The contribution of morphological instruction to morphological awareness and reading: An integrative experiment on Turkish EFL learners

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 263 - 278, 01.07.2019

Fatma Demiray Akbulut

https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.558986

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate the
contribution of morphological instruction on awareness of morphology and its
effects on reading. The participants were 74 freshmen studying at Translation
and Interpreting Department and were distributed into experimental and control
groups. The results have shown that the experimental group outperformed the
control group on all four tasks of morphological awareness including root
analysis, derivations and correction of affixes. On the tasks of reading
vocabulary experimental group outperformed the control group again,
demonstrating positive effects of morphological instruction. It is concluded
that morphological treatment benefited morphological awareness and in turn,
reading comprehension. The results also demonstrate that submitting an explicit
treatment to the EFL learners on morphology helps them improve morphological
awareness which is correlated with reading comprehension

Keywords

Morphology, morphological awareness, lexical teaching, reading, reading comprehension

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