Challenges of the Complexity of Spanish Grammar Structure among Students in Expressing Opinions and Ideas

This study aims to identify the difficulties and challenges related to lexical and morphological choices faced by Malaysian students when expressing opinions in Spanish as a foreign language. To achieve the study's objectives, data was collected through selected quizzes, oral exercises, and interviews with chosen students. A total of 60 students participated in this study, and their 60 responses were analyzed. The data, analyzed through a descriptive qualitative approach, reveals a series of difficulties encountered by students in terms of lexical and morphological selection, which hinder Malaysian students from producing grammatically correct sentences when expressing opinions in Spanish, supported by quantitative data. Other challenges faced by the students include sentence construction involving verbal conjugation, grammatical gender, and lexical mastery. The findings of this study can serve as a guide for planning to enhance the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, making it easier to understand and shaping more suitable and effective activities to help students improve their language proficiency and ultimately produce grammatically correct sentences.