Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Bahasa Arab Pada Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Tarbiyah Balikpapan Kalimantan Timur

Abstrak Arabic learning is still considered hard by students especially new enrolled students graduated from general schools. They have to face pretty hard subjects using classical books. One of the contributing factors is the less creative lecturers in choosing teaching materials that are suitable to the ability of students graduated from general schools. The disparity between the old and the new teaching materials in terms of interest and the demand to improvethe foreign language competency of students of STIT Balikpapan result in the need of developing Arabic teaching Materials. The varied teaching materialsconcerning the view angle is considered able to decrease the disparity of Arabic teaching. Therefore, it needs to develop teaching materials to increase the interest and improve students’ Arabic competency of College of Educational Studies Balikpapan. To find out the problems, the writer analyzed the problems by conducting USG and Fishbone towards students of STIT Balikpapan. Based on the result, there are difficulties among students in understanding the old Arabic books; on the contrary, they can understand the new Arabic books easier. Students of STIT Balikpapan have more interest in the new teaching materials than the old ones. The result shows that the new teaching materials get score of 9.2 which is categorized as very good and the old teaching materials get score of 7.4 which is categorized as fair.