Investigating the Difficulties of EFL Learners in Using Polysomic Words in Written Text

Abstract

This study investigates the use and understanding of polysemy which is linguistic term in semantic area where meanings are studied. It has characteristic of multiple meaning. Polysomic words can give different contextual meaning. This linguistic feature encourages researcher to investigate this area to add this study to the previous ones the study took place at secondary school in I Khartoum- karari locality. The research uses descriptive and analytical method as for data collection researcher uses a test which answered by fifty participants as a sample for the study and outcome was of positive 40%students are unable to get correct answers of question one and78%of them answered second question correctly. This result matches hypothesis which confirms that most of students have difficulties in using polysomic words but they can identify them in context lastly researcher recommended that second language learners of English language do not need only acquisition of words in isolation but in contexts and suggested for further studies in this field because semantic is rich with new linguistic and educational phenomena need to be studied for universal benefits.