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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. |
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