Investigating Difficulties of English Spelling That Face First Year Students at Sudanese Universities

Abstract

This study tried to investigate the difficulties in spelling that face first year students in Sudan university. The study adopted a descriptive methodology which combined both qualitative and quantitative analysis. One instrument was used for data collection which was questionnaire for the teachers. The data were analyzed using the (SPSS) programmer. It provided percentile results for the questionnaire and mode for the personal data. Some of the most important result which the study came up with are students have problems in spelling particularly with silent letter, silent consonant letters, vowel letters and compound words. The study also offered some recommendation, The most important of which are teachers should encourage students to practice spelling activities, teachers should provide intensive spelling activities for students .More over the study gave some suggestions for further research.