Abstract
İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğrenen Öğrencilerin İngilizceyi Öğrenirken Karşılaştıkları Güçlükler: Bir Kazak Olgu Çalışması
This study focused on difficulties that students face while mastering English. We were interested in their English skills, types of difficulties with learning English, and their emotional states caused by EFL issues. A total of 130 Kazakh students participated in this study. There were 60 females and 70 males in our sample. Participants' mean age was 19 and the standard deviation of their age was 1.16. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were utilized in order to answer the research questions. Descriptive statistical values were calculated and some inferential statistical procedures were conducted for the quantitative data. The most frequent EFL-related difficulty reported by students was the lack of vocabulary and the least frequent one was a set of problem with understanding materials written in English. Self-reported English skills were not in a statistically significant correlation with the overall frequency of difficulties encountered while mastering English.
Keywords
English, foreign language, learning difficulties, mastering.
