English has become the basic need of this era. For good reputation and status in educational society and economical market it is essential to have command on English. But it looks dream when we drop in on our educational institute and its learners especially learners of secondary level. At this level they are unable to comprehend English as they should according to their educational standard. There may be many reasons for their intelligibility. Therefore, the researcher has attempted to make an intensive
DISCUSSION Due to English is not the first language of many students in Turkey, students might face some difficulties when learning the language. Due to the fact that this study is small-scale research, it does not represent the population of Turkey. In this research, six adult L2 learners demonstrate outstanding levels of difficulties or challenges in certain fields such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is aware of their own difficulties and weaknesses
A study " Reading difficulties in grade six learners and challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading" which conducted by Linda Mwanamukubi (2013) aimed to discover the factors that contribute to causing reading difficulties among the learners of grade six and the challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading. The sample contained 206 participants from 10 schools in Chadiza and Chipata districts of the Eastern province of Zambia by applying quantitative and qualitative research designs and
Through the study of distance education at the KFU, it turned out that, most of the students facing difficulty in speaking skill. Tutoring online gives you the opportunity to gain speaking fluency and understanding of important aspects of the English language. This will develop speaking without hesitation or confusion. It is ideal for people who wanted to improve their self. Online tutoring is one of the most rapid in the development of educational systems and keep up the achievements of the technology
have been conducted in which the researchers argue that many ESL students face difficulties in learning English language at various levels and with different skills (e.g. McCardle and Hoff, [15] Hoffman, [10]). Other examples are Abdul Haq (1982), Harrison, Prator and Tucker (1975), Abbad (1988) and Wahba (1998). But, we hardly come across with the researches that cite the problems that Arab students face in learning English literature. Al Shumaimeri (2003) opined that “Teachers have pointed out that
Students’ Grammar Difficulties and Their Possible INTRODUCTION Grammar has been known as one of the most important part in any language. Many researchers have long debated about every single thing of it. Of course it has any teacher’s attention from around the world. Most of the teachers even believe that learning grammar intensively can help the learners build their knowledge, so that they will be able to use the language eventually. Meanwhile, for the learners themselves, learning grammar often means
factors, the results revealed that the difficulty of English, the fear of making mistakes, losing face with friends when speaking or reading English, the difficulty in memorizing English vocabulary seemed to be the greatest contributors to students’ demotivation in English learning. To begin with, despite the awareness of the necessity of English in this modern life, the majority of the students both in the questionnaires and the interviews perceived English as a difficult language to master because
Calisir and Akin (2014) investigated the effect of language transfer in Turkish EFL learners. They focused on grammatical difficulties while learners acquiring word order patterns (verb placement) in English. They found that differences in syntactic structure of two languages causes transfer errors. Turkish the basic word order is SOV (subject-object-verb) which is in contrast with English word order SVO (subject-verb-object), and Turkish word order is quite flexible. The results of this study was based
because we use it in a daily basis. Most people in our society had a hard time with learning how to read and write in the early age and some still have trouble with it now, especially if English was their second language. For many individuals this could influence if they like or dislike reading and writing today and how it affected them throughout their school performances. To answer the question, how does having English as a second language affect the students interest in literacy, research and personal
Abstract: The aim of the current study was to investigate the reasons behind Saudi learners’ poor reading skills. To this end, the objectives were to identify the reading habits of Saudi English as a Foreign Language high school learners, to understand the extent to which Saudi high learners use reading comprehension skills and to explore the perceptions of learners, teachers and supervisors regarding Saudi learners’ reading abilities. The study sample consisted of 40 Saudi high school students