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Journal of Arabic Language Specialized Research

About the Journal :

Journal of Arabic Language for Specialized Research is published quarterly by the Malaysian Institute of Science and Development , it is devoted to the publishing of researches concerning sciences and arts of Arabic language such as Grammar, rhetoric, metrics, prose and poetry, phonetics, modern linguistics, dialects, Arabic calligraphy, Arabization, and literary critical stylistic studies.
The journal is a research platform for scholars, teachers, and students to enrich the Arabic Library with further sound researches and precise studies for the purpose of unveiling the secrets of this language which is regarded as a miracle on its own through the Quranic text that remains a great challenge to all languages’ texts. However, the research efforts made on Arabic language and its relevant sciences as well as the unveiling of its beauty in the past and present are merely attempts to reveal the secret of its essence to persuade linguists and litterateurs of the reasons why Allah, the creator of all languages, has chosen Arabic to be the last language for his messenger Mohamed (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) and his miraculous immortal book till doomsday.



OBSTACLES TO LEARNING THE ARABIC ALPHABET FOR NON - ARABIC SPEAKERS


This research sought through the descriptive field approach to the knowledge of the origin of the Arabic character, and the stages that are established, as well as the obstacles to learning the best image of the Arabic-speaking learners. The main question of the research is: What are the obstacles that prevent Arabic students from learning Arabic in a way that is required by non-Arabic speakers? The researcher presented a questionnaire to a sample of 40 students from the Language Center at the International Islamic University in Malaysia and conducted interviews with ten teachers at the same center. The researcher found the results of the most important: The impact of Arabs in other Arab nations in the establishment of the Arabic alphabet, and the passage of the alphabet in five phases, the most recent phase of the alphabet, it became clear that the similarity in the geometry of some characters, and the system of reluctance does not cause a problem among the sample of students, In this, the sample agreed that students, teachers and teachers that the biggest handicap or problem lies in the characters that say and do not write, or those that write and do not utter. The research was concluded with a recommendation and proposal.

Keywords: obstructions, alphabetical, geometric, separate, connected, right, north