A descriptive-analytical method was used in this study. It also discovers the difficulties that faced ESP students in using synonyms. This study aims to investigate and analyze the errors of English for specific purposes college students in using synonyms. The researcher used SPSS to analyze data. For this reason, the researcher adopted pre and post-tests to evaluate the output of the means of the students' results. Correct handling proposition is not because most of them have different functions straightforward, and different prepositions have the same uses. It also highlights the causes of those problems. This study aims at examining the problems that EFL students commit mistakes in using English prepositions of place on. For Iraqi EFL students, prepositions regarded as a problematic criterion. This study has been performed in the Department of English at College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad, to diagnosis the difficulties of English prepositions that face Iraqi first-year students at the University since multi-uses and meanings of prepositions. Iraqi English as a foreign language (EFL) students face difficulties in differentiating between using prepositions correctly. This study is descriptive quantitative research by using a test to collect the data needed. Also this study reveals that the domains theory has indeed been demonstrated to be effective in precisely understanding the semantic domains of English lexical concepts. This is due to the need for information about English equivalent words, then suggests suitable solutions for them.
The present study reveals the difficulties that occurred when Iraqi EFL students used synonyms. Figures and tables were used to present the data. The data was analyzed by the SPSS program. In order to achieve the aim of this study, the researcher used pre and posttest as tools for collecting data. The participants of this study, fifty female students during the first semester, were chosen randomly for the academic year 2019-2020. This study was conducted in the Department of English, College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad, to indicate first-year students’ incompetence in using synonyms. Iraqi EFL students face difficulties in using appropriate synonyms. Understanding synonyms helps students to understand the meaning of the word easily and avoid mistakes committed in synonyms as a result of their knowledge concerning this area. Learning synonyms means learning how words can be related to each other. Learning and teaching synonyms for Iraqi EFL students is a difficult task.
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