The Acquisition of English Derivational Morphology by Arab Speakers: Empirical Testing  

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Al-Qadi, Nassir Saleh

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 1-2 (1992), page 89-107.
Fulltext: 14_01-02_Al-Qadi.pdf (1.14MB)

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Despite its importance to the foreign learner, English derivational morphology is often neglected in EFL and ESL classrooms and teaching materials. This is a result of vocabulary negligence as a whole and of priority being given to rules of grammar. This paper tests the relative difficulty for Arab speakers in their acquisition of aspects of English derivational morphology. This testing depends on previous work by the author through identifying major similarities and differences between written Standard Arabic and written Standard English through contrastive analysis. Results confirm that predictions of the contrastive analysis are very useful in the acquisition of English derivational morphology; hence, they should be considered by English teachers, language acquisition researchers, textbook-designers, and methodologists.

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