Arabic Language and Challenges of the Era: Prospects and Aspirations

Abstract

There is no doubt that the challenges facing Arabic language have become a concern that worries every Arab who is jealous of his language and identity, due to their severe effects on our children’s language, thought, and personality formation. Therefore, scholars of the Arab nation, university professors, school teachers, and those interested came together to confront these challenges. Conferences, seminars, and workshops were held to discuss them and propose solutions and remedies. Newspapers and magazines warned of their effects on the Arab nation, as they had become a threat to its reality and future. Despite this, these challenges still there, and we have not witnessed tangible steps to reduce the risk of decline in the use of the Standard Arabic language and its neglect at the local and Arab levels. This research addresses the challenges facing Arabic language in our Arab world with the aim of identifying their causes, effects and proposing ways to confront them. One of the most prominent of these challenges is globalization, as the globalization of the language emerged through the dominance of the English language and the promotion of its status at the expense of the Arabic language. The negative effects of Westernization have appeared in the identity and attitudes of our children, in addition to the widespread poor performance of students in Arabic language skills, which has become a phenomenon that calls for serious and careful attention because it has become a threat to the Arab nation in its identity, belief, and connection to its history and civilization. The research suggested ways to confront these challenges by activating the role of: the state, the university, the school, the family, and society, leading to suggesting some recommendations including: developing a strategy to enable the Arabic language to regain its sovereignty and effective role in civilizational construction, starting with issuing official decisions, legislation related to that, and developing awareness of the importance of the role Arabic language in strengthening the identity of the Arab nation and rooting its thought and culture, and ending with circulating standard Arabic in schools, universities, institutions and among members of society, by practicing the correct linguistic expression of our opinions and ideas in our scientific, practical and social life.