Difficulties In Learning English Case Study

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INTRODUCTION
For decades, learning English as a second language has been very important because English is the communication language over the world. “Language learning has been an important issue in Turkey starting from the second half of the XX. century until today. After the Second World War English became the foregrounded language. English is still a language which is in favor in Turkey as well as it is in the world.” (Küçükoğlu, 2013) Nowadays the term’ English language learning difficulty’ is very important for instructors and language teachers to find out how they can improve students’ performance. It’s a well known the fact that this difficulty was realized years ago but now as the educational demands are increasing, this problem has …show more content…

Considering the literature review, a number of studies argue that many language learners face difficulties in learning English as a second language at various levels and different skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. (McCardle & Hoffman, 2006) There are many students in Turkey having some problems in learning English at schools and language centers. This research explores the causes of learning difficulties from the perspective of second language (L2) adult learners in relation to their overall L2 proficiency and L2 performance and knowledge. This study, particularly, intended to answer these following questions: What are the students’ difficulties in learning reading?, What are the students’ difficulties in learning speaking?, What are the students’ difficulties in learning writing?, What are the students’ difficulties in learning listening?, What are the students’ difficulties in learning grammar and vocabulary? The answers of these research questions are to enlighten English language teachers about L2 learners’ …show more content…

However, students were given a choice to use either English or Turkish or both to answer the questions. Each interview which lasted approximately twenty minutes was recorded. The samples were voluntarily chosen by the instructor consisted of two male and four females students. The interviews were conducted in 30 December 2014. Before each interview, while distributing consent papers, the respondent was briefed on the purpose of the study and informed that their participation was voluntarily. The responses obtained from the interviewee were translated to English. Meanwhile, half of the students were at lower proficiency level and the other half were at medium proficiency level. The questions and analysis from the interview looked at some difficulties the students faced regarding language learning. The analysis of responses in order to find adult learners’ difficulties in language learning was done by identifying similarities among six learners in terms of area of difficulties, language skills difficulties and reasons behind their problems.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Due to English is not the first language of many students in Turkey, students might face some difficulties when learning the language. In this research, six adult L2 learners demonstrate outstanding levels of difficulties or challenges in certain fields such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is

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