Language Performance Weakness of the First Year Female Students in the Arabic Department: Aspects and Treatments

Abstract

This research aims to figure out the reasons of cognitional and functional weakness in communication, reading, and comprehension that the researcher notes while teaching Literature Criticism for the first year students at Yala Islamic University. He conducts this study to identify the relationships between these aspects of the law performance and the pre- university stage and getting an insufficient preparation and the role of the social and psychological effects. The researcher uses the descriptive analytical method by putting a sample of five female students under observation for an entire semester; to investigate the aspects and the reasons of their low studying achievement, and then he provides some solutions suit their situation. The researcher concluded that getting improper preparation that qualified them to study at the university, the indifference with practicing the language, being afraid of error, introversion and some other reasons contributed in this lingual weakness. The researcher also suggests conducting similar studies on different groups of students to see if this weakness is exist only in this sample or it could be found in other students too.