The ability of Iraqi university students to recognize and produce phrasal verbs in English from a syntactic and semantic perspective

Authors

  • Ayad Seleem Mansour University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq

Keywords:

language learning, language use, EFL, phrasal verbs, university English, Iraq

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the ability of Iraqi university students to recognize and produce English phrasal verbs and their synonymous simple lexical verbs from a syntactic and semantic point of view. It is hypothesized those students find it difficult to recognize and produce phrasal verbs. The results show that the students seem to have insufficient skill or capacity to recognize phrasal verbs and consequently to produce meaningful sentences. The data was collected by testing 50 Year-4 students in an English department in an Iraqi university.

Author Biography

  • Ayad Seleem Mansour, University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq

    Ayad Seleem Mansour is an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Kirkuk, Kirkuk, Iraq. He was an instructor in the Department of English at the University of Anbar, Ramadi, Iraq from 2003 to 2019. His research interests lie in the teaching of English grammar, pragmatics and linguistics.

The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 1. March 2020.

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2020-04-05

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020)

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The ability of Iraqi university students to recognize and produce phrasal verbs in English from a syntactic and semantic perspective. (2020). The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7(1), 91-100. https://caes.hku.hk/ajal/index.php/ajal/article/view/652