A Contrastive Study of English - Arabic Verb Morphology

The present study aims at comparing and contrasting English and Arabic verb morphology to determine the points where they differ. These differences are the main cause of difficulty in the learning of the second language. Teaching will be directed at those points where there are structural differences. This, in turn, determines what the teacher has to teach and what the learner has to learn. The whole focus of the present analysis will be confined to verb morphology in both languages