Mastering of Tarannum al-Quran: An Analysis on Participants of al-Quran Reciting Competition in Klang and Sepang Secondary School

Abstract

This research has been conducted based on 66 respondents who had joined ‘Majlis Tilawah al-Quran Sekolah-Sekolah’ under the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The main purpose of this research was conducted to analyse respondents’ mastering in Tarannum al-Quran. In this research, the researcher disscussed the elements that had been judged in the marking scheme of the Tilawah al-Quran Competition. Next, this research contains questionnaire which contains objectives and oral tests. Overall, the research findings of objectives test found that a total of 5 respondents (7.58%) got excellent result with grade A, followed by 13 respondents (19.7%) grade B, 10 respondents (15.2%) grade C, 9 respondents (13.6%) grade D and 29 respondents (43.9%) grade E. The analysis of mastering in Tarannum al-Quran recitation, which was the oral tests has the overall mean of 1.93, which was in the low level. The result of analysis inference that used Spearman correlation coefficients decided to make decision that there is very low connection between respondents’ understanding and mastery in terms of Tarannum al-Quran. In conclusion, the participants of tilawah (MTQSS) achievement need to be given more attention such as basic workshop Tahsin al-Quran and recording in order to produce great of Tarannum al-Quran recitation.