DIFFICULTIES IN UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING ENGLISH IDIOMS IN SPEAKING OF ENGLISH MAJORED JUNIORS AT TAY DO UNIVERSITY IN VIETNAM

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It is undoubted that speaking plays an indispensable role in exchanging information, news, culture, literature and sciences among people globally. In other words, English speaking skill facilitates communication and understanding between people who come from various cultures and speak different languages. Owing to the significance of speaking, it is employed as a fundamental subject to English majored students. Nevertheless, speaking is not an easy subject for students to master. Thus, this study aimed at investigating the difficulties that students often encountered when applying English idioms in their speaking. This was a qualitative research. The questionnaire and interview were used as two major instruments to gain the most reliable findings. To achieve the goal, 74 English majored juniors from English 14A, B, C at Tay Do University were selected randomly as the sample for this research. The results showed that English majored juniors faced many difficulties in understanding and applying English idioms in speaking at Tay Do university, in Vietnam consisting of vocabulary, grammatical structures and cultural aspects.

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