The Influence of Subject and Predicate in Arabic Text Understanding

Understanding is a key objective of reading activities. The reality today, there are many Arabic language students unable to understand the text well. This inability caused from weak knowledge of grammar. Therefore, this study aimed at fi nding out the students ‘understanding of a text and analyzing the infl uence of the subject and the predicate element in students’ understanding. This study used qualitative methods with case studies. Six students of Bachelor of Arabic Language in Education (ISMBADP) at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) has been a participant in this study. Data collected from understanding text documents and interviews. The results showed study participants can understand the text well. This interview shows the infl uence of the subject and predicate element in the text understanding. Thus, the elements of the subject and the predicate is an important aspect that should be emphasized in the teaching and learning of Arabic text understanding other than vocabulary, because it is a basic element of the structure of sentences.