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
Highlights
In linguistics, the relationship between morphological awareness and success in reading is one of the best supported hypotheses in today’s research area
The first research question concerned with whether there is a significant correlation between Morphological awareness (MA) and Reading vocabulary awareness (RVA) tasks when two groups are attached to the analysis
Morphological awareness and reading vocabulary were correlated with distributional aspect to the experimental group treated with morphemes and parts of speech to a higher degree compared to control group
Summary
The relationship between morphological awareness and success in reading is one of the best supported hypotheses in today’s research area. The morphology of a language controls how words are built and what combinations of morphemes are conceivable or unthinkable It is characterized as the investigation of inside structures of words and word arrangement forms (Carlisle, Goodwin, & Nagy, 2013). Morphological awareness is the capacity to consider and control morphemes and to utilize wordformation rules of a language (Kuo & Anderson, 2006). This control can be developed by the help of using technology in morphological analysis such as in Morphological Pairing Model (MPM) (Demirezen, 2018). Morphological learning alludes to effectively utilizing morphological units which might be without conscious awareness (Yucel-Koc, 2015), morphological awareness is characterized as the capacity to consider, dissect and control the morphemic components in words (Carlisle, McBride-Chang, Nagy, & Nunes, 2010)
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