The problems that face Sudanese basic school students in learning English vocabulary

This study aims at investigating the problems and difficulties that encounter Sudanese basic school students when they learn English vocabulary, also the study aims at identifying and predicting modern methods to help teachers in the process of teaching and reading vocabulary. The analytical descriptive method was conducted to analyze the collected data through a test for a group of both male and female Sudanese basic school students to check their ability of using English vocabulary correctly. The test was analyzed through statistical package of social sciences (SPSS). The statistical results revealed that Sudanese basic school students encounter difficulties when they learn vocabulary.  Some teachers do not use appropriate approaches of teaching vocabulary. The researchers recommended that: Teachers should encourage students to make English societies to improve English vocabulary, curriculum designers should decrease the curricula concerns basic school level to give much time to students to focus on vocabulary, listening audio sections should be provided at basic school level.