Analyzing the Difficulties encountered by Sudanese Arabic Native Speakers in Pronouncing English Assimilation: A Case Study of English Teaching Staff at some Sudanese Universities

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the difficulty of pronouncing assimilation in English language among Sudanese universities teaching staff of English at some universities who are Sudanese native speakers of Arabic (SNSA). The researchers assumed that there are difficulties of pronouncing assimilation in English among SNSA learners of English as foreign language. The study employed descriptive analytical method in order to elaborate and analyze the cause of the problem via statistical analysis of the gathered data. To obtain the necessary data for the study, the researchers designed a diagnostic test that confined to the research questions and hypotheses to be audio-recorded. Accordingly after the necessary data were collected then it was a statistically calculated and computed by means of percentage. Based on the analysis and the results obtained, the study reveals that there are difficulties among SNSA, learners of English as foreign language in pronouncing English assimilation.