Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students

The importance of morphological awareness in the development of a learner’s vocabulary size has been well documented. A learner’s ability to analyse and synthesize morphemes at the word level, or coined as morphological awareness, is said to be a significant contributor to his or her vocabulary dev...

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Main Authors:	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza, Ahmad Zaki, Azimah
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Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2017
Subjects:	LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices)
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spelling	iium-547132018-04-02T08:16:19Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54713/ Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Ahmad Zaki, Azimah LB1025 Teaching (principles and practices) The importance of morphological awareness in the development of a learner’s vocabulary size has been well documented. A learner’s ability to analyse and synthesize morphemes at the word level, or coined as morphological awareness, is said to be a significant contributor to his or her vocabulary development. Thus, a learner who has morphological awareness would be able to rely upon their knowledge of a known word to help them derive the meaning of a related though unfamiliar word. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the analytic and synthetic aspects of morphological awareness of 100 Malay pre-university ESL learners. A modified version of the Morphological Awareness Test was used for this purpose1. Findings of this study revealed that, the students were better able at forming morphologically complex words as compared to their ability to identify morphemes at the word level. The overall results also showed that this group of participants’ morphological awareness level was somewhat low. This study has some practical implications for EFL vocabulary-strategy instruction in the Malaysian setting. American Scientific Publishers 2017-07 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54713/1/WICOIS%20paper%20-%20Morphology.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54713/7/54713_Analysing%20and%20Synthesising%20Morphemes_MYRA.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54713/8/54713_Analysing%20and%20Synthesising%20Morphemes_SCOPUS.pdf Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza and Ahmad Zaki, Azimah (2017) Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (5). pp. 4964-4967. ISSN 1936-6612 E-ISSN 1936-7317 (In Press) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/asl/2017/00000023/00000005/art00259 10.1166/asl.2017.8977
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description	The importance of morphological awareness in the development of a learner’s vocabulary size has been well documented. A learner’s ability to analyse and synthesize morphemes at the word level, or coined as morphological awareness, is said to be a significant contributor to his or her vocabulary development. Thus, a learner who has morphological awareness would be able to rely upon their knowledge of a known word to help them derive the meaning of a related though unfamiliar word. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the analytic and synthetic aspects of morphological awareness of 100 Malay pre-university ESL learners. A modified version of the Morphological Awareness Test was used for this purpose1. Findings of this study revealed that, the students were better able at forming morphologically complex words as compared to their ability to identify morphemes at the word level. The overall results also showed that this group of participants’ morphological awareness level was somewhat low. This study has some practical implications for EFL vocabulary-strategy instruction in the Malaysian setting.
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author	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Ahmad Zaki, Azimah
author_facet	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Ahmad Zaki, Azimah
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title	Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students
title_short	Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students
title_full	Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students
title_fullStr	Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students
title_full_unstemmed	Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students
title_sort	analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of malay pre-university esl students
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
publishDate	2017
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Analysing and synthesising morphemes: the case of Malay pre-university ESL students

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