ABSTRACT
The teaching of Arabic in Arab universities is adversely affected by a number of schortcomings. Although some of the more traditional scholars in the Arab world would deny that this State of affairs should be the source of any worry and would argue that the teaching of grammar should be solely guided by the methods and theories of the ancient Arab grammarians, it is undeniable that the standard of the mastery of Arabie among university students (hereafter: students), whether majoring in Arab studies or not, has been dropping continuously and drastically over the last few decades. Apart from the social and economic reasons for this drop and for the general apathy among students towards their language, the linguistic aspect of the problem deserves special attention.
