اللسانيات النظرية من وجهة نظر طلبة اللغة العربية بجامعة جنوبي شرقي سريالنكا دراسة وصفية تحليليلة

Abstract

Theoretical linguistics has a dynamic role in studying languages in scientific and descriptive manners. Describing how those languages are actually used, many sciences contribute to it in language service. The European languages benefited from it to describe those languages phonetically, morphologically, synthetically, and semantically. Further, the applied linguistics has an important role in qualifying some fields such as language teaching, translation, and others. But there is in the Arab world a stranger view regarding acceptance of the linguistics and realizing its facts, fields, and its functions. However, they prefer traditional Arabic grammar. This phenomenon is with the students of SEUSL Arabic learners as they learned Arabic by the ways of traditional Grammar methods such as Tajwid, Sarf, and Nahw in preuniversity stage and the linguistics is being introduced after entering the university. Those Students are divided into two groups toward accepting theoretical linguistics. One group wants to continue learning it along with traditional Arabic grammar while another one is sufficient with learn Arabic by using traditional Grammar. Therefore, the two researchers wanted to conduct systematic research to investigate this phenomenon by using qualitative and quantitative methods. They distributed a questionnaire to know how those students differentiate between linguistics and Arabic traditional grammars. The interviews were carried out with lecturers to understand the situation and the problems of teaching and learning theoretical linguistics. The study reached that they didn’t realize the fact of the linguistics, and they could not differentiate clearly between the linguistics and traditional Arabic grammar. Also the reasons behind this phenomenon are the weakness in language skills, especially in reading skill, lack in resource of vocabulary, concentrating with the other subjects, teacher’s part in preparing lecturers of linguistics, and the learning materials which suits with Sri Lankan learners’ situation.