Research Article

TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS AT ‘PERO NAKOV’ HIGH SCHOOL IN KUMANOVO

ABSTRACT

The process of learning English as a Foreign Language is a very demanding and complex one. The main reason is that it differs from the mother tongue and has different rules in grammar, methodology and other parts of the language. For this reason, EFL learners have difficulties to acquire the target language, especially prepositions. Learning prepositions in a foreign language is very difficult and confusing for EFL learners most of the time. It is very important to investigate the acquisition of prepositions by Albanian learners and the challenges that they face in learning them. A comparison will be made with English prepositions and Albanian prepositions during the learning process. During the acquisition of the target language, in this case, the English language, learners encounter many challenges that reduce their motivation and interest. On the other hand, there are many effective causes when comparing the fact of what happens when a student does not acquire the target prepositions appropriately by using the most useful learning strategies in classrooms and what happens when they do acquire prepositions correctly. The outcomes of this case study present valuable information to the teachers and future research; hence, there are a limited number of studies in this field.

Keywords

SLA prepositions teachers learners strategies