Challenges of Phrasal Verbs to Ecology and Environmental Protection Students

Résumé

Phrasal verbs have always posed a significant challenge for those involved in the English language learning and teaching processes. This might be due to the fact that they are so many as there are numerous possibilities of recombining the lexical items that already exist in English. Phrasal verbs are idiomatic expressions that have special meanings, which can be sometimes challenging. The present paper aims to provide some theoretical aspects regarding phrasal verbs, including various classifications and syntactic patterns focusing on those frequently used in the selected field. It also aims at identifying the main problems students may face when they try to use phrasal verbs in their own speech or when they encounter them in various texts, which are specific to their area of specialty.