Difficulties of Modal Auxiliary Verbs Experienced by Sudanese Learners of English at Tertiary Level

Abstract

The ‘purpose of this‘ pape‘r"is‘ fo inyésfigate the problems of Modal Verbs experienced by Sudanese‘ le'arners'_'of English at tertiary level. Special emphasis is placed on Central_'Modals,‘-Marginal Modals and Phrasal Modals. The assumption goal behind s1Ich_an investigation is the fact that the instructors of English do not give due attention to the teaching of Modal Verbs. Moreover, the teaching materials used at tertiary level do not cover the area of Modals verbs sufficiently. So, this paper attempts to identify the fiequently occurring errors in the performance of the students and offer remedial solutions to t.hen1_ The data were collected by using a multi choice test as an instrurnent. Following to the tabulation of data, the results were computed and analyzed with Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The results show that the students experienced difficulfies with Modal verbs. On the basis of the conclusion drawn fi-orn the analysis discussion of data, relevant recommendations were made for offering solution for the problem.