The Status of Arabic Language in the Social media (Challenges and Proposals): Facebook as a case study

Abstract

This research focuses on reading the transformations and errors that occur to the Arabic language on Facebook. The research aims at focusing on the status of the Arabic language in the social networks, like Facebook in the Palestinian Territories. It includes linguistic, grammatical, spelling, and other errors. The researcher uses the descriptive analytical method, which helps in knowing an accurate description of subject and its conditions and dimensions. Results show that Arabic language status is disastrous on FB, and it has grammatical, linguistic, and spelling errors. And they use colloquial instead of classical. Researcher suggests that the Arabic language must be a compulsory module for the students, who are in schools and universities, and they must learn how to write language correctly while using social media. To develop their abilities, they must read novels, study linguistics and memorize vocabularies. In the same way, Arab academies who are specialized in linguistics must develop their roles, and linguistic discourse in the line with technology, and sciences.