Teaching letters, pronunciation and writing, in Algerian Quranic schools (the Ouled Nail region as a model)

Abstract

The Ouled Nail region is rich in a wonderful educational heritage, especially in the Quranic schools for teaching boys, since before the French colonial era. The region is distinguished by a special educational method, through which the boy learns the principles and the Arabic alphabet. He begins by learning the letters in performance and writing, then repeats them accompanied by the three movements: damma, fatha and kasra.

This study comes to shed light on an aspect of the educational heritage in the region, as it includes a wonderful method for teaching letters and their movements that should not be lost or disappear, but rather must be preserved in order to analyze and study them, and to identify their scientific benefits in consolidating the principles of Arabic.