The Analysis of Linguistic Error of Fourth level Korean Learners of Arabic at the Language Center/ University of Jordan

الملخص

Arabic language is considered as a derivative, morphological language, which distinguishes it from other languages. Hence, any new learner of the Arabic language is expected to commit linguistic mistakes as a result of misunderstanding the language in its different levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, spelling, and semantics). Therefore, this study aims to systematically analyze errors committed by learners of Arabic in the fourth level at the Language Center in the University of Jordan in accordance with the practical approaches: the Contrastive Analysis Approach, and the Error Analysis Approach, in which practical linguists use them to deal with the problems of teaching Arabic as foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of the writings of 30 Korean students, both male and female, from the fourth level at the language Center in the academic year 2013/2014. This level was chosen due to the fact that a fourth level student is expected to have the skill of writing, the ability to express him/herself through writing and speaking, and a sufficient amount of vocabulary. This fact relayed on different sources in addition to the researchers’ experience in this field. The descriptive analytical approach was used in this study. As a result of this study, many errors were found in different linguistic levels. It was also found that one error leads to other errors, such as: phonological, morphological, structural, and lexical errors.