Analysis of issues and challenges surrounding the Arabic language in Iran with a future-oriented approach

Having a strategic approach to issues is one of the necessities of macro-management of institutions and organizations. Understanding the problem is considered the first step in any type of policy-making. The first step in public policy-making is recognizing the issue and formulating it to put it on the policy-making agenda, which is considered a separate process in public policy-making. The purpose of conducting "Issue System Studies" as a strategic study is to determine the general lines of existing insight and experience about the main and key topics in a specific area. To identify, prioritize, and select priority issues of the Arabic language, comprehensive, holistic, and strategic research is needed. The present research has examined the "system of Arabic language issues with a future-oriented approach". This research is considered among applied research, as it seeks to create a basis for policy-making to solve Arabic language issues by analyzing the system of Arabic language issues. The method of information collection for enumerating Arabic language issues was based on a descriptive exploratory approach using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, and the method of information analysis is based on thematic analysis (as a research strategy). Data collection was carried out through documentary studies, interviews, questionnaires, and holding expert panels. The results show that the super-challenge of the Arabic language in Iran is the "vacuum of a dominant discourse in the field of Arabic language in Iran". This discourse vacuum indicates the "abandonment of the Arabic language in Iran"; three key challenges as the highest priority issues include the introduction of artificial intelligence to Arabic language teaching, the lack of connection between Arabic language education and job market-required skills, and the duality of Arabic language teaching with the aim of understanding religious texts or general purposes. The future-oriented approach to the issues facing the Arabic language and attention to new changes in the technology sphere and its impact on the emergence of new and emerging challenges, including the introduction of artificial intelligence to Arabic language teaching, are among the innovations of this article and distinguish it from previous research.