Title : A STUDY ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF LEARNING PHRASAL VERBS BY THE STUDENTS IN CO-OPERATIVE UNIVERSITY, THANLYIN

Authors : Wai Wai Hlaing

Publication Date : 2020-08-01

Description : This research paper mainly focuses on the students‟ background knowledge concerning phrasal verbs, their difficulties on phrasal verbs, to what extent their practice of structure word exercises helps them improving their understanding, and to which degree their dictionary skills support them for guessing the meaning of the phrasal verbs. The aims of the research are to realize the learners‟ difficulties on learning phrasal verbs and to describe some suggestions to develop their learning. For these reasons, needs analysis is used to point out learners‟ difficulties. In the questionnaires how much exercises and practices relates to the phrasal verbs is measured. Random sampling method is used to collect the data after asking for the volunteering students to answer the questionnaires. Frequency and percentage of descriptive statistics method is used to analyze the data. The research mentions that the more frequent the learners have the contact with structure word exercises, the more confident they will have to face with phrasal verbs, and consequently the more their background knowledge about phrasal verbs,the more favourable they are to get the right answer. Moreover, using dictionary book is more reliable and can make the learners improve more than using applications of this kind, as everyone is the great tendency to find out the meaning of the word simultaneously, without paying much attention to the other points in the dictionary. This makes the learners decrease their dictionary skill, which may affect to develop the language skill. Therefore, the learners should have continuously touched with prepositions or adverbs which are combined with verbs to give the different meaning of the base verbs. In addition, developing dictionary skill actually helps all the learners not only to develop their knowledge about phrasal verbs but also to upgrade their language skills