Weak Forms: How Do Arabic-speaking Learners of English Use Them?

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.