Difficulties in learning language

skills in English as a Second

Language at intermediate level.
Supervisor.
Dr. Bashir Gondel
Scholar.
Arooj Shabbir.
M Phil(2015-2017).
Introduction.

Pakistan is multilingual society. Pakistani students faced a lot of learning

problems. In the period of globalization English language played a very important
role in school, college and higher education. English is no longer a mere subject
to be learnt in the classroom but also medium for social and practical use
(Foley,2005).Therefore, English has come to be considered globally as the
international or global language. The main use of English language is it helps the
students in getting greatjob, improve communication skills and others. Eid &
Jordan- Damschot (1989) stated that students language ability is also related to
academic success.
The main goal of the English courses on offer is to develop students communicative
competence in both academic and non-academic English. In doing so, language learners are
expected to be able to efficiently express themselves in the target language and successfully
communicate in real-life situations ( Lightbrown & Spada, 1999 ).According to Boon yakarn
(1991), The students are expected to be able to communicate effectively in English but they
have problem to differentiate English language skills from The language. They also still
encounter problems of difficulties in their speaking, reading, listening and although they use
English most of the time in the classroom. According to Yarn ruksa (1997), this may be partly
due to a lack ofconfidence in expressing themselves in English. There are many solutions
that might help The students to solve their problems in learning English in intermediate.

Objectives of the study.

To identify the problems which learners face in reading English language.

To find out the students writing problems in learning English.
To compare the understanding level of English according gender.
Research Question?

What are language difficulties of the students reading and writing at intermediate
level?
Are there any difference in students due to gender.
How does one identify reading difficulties in students in learning the English language.
Do you think that present syllabus is fulfill the requirements for students reading and
writing skills.
Do you think that these language difficulties due to lack-ness in elementary education.
Are these problems due to differ in mother language.
Statement of the Study.

This study sets out to achieve certain objectives. The main objective of the
study is to identify learning language skills difficulties at intermediate level and
to find out that our institutes are used these language skills in Pakistan so that
the learners are provided with a language learning environment focusing on the
development of reading and writing skills in the language. The research study is
to identify the hurdles and challenges which might how these problems could be
met and resolved. Overall, this research aims at investigating that if language
learning skills environment is provided to learners of Intermediate level would
their communicative ability be improved or not.
Significance of the Study.

The study will be helpful for different stakeholders such as policy makers, writers,
educationists and teachers in focusing English language teaching for language
skills purpose. The study will encourage policy makers and educationists; first, in
revising the syllabus for Intermediate Level English books to ensure that textbooks
include the activities for developing listening, writing, reading and speaking skills
of the learners. Secondly, the study will persuade the examiners to design such
papers /exams which assess the communicative ability of the learners as well so
that the communicative skills are better taught in the colleges. Most importantly,
the study will motivate the teachers to incorporate such activities in their
teaching plans which stimulate the learners to actively engage and participate in
class discussions, presentations, role plays and dialogues etc. to improve their
communicative skills. Moreover, the study will inspire and motivate the learners
to work enthusiastically towards having better command on listening, reading,
writing and speaking skills.
Justification.

The study will be encourage teaching of English for communicative purpose by

understanding learners existing as well as potential level of learning and
assisting them systematically towards achieving the said goal. The importance of
this study to find out different learning skills that will be very effective for
learners.
1-To identify the different learning language skills (listening, reading, writing
and speaking).
2-To identify the problems of the student as a second language English in
Pakistan.
3-What are suggestions to enhance the learning language skills in our
institutes.
Methodology.

Following methodology will be used to achieve the object of the study.

Research Design.

Qualitative and quantitative method will be used in this research.

The study will be descriptive, survey and non-contrived as no manipulation
will be done by the researcher.
A self-constructed questionnaire will be used as tool for data collection.
Questionnaires will be finalized after expert opinion and reliability will be
ensured.
A semi structured interview will be used as a tool.
Target Population of the Study.

The population of the study will be all intermediate public sector intermediate
students of the District Gujrat .
Sample of the study.

The sample for this study would be all students of intermediate level in
district Gujrat, random sampling will be used, and where the samples will be
selected based on the specific purpose of the research. It is appropriate as
this study is aimed to identify the students learning language difficulties,
which faced them to have English language and to determine the language
learning students.
A Random sampling will be used to select the sample of the study.
Out of 16 intermediate college eight college is selected for this research by
the use of cluster sampling .
Instrumentation.

To collect data from the students, self- constructed Learning language

Difficulties scale will be used for the study.
A semi structured interview will be used for the study.
Data Collection

Data will be collected personal visits and with the assistance of the friends and
colleagues.
Questionnaire will be distributed among the sample of the students by giving
them clear instructions in writing and verbally.
Interview will be used among the sample of the students.
Data Analysis.

The data will be analyzed by using descriptive statistics, in which to identify the
scoring items in the questionnaire, frequency, mean and standard deviation will
be calculated. All the data will be analyzed using a statistical hardware, based
on descriptive statistics.