Abstract:
This study aims to find out the difficulties encountered by
Sudanese Secondary school Students while learning vocabulary,
and analyzing it and trying to find solutions for it. The main
question is that, why secondary school students find it difficult
to learn Words' meanings and to recall them when needed. The
study hypothesizes that English vocabulary itself is a difficult
task for the students. Also the students have no strategies to help
them know the words’ meanings, Moreover visual aids and
games help students much to improve their English vocabulary.
To collect data for this study the researcher followed the
descriptive method through which he designed a questionnaire
for (40) English language teachers (male / Female) who are still
working as English teachers. In addition to that the researcher
tested (56) Secondary school students. As a result, to the above
it is noticed that.
- Secondary school students face difficulties while learning
vocabulary especially when they are alone.
- Secondary school students have no strategies to help them
to learn vocabulary.
- Using visual aids and games help students to
- Improve their vocabulary.
According to the results, the following is recommended.
English language teachers must be awared that vocabulary
learning is difficult for the students
- Students must be taught basic strategies for learning
words. Visual aids and games must be used during
teaching process. Literature is one of the great means that
help students to develop their vocabulary knowledge..
