Open AccessEnglish–Arabic Contrastive Analysis Redefinition of Goals
Author(s) -
May Al-Shaikhli,
Ibrahim Abdel-Latif Shalabi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of language teaching and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0684
pISSN - 1798-4769
DOI - 10.4304/jltr.2.6.1337-1345
Subject(s) - arabic , contrastive analysis , linguistics , natural language processing , psychology , computer science , philosophy
The purpose of this paper is to assess the current status of English-Arabic Contrastive Analysis (CA) in Iraqi universities & to suggest some redefinitions of the goals of this analysis accordingly. A sample of 25 theses that have been randomly chosen has been investigated and chronologically appended. The historical background will have a bird's eye view on the various phases CA in general has undergone so far. One of the limitations is consulting English references only, admitting that Arab scholars did have their own contribution as well