TAJWEED LEARNING EDUCATIONAL COURSEWARE FOR CHILDREN

It is compulsory for every Muslim to pray fives time a day as it is second pillar of
Islam. In fact, children also have to pray as early as ten years old. Thus, parents
should ensure that their children are able to pray with correct pronunciation of prayer
recitation. Prayer recitation should pronounce correctly with its stipulated attributes
called Tajweed. However, a research conducted found many children has problem in
rule of Tajweed. The survey result proves that many of students and children has
problem in Tajweed rule either in pronunciation or the meaning of each rule. Also,
children dislike learning facts and theory therefore by using multimedia and graphic
tutorial approaches; it might enhance the level of excitement to learn and the also
level of understanding on Tajweed rule. Thus, the project is aims to develop a
courseware for children age five to twelve years old with the integration of
objectivism teaching theory and multimedia elements. In addition, in order to
visualize the pronunciation to the users, the 2D approach will be used to make the
pronunciation clear compared to lesson in classroom. The scope of the project is only
covered Introduction to Tajweed, Hijaiyah letter and Nun and Tanwin classes. The
system is being developed by using all information gathered from surveys, interviews
and researches. Bahasa Melayu is chosen to be the intermediate language in the
courseware. The Instructional System Design methodology is been chosen to develop
the courseware.