An Analysis of Media Discourse Produced by Non-Arabic Speakers of Arabic in light of the Text Syntax: The American Discourse as an Applied Model

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to shed light on American media discourse produced in the Arabic, in order to identify its linguistic characteristics and investigate effective strategies for enhancing learners' abilities to acquire proper language communication. This is accomplished through analyzing the discourse in the context of text linguistics or textual linguistics, in order to pinpoint linguistic usage problems and work on overcoming them using appropriate teaching strategies.

Methods: The study used the analytical approach. It also used a performance monitoring tool to determine the discourse problems among non-native speakers of Arabic based on face-to-face conversations.

Results: The study results showed that textual analysis of the linguistic discourse is important for non-native speakers of Arabic since it takes the text as its launching board. The results also showed those those non-native speakers of Arabic struggled with a number of linguistics misusages such as negation, sentence structuring and verb forms.   The results also highlighted the semantic relationships that the analyzed sample utilized to achieve textual semantic coherence.

Conclusions: The study recommends paying more attention to the importance of monitoring and analyzing the linguistic features to achieve the most prominent goal of developing tools for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. The study also highlights the notion that analyzing the spoken language of speakers is extremely important to show the linguistic needs of the learner and help in developing plans for the learning process.