Investigating Mother Tongue Effect In The Acquisition Of English Prepositions By Indonesia-Speaking Learners

The process of learning prepositions gets complicated most notably for learners English as foreign language (EFL) because they encounter challenges in grasping the manifold meanings and dissimilar contextual applications. This study is aimed at identifying sources difficulty that Indonesia undergo preposition. To this end, a multiple-choice test was designed to gather data regarding problems acquiring by UNIRA students English. comprised fifteen questions. Each supposed choice best possible answer out choices from list with correct In study, method research design used qualitative. results suggest meet considerable difficulties using prepositions. highly depend on their mother tongue, i.e. language, which poses source command enables producing inappropriateness preposition use.