Arab Learners’ Problems in Learning English Language: A Teacher Perspective

Abstract

Because of the social and cultural backgrounds of students, teachers, and specialists of English faces a lot of problems while teaching English to Arab students in general, and Iraqi students in particular. There are many reasons for this. The first and the most important reason is that the Arab students have no knowledge of even Basic English although they are taught English in schools. Perhaps the school teachers do not pay proper attention towards the role of  English and its significance in the classroom. Whatever may be the reason for this but the teacher who teaches those students in higher classes suffers the most and faces a lot of problems while teaching them a prescribed book or course in higher classes. On the other hand students look towards their teacher with great hope. They consider the teacher the most competent and think that their teacher would make them learn English very soon Thus a teacher's responsibility towards his students is doubled. As a findings of earlier studies and many English teachers are fade up and disappointed and so leave the assignment in the middle of their contract. But if the teacher has a little patience and is competent and intelligent he would handle the situation easily and achieve his goal. The plans, strategies and methods of teaching English to these students have been discussed in details in the main research paper.

Keywords: Arab Learners, Problems, English Language Learning.