The Syntactic and Semantic Problems of Libyan Students in Using Phrasal Verbs to Compose English Texts

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10.2991/assehr.k.210427.097How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Phrasal verbs, semantic problems, syntactic problems

Abstract

The study aimed to explore the presence of syntactic and semantic issues in the use of phrasal verbs for writing English texts among Libyan students and to explain the intrusion in the use of phrasal verbs between syntactic and semantic issues. The study used a descriptive qualitative approach with qualitative and involved 10 respondents of Libyan students studying at Semarang State University. The data were collected using a questionnaire. The researcher read fifteen English written texts and select the phrasal verbs found in the sentences of texts. The reasons why do Libyan students make such errors because English is not their mother tongue, so the Libyan students have some difficulties to speak and write derivational morphemes in English. They lack practices, and the rules in English different with Arabic, lack of knowledge about derivational morphemes. Besides that, the majority that often happens to Libyans is in the mistakes that occur due to the first overgeneralization which causes miss spelling or misconduct mistakes that have been made but have not been corrected.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zaied Saad Shouran
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - The Syntactic and Semantic Problems of Libyan Students in Using Phrasal Verbs to Compose English Texts
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 638
EP  - 644
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.097
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.097
ID  - Shouran2021
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