An investigation into the role of teaching vocabulary through communicative approach

الملخص EN

This present article aimed at finding out the fundamental problems that face 4th year students at college of languages, Sudan university for science and technology in acquiring vocabulary.

The descriptive and analytical method was adopted in this paper.

The data of this study was collected by the use of a test.

The respondents of this article were 50 students at fourth year at college of language were given a test to diagnose the difficulties.

The findings of the study showed that the students have no background information about the vocabulary learning strategies and some words are wrongly used.

The results also showed that lots of students commit a lot of spelling errors.

The study recommended that, the syllable designed at the previous stage should be altered by a current English syllabus which has lots of exercises and tasks, and teachers’ opinions and views ought to be taken into consideration when designing English syllabus.