}, url = {https://doi.org/10.37274/ukazh.v6i1.257} } ``` - [← previous Severity-Aware Weighted Loss for Arabic Medical Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alansary-2026-severity-aware-weighted-loss-arabic/) - [next → Similar Predictions, Different Processes: A Multi-Level Comparison of Human and Multimodal LLM Language Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-similar-predictions-different-processes-multi/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/9/) ## References 20 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 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