Difficulties and Problems in Learning English.
As a second language user, students will have difficulties in using the language especially in writing. Writing is considered important to postgraduate students as it implies in doing written assignments, journals and researches. Poor writing skills lead to inequality results.
Students’ difficulties to communicate in English must be solved as soon as possible considering their needs in facing the working world. In conclusion, by forcing the students only to speak English during the class and having conversation club will solve their difficulties to speak English.
Such interview will be applied for each student to investigate speaking difficulties and the causes of such difficulties. The results showed and indicated there some difficulties in the speaking of the students due to some reasons such as fear of mistake, shyness, anxiety and lack of confidence.
Al-Khairy (2013) studied English-major students in foreign language departments of Taif University, and found that English writing scores were on average lower than the scores for listening, reading, and speaking, which demonstrated that the skills of the Arab learners were below the expected levels to create strong narrative, descriptive and argumentative essays.
On the difficulties of language features on grammar, it could be seen from the previous explanation that there were 50% of students faced problems in language features of writing the narrative texts.
To find out about trainee teacher’s difficulties in speaking English while doing their practicum and during lecture hours in the classroom. To propose suggestions on how barriers and difficulties of speaking English in the classroom can be minimized, or eliminated. 1.4 The Research Questions.
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an English speaker. After this particular study time you will reach 'Speaking 3: General Professional Proficiency in Speaking (S3)' and 'Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)' Please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the Foreign.
English is one of the main languages which is widely used all over the world. However, for some students, the process of learning English as a second language is not that smooth compared with other subjects they have learnt. Due to the difficulties in learning, it is easy to make students lose their interest.
Speaking is the active use of language to express meaning, andfor young learners, the spoken language is the medium through which a new language is encountered, understood, practiced, and learnt.
Factors causing the academic writing difficulties Chou (2011) has listed a number of reasons why international students studying in an English-speaking country encounter a lot of stress and obstacles when writing their assignments. Firstly, students might come from different cultural backgrounds where they are fully dependent on teachers.
This paper will focus on the problems in learning English speaking skill at higher secondary level. Fauziati (2010:15) points out that “mastering the art of speaking is the single most important aspect of learning a second or foreign language and success is measure in term of ability to carry out a conversation in the language” It has been.
This article is written for teachers with large classes of students who have encountered some of the following or similar problems during speaking activities in their classroom. Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom? When all the students speak together it gets too noisy and out of hand and I lose control of the classroom.
The above mentioned problems are just a few of other problems but in my opinion these are the major ones faced by students. the hardest for a teacher in this case is to actually create a new structure of the English grammar while trying not to dismantle the exisiting language structure of their mothertongue.
