The role of corpus linguistics in teaching Arabic as a second language (دور لسانيات المـدونات في تعليم اللغة العربية كلغة ثانية)

Abstract

Grammar and parsing are among the most difficult branches of the Arabic language for its native learners and native speakers, as well as for its non-native speakers. The reason for this is that the Arabic language is considered one of the languages freed from syntactic stability (Free-word order language), unlike languages that are fixed in terms of The order of sentence components (fixed-word order languages), such as the English language, is an example, but not limited to it. Determining the grammatical functions of sentence components depends on the meaning to be expressed. Therefore, Ibn Jinni defined parsing as “expressing meanings with words,” unlike the English language, in which the functions of grammatical compounds are determined. The location of the compound within the sentence, This research aims to activate the descriptive approach based on corpus linguistic in teaching Arabic for non-native speakers by exposing the learner to an extensive number of examples and citations representing the linguistic level (classical language -modern standard - colloquial) he is learning. In this waylearners will master grammatical concepts, they can identifyand use them intuitively. Also, corpus examples and citations reflect the social and cultural aspects of the Arabic society, especially if the learner is not an Arabic speaker. The research discussed teaching of the phenomenon of specification in the Arabic language in a descriptive approach from the citations of Qur’an corpus, and then the descriptive study was be compared with the prescriptive approach in terms all issues related to this grammatical phenomenon