Difficulties Encountered by EFL Students in Acquiring and Using English Phrasal Verbs

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.