Revealing EFL Students’ Stance vis-à-vis Phrasal Verbs.

Abstract

This study was designed to examine the attitude of English language students at Ibn Khaldoun University of Tiaret towards phrasal verbs. The research is carried out in the Department of letters and English language at the University of Tiaret. Participants are second year students of English inscribed in the License/Master/Doctorate system (LMD) of the academic year 2019_2020. A students' test and a questionnaire are designed to collect data to spell out the importance of phrasal verbs, discuss the avoidance of phrasal verbs, the reasons behind this avoidance and the most common difficulties that encounter EFL learners when they deal with this kind of verbs. The findings show that the study subject did avoid dealing with phrasal verbs, and this avoidance is due to some obstacles which they confront, conspicuously: The difficulty of memorizing them because of their astronomical number, in addition to the obstacle of the idiomatic meaning that phrasal verbs carry and their syntactic structure.