The goal of the Android mobile application for Arabic learning is to help students who are not alumni of Muslim boarding school in everyday interaction using the Arabic language at Universitas Darussalam Gontor and to function as a medium to introduce Arabic of Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor version to beginners. The contents come from the book of the first edition of chapter 1 to 12 written by KH. Imam Zarkasyi and KH. Imam Syubani. These books are studied by santri of KMI PMDG of class one. This application applies grammar translation and audiolingual method to learn Arabic for beginners and is developed using ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) approach model. The test was done in six ways: its compatibility with any android device at least 4.5 inchi with the type of android mimimum version of 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), an expert material of Arabic language learning give rate score 95%, an expert of media learning give rate score 88.9%, 7 of 11 lecturers of Arabic language give an average score of 81.4%, 6 of 30 students from non-alumni muslim boarding school at this campus give 91.6% and 373 general users via playstore from February 1, 2017, to November 18, 2017, rated 4.9. The result of the overall evaluation of all the tests on this apps shows that this application is relevant to beginner users because of its ease. However, it cannot replace the role of teacher, class, and situation of real Muslim boarding school.

Insha ‹Arabi At-tahriri is one of the important subject in the Kulliyatul Mu›allimin Al-Islamiyah (KMI) curriculum. However, in the implementation, it was found that most of them (60%) still scored below 6. This study aims to find the problems that exist in the learning of Insya ‹Arabi At-tahriri amongs student or santri of KMI, especially fifth grade student. This research is a field research using descriptive qualitative analysis. This research takes place in Modern Islamic Boarding School of Darussalam Gontor Campus 2. The sample of this research includes the Vice-director of KMI, teacher of KMI, staff of KMI, and all the fifth-grade students of KMI. The results of this study indicate the problem of learning Insya caused by several source. From the internal students, such as the lack of ability to express the language in writing competence, the weak mastery of Arabic Material and psychological aspect like willingness and motivation. And the external aspect of student including their activities outside class such as joining organization. While the factor of teachers, the problematic learning occurs due to teacher teaching method, some of them do not use student learning center method. It cause the teaching process becomes monotonous and bit boring.

Dictionaries (Qawāmis and Ma'ājim in Arabic term) were a media for the learning of a foreign language, especially for non-native Arabic learners in Indonesia. They are factual proof of the existence of any language standard, as well as a reference to which people refer to the meaning of the word or the way it is spoken or its synonyms. Therefore, the design of theses Dictionaries in this modern age is undoubtedly. The researcher has tried to design a bilingual dictionary (Indonesian -Arabic) in the field of pharmacy and nutrition for students of the departments of pharmacy and nutrition Faculty of Health Sciences University of Darussalam Gontor (UNIDA Gontor) since the last seven months. The researcher has done the design of a bilingual dictionary, starting from data collection and materials, analysis and evaluation until finishing its design in appropriate time. The researcher called it Mu'jam Aṣ-Ṣihah. Based on this, the researcher in this simple article wanted to come up with something important about the design of this dictionary from the way it is designed, its characteristics and specifications so that it becomes clear to other scholars' students and other researchers the characteristics and specifications of this dictionary, although it was not yet a perfect product. The researcher has relied on qualitative descriptive methodology by focusing on dictionary design based on lexicography. A detailed statement of the characteristics and specifications of this dictionary is provided in the following pages.