UNDERSTANDING PRAYER RECITATION THROUGH LANGUAGE GAMES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

In this age of Artificial Intelligent or AI, teachers' teaching should be in line with current developments. Nowadays, the level of mastery and understanding of the meaning of prayer reading among the younger generation is becoming more and more worrying. There are even a handful of Islamic Education teachers facing great challenges in their daily teaching and learning process. There are also weaknesses of a few teachers from the aspect of pedagogy and the use of teaching aids (BBM) in teaching. This study aims to identify the importance of language game applications using AI towards improving students' abilities to master prayer recitation and translation. The methodology used in this study is a qualitative study through a literature review by analyzing previous studies. The findings of the study show that students are weak in mastering the meaning of prayer reading, especially surah al-Fatihah which is one of the pillars of prayer. Based on certain surveys, it was found that this AI game can foster interest and increase students' motivation in learning something more effectively. Overall, this study looks at the importance of language game applications using AI to achieve active and flexible learning strategies among students. Therefore, the researcher suggests that this study be developed to the stage of building a language game module using AI to improve the understanding of prayer recitation.