Investigating the Difficulties Facing EFL Students in Dealing and Understanding Ambiguous Sentences

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the difficulties facing E F L students in dealing and understanding ambiguous sentences. The researcher adopted the descriptive method for data collection. The test was designed and given to 40 students at Sudan University of Science and Technology. Then the researcher analyzed the data and arrived at the following results: E F L students at Sust University are unable to deal with ambiguous sentences correctly particularly to identify semantic and structural ambiguous sentences. According to above results the researcher recommended that: Teachers of English language should give more exercises to Students, so as to be able to deal and understand ambiguous sentences correctly. Also Teachers of English language should introduce to students different types of ambiguous sentences in order to facilitate learning process.