The major portion of this paper is devoted to delineate the types of errors made by Arab learners of English in the area of the article system. By so doing, the paper classifies learners' errors according to the Surface Structure Taxonomies of errors, and illustrates the possible sources of these errors. In order to overcome learners' difficulties in L[subscript 2] article system, this paper suggests a new approach for teaching and learning L[subscript 2] article system. (Contains 2 tables.)