Analyzing Efl Learners’ Difficulty in Understanding Phrasal Verbs

This study was designed to find out the difficulties faced by students in understanding the English phrasal verbs. It was conducted at Faculty of Education and Teacher Training specifically in the Department of English Language Education of Islamic State University of Ar-Raniry (UIN Ar-Raniry). The population and the samples were the third year undergraduate students (Batch 2017) in academic year 2018/2019. To collect the data, the test was given to a class that consisted of twenty-five students. It showed that most of the students (68%) got D (failed) and E (insufficient) score. Then, 28% of the students got C (average) and4% of the students got B (good score), but no students got A (excellent). It was proved that the students’ mastery of phrasal verbs was weak. In addition, the result of the interview showed that the semanticand syntactic errorbecametwo of the difficult aspects faced by students in learning and understanding phrasal verbs. From this result, it can be concluded that it is necessary to take into consideration and to pay serious attention on teaching phrasal verbs to the students.