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.
The command of Arabic dialect does not necessarily mean mastery of standard Arabic. Therefore, this study examines non-Arab learners problems resulting from their difficulties to differentiate between standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. This descriptive study aims at diagnosing factors influencing non-Arab learners to believe that there is no difference between standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects; The study describes why non-Arab learners believe that there is no difference between standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. Among initial findings of the descriptive analyses used in this study is that non-Arab learners difficulties in making difference between standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects are among major causes of unfavorable mastery of standard Arabic as well as spread of other Arabic dialects.