Investigating the role of word formation knowledge in enhancing student's spelling skills

الملخص EN

This present article aimed at finding out the fundamental problems that face 4th years students at college of languages at Sudan University for Science and Technology in investigating the role of word formation Knowledge in enhancing students' spelling skills.

The descriptive and analytical method was adopted in this paper.

The data of this study was collected using a questionnaire which was administered to eleven universities teachers.

The respondents to the questionnaire were 50 English language teachers.

The data obtained using (SPSS) program.

The findings of the study showed that the majority of the EFL learners have no background about spelling techniques and lots of them commit spelling errors.

The results showed that the learners faced difficulties in identifying the roots and stems of words.

The study recommended that students should be given more practices and teachers should be trained so as to send the message in a correct way