“Arabic is a language of rich morphology and complex syntax” [Al-Sughaiyer and Al-Kharashi 2004]. It is classified into three main types: Classical Arabic; which is the language of Islam that used for over 1500 years. Modern Standard Arabic; which is one of the six official languages of United Nations, and most of Arabic NLP researches are focused on Colloquial Arabic; which is the spoken Arabic language. It is irregular and differs among countries and regions.…
Although the Arabic language existed within the pre-Islamic Era, Arabic writing spread dramatically after the revelation of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Muslims. The revelation resulted in the spread of Islam, which resulted in more countries adapting Arabic as its native language. From Arabic, other languages came to exist, such as Persian, Turkish, and Urdu. The letters of these languages juxtaposed that of the Arabic language, along with additional letters, which gave each its newness. These inscriptions became a critical part of providing insight into history, culture, and social aspects of the Islamic period.…
Ursula Lindsey wrote in this article about changing the teaching language to Arabic in Qatar University. He said: “many Qataris have welcomed the move as a validation of their mother tongue; others worry that it will weaken graduates ' job prospects.” (2012) He, also mentions that some student are not efficient in English so they have to spend several years in the foundation program before attending their degree. Moreover, it is mentioned in this article that the type of the text book will be affected after the new dicsion.…
- Muslim works of philosophy, literature, mathematics, and the sciences elevated the Arabic language to the language of the educated and wise…
Arabic is my first language, and it is the language that I always write with. There are many differences between Arabic and English. Fore example, in Arabic we write from right to left. And there are many different things too. I have tried to write in English many time but I have some difficulties with it.…
Versteegh, C. H. M. (1997). The Arabic language. New York: Columbia University Press.Top of Form…
**** feels that the focus on reading and writing was necessary due to the difficulty of changing from Arabic to Latin script and also changing the direction of the text to left to right. Only occasionally did the class get the opportunity to watch a video and hear spoken English and then have the opportunity to discuss in English what they had seen. There were no opportunities to hear or speak English outside of the classroom.…
Have you ever found yourself asking questions about another culture? I have been reading articles about the Arab culture. The articles that I have read, describes different types of races in the Arab culture. Now that you have more information about the different cultures you will begin to understand a whole lot more about the Arab people as a whole.…
Any language plays a great role in the life of society and the problems existing in the languages still preserve attention of different psychologists, ethno graphs, linguists and grammarians.…
The aim of this first class was to provide a very general introduction to the Arabic language, how it is written, how it is pronounced, and to teach us to say some basic introductions and greetings. We also had a brief introduction to the Arabic alphabet. We were fully immersed in the language from the start as the teacher gave the class completely in Arabic.…
Learning English language is considered among one of the social and academic compulsory needs. Speakers use language fluently with flexibility receive praises of others. In gaining command over English there are some essential areas like background information of different geners and situations where it is used, proper understanding of grammatical rules, vocabulary and so on. The proper use of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, stress pattern, intonations and phrasal verbs help one’s language to make it more fluent and flexible, more accurate and conversational.…
In this paper we have dealt with the general definitions of morphology, morphemes in both types: free and bound, and focused on the bound one, its classifications in Arabic and English, then we stated the morphological processes under which the bound morpheme goes which result in morphemic shifts in the same language and across both languages, and finally concluding that despite the similarities between Arabic and English at morphemic level-in terms of derivational and inflectional features- Arabic represents a more difficult and peculiar challenge for native speakers and foreign learners but this does not lessen its richness, depth and gracefulness.…
English as lingua franca has comfortably taken its role in business, science, engineering and also in various cultural fields. People like Widdowson, Seidlehofer and Jenkins have pointed out that use of English as lingua franca has become the fastest growing function in the world .Most of the scientific ,technological and academic information in the world is articulated in English and 80% of all the information hoard in electronic retrieval system is in English(crystal,1997:106).with avant-garde economic growth ELF along with it has emerged as the most vibrant field of study English is the conduit between people or breath of the people belonging to diverse fields. At the same time well established sociolinguistic fact is that language are shaped by their users and nowadays L2 learners are more in number than that of native…
Arabic is the official language of UAE but English is second language which is used in schools, universities, Commerce and trade.…
All correspondences between offices in different countries and also between political leaders of various countries are in English. This linking factor also tells of the importance of the English language. In spite of the growth of the Internet in various languages, English is the mainstay of the Internet users. This is the language in which most of the information and websites are available. It is very difficult to translate each and every relevant webpage into the language of various countries. With Internet becoming very important in education, English language is bound to grow. Thus the importance of English as a language is emphasized.…