Abstract:
The present study is aimed at investigating the issue of the
major morphological difficulties of using English morphemes faced
by Sudanese Secondary School Students.
The main objectives of this research are to shed light and
identify the morpheme difficulties and errors that are connected with
the use of the definite and indefinite articles, the present simple tense,
the irregular verbs and irregular plural. This is besides the difficulties
that are related to the English compound nouns in their plural forms,
the order of adjectives in a sentence, the suffix (er) when forming
comparative forms and nouns and the morphemes (not) and (un) plus
adjectives when forming negation and antonyms.
The significance of this research stems from the fact that
identifying and analyzing the grammatical difficulties and errors that
are encountered by Secondary School Students will pave the way to
overcome those difficulties and errors. Thus, improving the text
books in the subsequent revisions and improving the standard of the
students.
The major question raised in this study is what are the types and
potential sources of the grammatical difficulties and errors that
Sudanese Secondary School Students make in the use of the English
grammatical morphemes.
The researcher has followed the descriptive analytical method to
obtain the results. Two important tools were used for eliciting and
analyzing data, Teachers' Questionnaire (TQ) and the Students'
Diagnostic Test (SDT) for third grade secondary students.
The results obtained led the researcher to suggest that teachers
must get special training on how to make students learn grammar
without being demotivated towards language. This is besides the
efforts needed to accompany the syllabus taught with work books and
tape-recordings. Add to that students who face those difficulties need
to have some remedial lessons and drills.
The findings achieved in this study encouraged the researcher
forwards to present some suggestions for further studies.