Résumé:
The present study aims at exploring vocabulary learning difficulties faced by EFL learners. It
is hypothesized that first year License students at the department of English Mohammed
Seddik Ben Yahia University- Jijel face many difficulties when learning vocabulary. These
difficulties may be related to length and complexity, meaning, or pronunciation. In order to
collect the data needed for the study, a students’ questionnaire and a teacher’s interview were
used. The questionnaire was administered to 100 out of 285 first year students in order to
figure out their opinions about the main difficulties they face in the vocabulary. In addition,
an interview was conducted with three first year teachers of Oral and Written Expression in
order to investigate their views about these difficulties. The obtained results of this study, is
that EFL learners face many difficulties when learning vocabulary, which confirmed the
previously set hypothesis
