Al-Azkiya : International Journal Languages and Education

This paper discusses the requirements for designing Arabic language modulefor specificpurposes (Tourism). The emergence of the Arabic for specific language has manifested in the late period of this century, and it contains manyissues that can be remedied through continuous study in this field, and the problems such as: the lack of experts in ASP and the lack of materialsand references has beenconsidered a major problem in this field, and no clear curriculum of ASP as wellcontributedon it. This study benefited from the problems and weaknesesin this field to develop and designthe curriculum ofASP(Tourism).This research takes a scientific approach to developthe fundamentalson which it de-pends in the module design requirements byinductive and exploratory study in the design of English for specificpurposes; because this language has preceded the Arabic in this field for more than40 years. Accordingly, the research attempted to design Arabic for specificpurposesmodule, dealt withthe ab-soluteand variblecharacteristics. The students' needs are importance in designing these module, taking into account originality in the specificlanguage field. This research is a pioneer in the development of special Arabiccurricula.