Abstract
The study was conducted to explore the students’ difficulties in learning English at primary level in district Bahawalpur. All the teachers teaching English at primary level in public schools of district Bahawalpur were the population of the study. The sample size was 120 English teachers selected from 60 government primary schools. Questionnaire was developed to gather the information about learning difficulties of students. It is concluded that teachers are more inclined to teach reading and writing skills as compared to speaking and listening. In learning English, primary school students face a number of problems related to sounds recognition, reading comprehension, sentence construction, pronunciation, applying grammar rules and insufficient support from family. The results reveal that male students encounter more problems as compared to female students. However, no significant difference is observed in the opinions of rural and urban teachers, and regular and contractual teachers about students’ learning difficulties. Certain changes and modifications are required in the approach to English language teaching at public schools.