The Need of Teaching Aspects of Connected Speech to the Yemeni Students of English at the Tertiary Level

Abstract

#Yemeni students join the departments of English at the Yemeni universities with a great hope of acquiring an excellent competence of English after their graduation. Unfortunately, after four years of studying English as major specialization, they realize that their dreams did not fulfill and they cannot understand the native speakers of English in real communicative situations. However, this study is an attempt to find out the main reason behind this phenomenon and to suggest some solutions which may enable the departments and the teachers of English at the tertiary level to help their learners to overcome this dilemma which leads to frustration for those graduates of English from the different Yemeni universities.