Sharjah: Officials from Lughati, the Sharjah-based smart initiative to help Arabic learning, has visited public schools in the city to evaluate and assess the programme.
The first set of visits started last month, to be followed by a series of visits until February 2017, covering the 49 public schools in Sharjah. Each of these schools received smart tablets to strengthen their Arabic teaching programmes.
This phase of the initiative targeted Grade 1 students and teachers.
Lughati’s second phase, which has an estimated budget of Dh15.5 million, distributed free smart tablets to Grade 1 students and teachers in Sharjah’s public schools, reaching a total of 2,977 students and 129 teachers in 49 schools.
Lughati, Arabic for ‘My Language’, was launched in 2013, and aims to boost Arabic language education in Sharjah’s schools using new technology.
The initiative aims to reach 25,000 students and 1,000 teachers starting at the kindergarten level up until grade five in Sharjah’s schools.
“We aim to measure the impact of using modern technology in the learning process as well as receive feedback from teachers about the tablets, and how they are finding the use of smart applications in Arabic language teaching,” said Badria Al Ali, Lughati’s manager.
