The Relationship Between Teachers’ Personality and Teaching Competency Among Arabic Language Teachers in Malaysia

Abstract

This study sought to establish the correlation between the teacher personality and the teaching competence amongst the Arabic language educators in the Malaysian schools. Quantitative method was taken wherein a correlational survey design was applied on 125 Arabic language teachers. The collected data was in the form of a structured questionnaire with two principal variables that included the personality of teachers of the Arabic language and competence to teach. The descriptive analysis showed that the two variables were very high to high. In the meantime, Pearson correlation analysis revealed that teacher personality and teaching competence were related with moderate but a highly significant degree (r = 0.661, p < 0.001). These results establish the confirmation that the personality of teachers has a major role in the contribution of the successfulness of the Arabic language teaching. This research has implications to ensure that personnel development of personality is incorporated as a section of the teaching career training under the global efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning of the Arabic language in schools in the country.