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The Dean of the College of Arabic Language and Social Studies at the university, Professor Dr. Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Saud, affirmed that the international conference “The Arabic Language in Universities Between Heritage and Contemporaneity,” organized by the college, comes from the university's belief in its vital role in promoting interest in the Arabic language and its sciences.
The conference included a number of scientific sessions with the participation of researchers from multiple countries, who showed great interest in the conference's issues. The conference addressed three main themes: terminology issues, methodology issues in Arabic, and the Arabic language and multiple specializations.
Dr. Ibrahim bin Sulaiman Al-Lahim, head of the Arabic Language and Literature Department, confirmed that the conference produced a number of recommendations. Researchers from various Arab universities presented robust research papers with diverse content and topics, which were enhanced by rich and informed discussions. The recommendations included, most notably, the necessity of standardizing terminology across all specializations at the university level and utilizing terminological diversity in building a unified conceptual terminological system that reflects each knowledge specialization related to Arabic linguistics separately. It also included utilizing Arabic grammar in a systematic way that pays great attention to induction on one hand and actual usage on the other, with the necessity of simplifying it within a pedagogical teaching framework, in line with modern educational approaches. Furthermore, it called for finding frameworks and methods that make teaching grammar appealing, so that this positively reflects on the teaching of the Arabic language in terms of conception, methodology, and understanding.
Researchers also emphasized the need to ensure that the approved translations of methodological issues in Arabic language teaching are sound and successful, while stressing the importance of openness to other disciplines that would facilitate conceptual and methodological approximations between Arabic and Western perspectives. This includes investing in intellectual overlap and activity overlap in educational approaches to the Arabic language in university institutions, and the necessity of investing intellectually and methodologically from the reality of the Arabic linguistic heritage, while avoiding projections as much as possible. It also requires paying great attention to the historical, intellectual, philosophical, and linguistic precedence within which this linguistic heritage arose, alongside equipping other scientific disciplines with an Arabic conceptual terminology system that contributes to educational investment in the Arabic language and knowledge economics.,
Researchers also emphasized the importance of achieving epistemological and procedural convergence between fields of knowledge, and reconsidering the concepts of "transfer" within the Arab perspective and "dissemination" within the Western perspective. Attention should be paid to combining them through the act of inspiration, which achieves a comprehensive and inclusive medium between the two perspectives. Additionally, it is necessary to focus on coordination and integration regarding issues of terminology in its relation to methodology and other knowledge disciplines. This is from the perspective of conceptions, concepts, methodology, and procedures that qualify the teaching of the Arabic language in university institutions to live its existence and epistemological reality within the premises of heritage and the requirements of contemporaneity. It is important to view rhetorical studies from a new perspective that gives rhetoric its due in terms of the comprehensiveness of discourse and the comprehensiveness of other intellectual intersections, and to value the efforts of media and place them in their historical and intellectual context.
The conferees also called for the continuation of this type of studies on the Arabic language in university institutions, in pursuit of achieving the goals envisioned from them.
