The Implementation of the Ummi Method in Improving Students’ Al-Qur’an Reading Skills at MI Plus Al-Hamid Banjarmasin

Abstract

This study describes the implementation of the Ummi method in improving students’ Qur’an-reading skills at MI Plus Al-Hamid Banjarmasin and identifies the factors that support or hinder its implementation. It uses a qualitative field-research design, drawing on observation, interviews, and documentation as reported in the underlying thesis. The findings indicate that instruction follows seven stages: opening, apperception or muroja’ah, concept introduction, concept understanding, skills practice, evaluation, and closing. Teachers use Ummi books and visual teaching aids, model correct recitation, provide repeated practice, listen to students individually, and record progress. The process is associated in the reported field findings with better fluency, more careful recitation, increased confidence, and learning discipline, although the study does not provide standardized pre- and post-test scores from which a numerical effect can be calculated. Supporting factors include trained teachers, an integrated learning system, learning resources, student motivation, peer encouragement, and parental support. The main constraints are differences in students’ initial abilities and student absence. The study’s contribution is a context-specific account of how standardized instructional stages, formative correction, and school–family cooperation work together in an Islamic elementary-school setting