The Problems of Learning a Foreign Language: Difficulties with Learning Vocabulary in Second Language Acquisition
Keywords:
Second-language readers, discrimination, understanding meaning, rememberingAbstract
This paper describes the problems of acquiring foreign languages (English) and it recommends strategies that can minimize the students’ problems in learning the English
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