Investigating the Difficulties Encountered by Sudanese Arabic Speakers in Pronunciation of English Sounds

Abstract

This study aims at Investigating the Difficulties Encountered by Sudanese Arabic Speakers in English Pronunciation of English Sounds, The study adopts a descriptive analytic method which tend to describe the problems to find the solutions. The data has been collected from sample of students who responded to provide answers for pronunciation test concerning the English sounds which do not exist in Arabic, and also the impact of English spelling in English pronunciation, to select out English sounds pronunciation difficulties which encountered by Sudanese Arabic speakers in English sounds pronunciation. The test has been given to 30 students from Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Languages, English Department, fourth level students, the study comes out with findings that some English sounds which do not exist in Arabic cause difficulties for Sudanese Arabic speakers who are learners of English, moreover English language has complex spelling system in some words that lead to wrong pronunciation. The study offered some recommendations that may help to overcome these problems.