Investigating obstacles in learning English among first-year students

Abstract

Цель данной статьи — исследовать сложности, возникающие у первокурсников при изучении английского языка, который является одним из основных предметов для студентов языковых специальностей Монгольского университета науки и техники.

First-year students are beginners or novices, who are naive students in their first year in higher educational institutions. This paper aims to investigate freshmen s obstacles in learning the English language which is one of the core subjects for language-majoring students in Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST). Thirty-three first-year students from the School of Foreign Languages, MUST participated in this study. The data was collected through closed and open-ended questionnaires. The findings of the study revealed that students would like to improve their vocabulary knowledge rather than grammar structure. Moreover, the study showed that students are not experienced in learning independently as learning motivation is vital in learning process.