Abstract:
This study sets out to investigate the difficulties facing university EFL
Students in Using English Phrasal Verbs at The type of research methodology
adopted in the present study is the descriptive analytical method. To collect
the data, a questionnaire was designed and given to 30 English language
Teachers and the test was administered and distributed to 100 second year
Students majoring in English language at the Sudan University of Science and
Technology, College of language, the data were analyzed by using the
statistical package of social science (SPSS). The findings of study revealed
that the students have poor Knowledge in using and guessing the meaning
phrasal verbs from the context. The Findings also showed that the nature of
phrasal verbs, cause difficulty for EFL University Students particularly those
phrasal verbs that require good knowledge of cultural background. Because
most of Students are not sufficiently aware of using English phrasal verbs.
The findings revealed that the idiomatic phrasal verbs are difficult because the
meaning of phrasal verbs cannot be inferred from the meaning of individual
words. The study recommended that the teachers of English language of
Sudanese University should take care of this important linguistic area of
phrasal verbs by providing more practice.
