an analysis of the effect of mispronunciation on sudanese university students writing

Abstract

ABSTRACT (English Version ) The Analysis of the Effect of Mispronunciation on Sudanese University Students’ writing Performance The study aims at investigating and analyzing the effect of mispronunciation on the writing errors, which have been made by the fourth year students of English language Department - Faculty of Arts, at El Neelain University in the academic year (2000-2001). The study attempts to find out and analyze the difficculties encountered by the university students, learning English as a foreign language. The study also attempts to investigate to what extent, the subjects have acquired the writing skills ; in the area of orthography, lexis, syntax and punctuation. The thesis consists of four chapters: Chapter one which is an introduction includes the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the need for the study, the questions and the hypothesis raised by the researcher. Chapter two, sheds light on the literature review. lt is composed of three parts: Part one is an introduction about language and teaching. Part two is a review on learning theories. Part three represents previous studies on contrastive analysis and error analysis. V - Chapter three handls how the data are collected, analyzied and classified, calculated and tabulated. Each table is followed by a histograms. The chapter also, presents the findings obtained on the basis of the analysis mentioned above. The last and the fourth chapter is devoted to conclusions, recommendation, and implications for further studies.