Investigating Linguistic Barriers against Communicative Ability: University of Sudan, College of Graduate Studies, Sudan. Ahmed Mukhtar Elmardi Osman Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan Alsadig Osman Mohammed Abaker Sudan University of Science and Technology El Hadji Cheikh Kandji Najran University, Saudi Arabia.

الملخص

The following paper deals with the linguistic factors that constitute a hindrance to the communicative competence in English of high school students in Sudan. It pinpoints specific linguistic problems that contribute to the students’ inability to achieve communicative competence in English; and it makes some recommendations to overcome this issue. Grounded in both a quantitative and qualitative approach, two different instruments were used. A questionnaire was addressed to EFL teachers on the one hand, and a test was given to high school students on the other hand. Both population samples willingly lent themselves to the research project. The findings clearly evidence the existence of a set of language barriers that hinder students’ communicative competence. The paper comes up with a number of recommendations