Investigating the Difficulties Encountered by Sudanese Secondary School Students in Writing Composition

Abstract

The study aims at Investigating the Difficulties Encountered by Secondary School Students Common Errors in Writing Composition. The methodology used in this study is descriptive one. The population of the study were (30) of secondary school students from alkadarow secondary schools (15) of them are boys and (15) of them are girls. The study has illustrated through the analysis of the test that: The general style of student’s writing revealed the low ability in using the rules of grammar correctly, Most male and female student uses the punctuation marks incorrectly and apart of the students do not use them at all, Many of the students are ignorant the correct style of writing composition, this causes a major problem in the sequencing and the coherence of the written piece, ALL the written texts are not arranged as it should be, student could not arrange the words correctly to give an understandable meaning, There are differences between the written language performance of male and female students. The study presented some recommendations:Giving the students intensive lessons to explain the rules of the language in details also solving many exercises related to the grammar rules.Teachers should find the most appropriate method to teach grammar,Teachers should focus on teaching students punctuation marks and not neglect them by allocating lessons to them.