Problems of English Language Vocabulary Learning

Abstract

This research tends to investigate the problems that some vocabulary items arise on the pupils who learn English as a second language, with their ambiguous shapes, sounds and their different meanings; homonyms , homophones , homographs and polysemy. The research is under the title “Vocabulary Learning Problems at the Basic Level in Sudan”. The components of the research is of five chapters each dealing with a certain point as follows: Despite the fact that homonyms and polysemous ambiguity in language is an essential part of language , it is often an obstacle to be ignored or a problem to be totally solved for students to understand. This will be examined and will be attempted to show that even when as a problem , it provides [value]. In any case language ambiguity can be understood as an illustration of the complexity of language itself. Following the introduction contained in this chapter, the remaining components of this thesis are as follows: Chapter two surveys the related literature reviews related to this thesis. Following brief links into homonym and polysemy problems and other related areas of confusion as heteronym, homophones and homographs. It also give a brief historical background of homonymy and polysemy, plus the word origin. Chapter three, describes the methodology and the approaches that are used to collect the data and then the validity and reliability of the approaches. Chapter four, this chapter discusses the results and findings of the homonym and polysemy problems at the Basic Level SPINE Books. Chapter five: draws the final conclusions and findings. The final chapter gave brief recommendations about the research and further studies. The conceptual relationships between the chapters is shown in the below fig.

1-Introduction 2-Literature review 3-Methodology 4- Data Analysis 5-Results , Findings and recommendations fig: 1.1The conceptual relationship between the chapters