IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/eltjnl/v8y2015i5p33.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Education Context and English Teaching and Learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: An Overview

Author

Listed:
  • Oqab Alrashidi
  • Huy Phan

Abstract

This paper discusses the education context and English teaching and learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The paper is organised into five main sections. The first section offers a brief glance at the social, religious, economic, and political context in KSA. The second section provides an overview of the education system in KSA, which includes a brief explanation of the history of education, a discussion of the role of government in modern education, and a description of the administration of education in the country. The third section presents information about English teaching and learning in public and higher education in KSA, while the fourth gives insights into the challenges and difficulties students face when learning English. The last section focuses on the importance of learning English in KSA.

Suggested Citation

  • Oqab Alrashidi & Huy Phan, 2015. "Education Context and English Teaching and Learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: An Overview," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(5), pages 1-33, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:8:y:2015:i:5:p:33
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/download/47946/25732
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/view/47946
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Omar Salem Bashehab, 2013. "Status of Knowledge Based Economy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: An Analysis," Journal of Social and Development Sciences, AMH International, vol. 4(6), pages 268-277.
    2. Roland G. Fryer & Steven D. Levitt, 2010. "An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 2(2), pages 210-240, April.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Iman El-Nabawi Abdel Wahed Shaalan & Ayman Shaaban Khalifa Ahmad, 2024. "EFL Majors' Attitudes toward Distance Learning via MOOCs: A Comparative Study between Egypt and Saudi Arabia," World Journal of English Language, Sciedu Press, vol. 14(3), pages 337-337, May.
    2. Hassan M. Kassem, 2019. "The Impact of Student-Centered Instruction on EFL Learners’ Affect and Achievement," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(1), pages 134-134, January.
    3. Maysoon Dakhiel, 2017. "Factors Affecting the Quality of English Language Teaching in Preparatory Year, University of Jeddah," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(7), pages 1-43, July.
    4. Ayman Ankawi, 2023. "Saudi Arabian University Students' Perspectives on Issues and Solutions in Academic Writing Learning," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 16(8), pages 1-1, August.
    5. Nurah Saleh AlFares, 2024. "The Challenges of Effective English Language Teaching in Saudi Schools," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 17(10), pages 1-96, October.
    6. Hanadi Fahad Alothman & Lina Bashatah & Abdulaziz Salem Aldossari & Mousa S. Alfaifi & Abdullah Almutairi & Abdulrahman A. Alshuaibi & Hayat Abdulrahman Alajlan & Safana Aseri & Ahmad Yahya Aseery & N, 2024. "How Saudi parents rationalize the choice of school for their children," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bottazzi, Laura & Lusardi, Annamaria, 2021. "Stereotypes in financial literacy: Evidence from PISA," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Oakley, Claire M. & Pekrun, Reinhard & Stoet, Gijsbert, 2024. "Sex differences of school grades in childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal analysis," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    3. José de Sousa & Guillaume Hollard, 2021. "From Micro to Macro Gender Differences: Evidence from Field Tournaments," Post-Print hal-03389151, HAL.
    4. Oberrauch, Luis & Kaiser, Tim, 2020. "Economic competence in early secondary school: Evidence from a large-scale assessment in Germany," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 35(C).
    5. Huong Thu Le & Ha Trong Nguyen, 2018. "The evolution of the gender test score gap through seventh grade: new insights from Australia using unconditional quantile regression and decomposition," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 7(1), pages 1-42, December.
    6. Adamecz, Anna & Jerrim, John & Pingault, Jean-Baptiste & Shure, Nikki, 2023. "Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment," IZA Discussion Papers 16180, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Simone Balestra & Aurélien Sallin & Stefan C. Wolter, 2023. "High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 58(2), pages 633-665.
    8. Dickerson, Andy & McIntosh, Steven & Valente, Christine, 2015. "Do the maths: An analysis of the gender gap in mathematics in Africa," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 1-22.
    9. Natalia Nollenberger & Núria Rodríguez-Planas & Almudena Sevilla, 2016. "The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(5), pages 257-261, May.
    10. Clelia Cascella & Maria Pampaka & Julian Williams, 2024. "Gender Attitudes Within and Between European Countries: Regional Variations Matter," SAGE Open, , vol. 14(3), pages 21582440241, August.
    11. Lippmann, Quentin & Senik, Claudia, 2018. "Math, girls and socialism," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(3), pages 874-888.
    12. Nagore Iriberri & Pedro Rey-Biel, 2019. "Competitive Pressure Widens the Gender Gap in Performance: Evidence from a Two-stage Competition in Mathematics," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(620), pages 1863-1893.
    13. Muñoz, Juan Sebastián, 2018. "The economics behind the math gender gap: Colombian evidence on the role of sample selection," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 368-391.
    14. Golsteyn, Bart H.H. & Schils, Trudie, 2014. "Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors," IZA Discussion Papers 8201, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    15. Laïla Oubenaïssa & Louise Poirier, 2021. "Portrait du Québec pour le domaine des mathématiques," CIRANO Project Reports 2021rp-19, CIRANO.
    16. García-Echalar, Andrés & Poblete, Sebastián & Rau, Tomás, 2024. "Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    17. Jia, Ning, 2021. "Do stricter high school math requirements raise college STEM attainment?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    18. Alicia Adserà & Aditi Bhowmick, 2022. "English Proficiency, Gender and the Occupations of Childhood Immigrants in the US," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 43(3), pages 321-344, December.
    19. Michael Baker & Kevin Milligan, 2016. "Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(4), pages 399-441.
    20. Agboola, Mary Oluwatoyin & Bekun, Festus Victor & Joshua, Udi, 2021. "Pathway to environmental sustainability: Nexus between economic growth, energy consumption, CO2 emission, oil rent and total natural resources rent in Saudi Arabia," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:8:y:2015:i:5:p:33. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.