Students’ Gender and Age as Factors of Success in Arabic Language Literacy of Junior Secondary School 3 Students of Ogun State

This study investigated gender and age as determinants of success in Arabic Language. Two null hypotheses were tested. Achievement test was designed for gathering of data. The validity of the achievement test was tested using the expert opinion method while the reliability was tested using test-retest method. 100 students were randomly sampled from 10 schools while four Arabic language aspects areas were tested: comprehension, translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic and sentence structure. This study revealed that students’ gender does not influence their academic achievement in Arabic literacy. Furthermore, that age has great influence on Arabic literacy achievement of students. The study concluded with some recommendations towards improving Arabic literacy in Nigeria generally, in Ogun State specifically and towards making the study of the language attractive to the female gender.