DIFFICULTIES FACED BY UZBEK STUDENTS IN LEARNING ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Аннотация

Learning English has been increasingly common for all people, irrespective of their background, around theworld. They aim toreach higher score in theiracademicand career fields by learning this language. While there are clear benefits, but I believe that they experience many challenges related to pronunciation, grammar and sentence completion. In this thesis, some grammar difficultiesfaced byUzbek students willbe discussed. Key words: word-order, grammatical rules, prepositions,tenses, articles English is not only the communication thing, which is clear for most people over the world, but also is the language with confusing grammar for Uzbek students. For instance, word order is the most challenging one. Because the uzbek language is in Turkic language family, but The English is in Indo-European language family. So, their word-order is very different from each other. “In Uzbek language word-order is subject + object + verb and in English this is subject+verb+object” mentioned by Kutlimuratova Barno in her thesis. In English language we make sentences: “ I eat an apple every day ”, but in Uzbek language we say: “ I every day an apple eat “. These two different types of sentence structure is challenging for both of the billinguals and polyglots. ” Uzbek grammar is vastly different from English grammar, making it challenging for students to learn and comprehend the English language's grammatical rules. For example, in Uzbek, the word order is subject-object-verb, while in English, it is subject-verb- object. The difference in grammar rules can lead to confusion and difficulties in learning and understanding the language”, - mentioned Barno Kutlimuratova and Urazbay Abdullaev intheir thesis. The second grammatical difficulty is having the main 12 tenses in the English language. This is the most problematic issue, because every beginner uzbek student should learn and differentiatethetheme oftenses. For example: 1. Present continuous: Iam working now. 2. Present simple:I dothistask everyMonday. 3. Present perfect: I havecleaned thisroom. 4. Present perfect continuous: Ihave been cleaning thisroom for fivehours. 5. Pastcontinuous: Iwas working. 6. Pastsimple: Idid it. 7. Pastperfect: I hadtalked about that before. 8. Pastperfect continuous: Ihad been talking. 9. Future continuous:I willbe cleaning this room. 10.Future simple: Iwill clean thisyard. 11.Future perfect: Iwill havefinished thistask by4AM. 12.Future perfect continuous: Iwillhave been cleaning thisyard for two hours. 717 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHERS ISSN:3030-332X Impact factor: 8,293 Volume 11,issue1,April2025 https://wordlyknowledge.uz/index.php/IJSR worldly knowledge Index: googlescholar, research gate, research bib, zenodo,open aire. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ru&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=wosjournals.com&btnG https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Worldly-Knowledge https://journalseeker.researchbib.com/view/issn/3030-332X The confusing side is having the uzbek language only three tenses, such as Past tense, Present tenseand Future tense. As aresult, students may have a confusion regarding with usingwhich tense(s)are correct. The third challenging thing is having articles in English, which does not have in Uzbek language. For example, I have a dog. In translation from one language to another these articles are dropped. Also, there is not any equivalence in Uzbek language. But it is in Uzbek version: “Mening kuchugim bor”. There is not used any article in this sentence. According to Sura Mutlak Nasser, starting to learn a/an, the articles is difficult for English as a Foreign Language students (EFL). It can cause a lot of mistakes in the learning language, as a result, student mayresult lower score in examination. Apart from Sura Mutlak Nasser, Akhmad and Khan considered the English articles is the most challenging matter. Moreover, Hasbun mentioned the English articles are very difficult, when there is no any article in learning students’ mother tongue. (Ahmad and Khan, 2019) Cakir and Abdumalik mention , “ Grammar is the backbone of any language”, which means a person learning a new language can not integrate with other people in the language, if sheorhe does notknow thebasicrules ofgrammar. Rina Listia and Emma Rosana Febriyanti ( Lambung Mangkurat University) say, “ The primary goal of learning a foreign language is to be able to communicate in the language, both in spoken and written form”. The next problematic issue is making different tense forms helping the same auxiliary verb. For example, am/is/are auxiliary verbs can make Present continuous, Passive voice of Present continuous and Present simple. For instance, she is working. Work is being done by her. Work is done by her. In spite of their same auxiliary verbs, all of which have different meanings from each other. Of course, these forms can be confusing for Foreign Language students in Uzbekistan. Rina Listia and Emma Rosana Febriyanti advice using various techniques, such