Question-answer interaction learning method in Imam Ibn Al-Senni’s Book Riyadhat Al-Mutaallemeen (Learners’ Mindgame)

Abstract

This study aimed to elucidate the educational value of Ibn Al-Senni’s book Riyadhat Al-Mutaallemeen (Learners’ Mindgame) and the significance of question-answer interaction learning style as evidenced in the abovementioned book. Using the deductive descriptive approach, the study comes in an introduction and three chapters. Chapter one introduced Ibn Al-Senni and his book Riyadhat Al-Mutaallemeen (Learners’ Mind game). Chapter two discussed the importance of question-answer interaction in the learning process. Chapter three focused on Ibn Al-Senni’s question-answer interaction learning method. The study revealed that Riyadhat Al-Mutaallemeen is a valuable book and a well-established rich-source educational reference concerning in the pursuit of knowledge and learner-teacher ethics among others. The book mainly highlights the question-answer interaction learning method, with particular focus on how learners can ask questions and how teachers respond accordingly. Ibn Al-Senni’s question-answer interaction method had many aspects: question management, question ethics, question timing, question answer techniques, response ethics, question response principles, learners’ question priority, learner’s question rights and teacher’s response rights.