Abstract
Students’ understanding about Morphosyntax is often low due to its complex processes. This study attempted to design a learning handout that would help students solve their writing problems particularly in Morphosyntax cases. This qualitative study was conducted at two Indonesian Universities, namely UNTAG Banyuwangi and IAIN Jember Indonesia. Six phases in Design Based Research (DBR) by Hoadley (2004) and four phases of DBR by Reeves (2012) were combined as the design of the research. Four classes with a total of 114 students participated and the lecturers of writing course and grammar course were involved. Following the mixed design of DBR by Hoadley and Reeves, this study produced a learning handout that, after tested at the second cycle, proved helpful to solve students’ Morphosyntax problems especially in Writing Class. The students facing writing problems decreased averagely 35-40% after they learnt writing using the produced learning handout. In this case, the needs to master more on Morphosyntax to support their English proficiency skills especially in writing has been solved.
Highlights
Morphosyntax as part of microlinguistics is the amalgamation of morphology and syntax
The end goal of this study is a writing material handout designed for learning Morphosyntax
The learning handout produced from this study entitles “Better Writing Through Morphosyntax”
Summary
Morphosyntax as part of microlinguistics is the amalgamation of morphology and syntax It plays a pivotal role in writing class in that they are the central of language forms. Badawi (2019) reports that EFL learners who comprehend the English word formations by combining prefixes, suffixes and roots are believed to acquire better achievement with their English than those who do not have such morphological knowledge. Due to its complex morphological, lexical, and syntactical changes, EFL learners may encounter some problems to learn and employ them in their writing. Morphosyntax learning will have a big impact on their understanding of word formations in morphological or syntactical level. Given its significance in language mastery in writing skill, it is necessary that this study be conducted for the sake of their academic achievement
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