Exploring Vocabulary Learning Difficulties faced by EFL learners

Abstract

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