Abstract:
Applied Linguistics is concerned with the study of the learners’ mistakes in the field of
teaching languages. It considers the error an educational necessity since committing errors is
regarded as the first step for learning. Moreover, the learners’ mistakes represent an indicator
of the imbalance in the educational system, and a measure that investigates the educational
curricula and programs in order to suit the learners’ needs improving their performance, and
facilitating the process of education.
Thus, this research aims to analyze the grammatical mistakes committed by the Arabic
language students in the light of the Applied Linguistics. This discipline seems useful in
providing the teaching languages field with the analysis methods of modern errors in the
identification of the errors and their types ,their sources, and their interpretation. And then it
examines the reasons for their treatment , looking for solutions through a scientific method
that overtakes the conventional approach establised on the error and the direct correction.
The study includes theoretical aspects of the research problem (grammatical error),
focusing on its causes, its manifestations, and how the linguists tackled the language
previously and recently. Then it discusses their attitudes towards the error and the standards
used in the correction or the error, exploring the applied linguistics significances in the
treatment of the errors. Whereas, the practical study was conducted on six dissertations of the
Master Students of the Arabic language in the Algerian universities. It analyzes their errors in
different sides according to the methods of modern linguistic analysis.
The research deduced that there are certain types of grammatical errors which are
common among students, such as vowels, modal verbs, prepositions...These results proved
also the efficiency of the analysis method in language teaching for various phases ; from the
first phase of the learners till their advanced level. This approach attained good results in the
language analysis (internally). In addidtion, the comparative analysis was so available in the
detection of some undeveloped patterns and negative habits, originating from the intervention
of the dialects spoken in the Algerian society.
Based on these results, the study presented a set of suggestions and solutions which
are considered to be able to contain the phenomenon of grammatical error among the students,
and to raise the level of the Arabic language teaching before and during the university phase.
