AVOIDANCE OF THE ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS AS A STRATEGY IN LEARNING PROCESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, JEMBER UNIVERSITY 2011 AND 2012 ACADEMIC YEARS

Abstract

As a part of learning strategy, avoidance is one of the strategies that is usually used by learners to avoid error production and to overcome difficulties in the learning process. In the English learning process, one of the skills learned by the learners is phrasal verbs. Indonesian learners that do not have phrasal verb structure in their language (L1) will find troubles in applying English phrasal verbs and have tendency to apply avoidance. Avoidance of phrasal verbs belongs to lexical avoidance strategy. Lexical or vocabulary avoidance strategy occurs because there is a semantic difference between L1 and L2, L1-L2 differences and also L1 and L2 similarity. More specifically, semantic complexity has a great role in avoidance (Laufer and Eliasson, 1993:46). Furthermore, Hulstijn and Marchena (1989:242) also say that EFL learners of English avoid phrasal verbs because the differences between transparent and nontransparent meaning of phrasal verbs also give an influence. Li (1996:182) also states that semantic or structural aspects of target language features contributed to avoidance