Teaching Linguistic Structures to Non-Native Arabic Speaker: Problems and Solutions (Applied to Specialized Institutes in The Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

Abstract: This study was conducted on third-level Arabic language students who are non-native speakers in four specialized units and institutes in Saudi universities, with the aim of identifying the problems of teaching linguistic structures. To reach a solution to these problems, the researchers in this study relied on questionnaire and interviews to collect data, following the descriptive analytical approach, and the study sample was (54) learners and (36) teachers, and the most prominent results were: that one of the most prominent problems of using the mother tongue is mixing the definition And indefiniteness, and most of the subjects face difficulty in assigning verbs to pronouns, and that the problems of teaching grammatical structures are among the most common problems in teaching linguistic elements to non-Arabic speakers. The researchers recommended the need to give priority to functional grammar over educational grammar in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, the need to pay attention to definition and indefiniteness in developing curricula and implementing them in teaching, and the importance of giving classroom exercises their due respect during lesson time.

Key words: Problems-linguistic structures-templates-non-Arabic speakers