Investigating Difficulties in UnderstandingWritten Texts Arising from Syntactic Structures

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate difficulties in understanding written texts arising from syntactic structures. It is a case study of students at Sudan University College of Languages”. It concentrates on investigating the diversified views that English language teachers atSudan University of Sciences and Technology have about the difficulties arising from misunderstanding of syntactic structures of English, as well as testing university students through pre/ post test inside the classroom so as to see their fluency and accuracy as well as standing on their understanding of syntactic structures and common mistakes when they occurred or carried out in the wrong way. Great hope that, this investigation will help in the diagnosis of these problems (see chapter 2)..The population of the study consists of 30 English language teachers from different Sudanese universities in Khartoum state who have differences in their experience as well as in their universities whether they are supervisor, lecturers in governmental Universities and others experts in the field. In addition to130 students from Sudan University of Science and Technology third year who were chosen from the odd number of the list of the students. The data collection consist of questionnaire for the teachers and pre/post test for the students. The hypotheses of the study confirmed the existence of these problems of difficulties and misunderstanding of the written texts as far as the study concerned. Moreover, from the pre and post test, many problems appeared from the students answers. The study ended by recommendations related to the different views given by the English language teachers at Sudan University of Science and Technology and others in Khartoum locality, whether they are doctors, supervisors or experts in the field of teaching . In addition to that, there are suggestions for further studies in the same area.