The invention discloses a preparation method of polyphenylene terephthalamide (PPTA) copolymer adopting dimethylacetamide (DMAC) direct spinning. The method comprises the following steps: 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfide or 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether is used as third monomer, m-phthaloyl chloride is introduced as fourth monomer to perform copolymerization with p-phthaloyl chloride and p-phenylenediamine in a solvent system and prepare uniform, transparent and thick PPTA copolymer size, and the concentration of the polymer is adjusted to perform dope spinning. The method of the invention effectively avoids of adopting the complicated production equipment to perform the polymerization of PPTA; cheap 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfide or 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether is used as the third monomer and the fourth monomer with a meta-structure is introduced to prepare the PPTA copolymer which can be directly dissolved in DMAC, thus avoiding of using concentrated sulfuric acid as spinning solvent; and the spinning solvent is consistent to the polymerization solvent, the concentration of the polymer is adjusted to perform dope spinning with DMAC and the production process can be greatly simplified.