This paper attempts to investigate the way Arab learners of English
deal with weak form items and the difficulty they encounter in using such
grammatical items in context. This problem was approached from two
different avenues. I therefore carried
out two separate tests. The first
test, the pronunciation test, showed that Arab learners have a serious
problem with pronouncing weak form items. The second test, the
identification test, also demonstrated that Arab learners had a problem
with identifying weak form words in context.
