Investigating the Difficulties Encounter students of Sudanese secondary schools When Using Pronouns in English Language

Abstract

Language is one of the important things in our life. Language becomes essential by knowing and learning it. English is one of the foreign languages that including in our curriculum. In learning English as foreign language, there are four skills that expected can be achieved by the students, such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Giving a set of grammatical is very important. for mastering English language. One of them is the using of pronouns. Pronouns are used for representing specific people or things. There are many kinds of pronoun, such as subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronoun, and possessive adjectives this research is conducted to identify the students‘ difficulties in using pronouns of second-class at secondary school in 2016/2017. There are twenty (30) students as the participant of this research which taken from XB class as the sample from the population that consists of eighty (80) students. The method of this research is descriptive and analytical method applied through test and used SPSS program to analyze data. The findings show that the students still feel some difficulties in using pronouns. Most of them are still confused in distinguishing: between pronouns and the using of subject pronouns and object pronouns; the function of possessive pronoun, and possessive adjectives e.g. placing a noun whether in possessive pronoun or possessive adjectives; and the using of its and it‘s. Conclusion of this research is there are some difficulties that faced by the second class of S.S.S. In other words, the using pronouns is still difficult for the students at S.S. S Therefore, the researcher gives suggestion for the teacher in order to explore more various teaching strategies in order to decrease the number of difficulties