الملخص الإنجليزي
The present study aimed to identify the reading tendencies of non-Arabic speaking learners at the advanced level, and from what sources they obtain their reading materials from. In addition to that, what are the most important areas that they tend to read. Also, are there statistically significant differences attributable to gender, age, specialization, academic qualification, and years of language study based on the readers' tendencies?
The study used a questionnaire to determine reading trends. Its stability was calculated using the Alpha K and Nabakh method, which averaged.986(). Then it was applied to the research sample, which numbered (28) male and female students from various institutes, centers and educational institutions in the Sultanate.
The study reached several results, the most important of which are: The sources from which non-Arabic-speaking learners obtain their reading materials were ranked in descending order as follows (the university and the Internet are in the first place, then the purchasing library, colleagues, and the home in third and finally other resources.
In addition, the most important areas of reading tendencies among the respondents were, in this order, politics, history, economics, and philosophy. It was found that there are statistically significant differences due to the age variable between the different age groups in the family domain. There are differences of statistical significance in favor of the specialization of the humanities in the educational, social, scientific, agricultural, recreational, and philosophical fields. There are also statistically significant differences due to the variable years of language study in the social field.
The study made some recommendations, including informing teachers and officials in centers, institutes and colleges of the learner's preferences. This is to include some fields such as political, historical, economical, philosophical, artistic, entertainment and literary in their educational materials. The study also presented other research proposals, including an analytical study of educational materials taught to non-Arabic speakers in light of the literacy tendencies of the learners.
