The Effect of Raising Morphological Decomposition Awareness on Lexical Knowledge of Complex English Words

Fahimeh Marefat؛ Mohammad Abbasnejad

دوره 5، شماره 14 ، آذر 1390، ، صفحه 25-40

چکیده
  Lexical knowledge of complex English words is an important part of language skills and crucial for fluent language use. This study aimed to assess the role of morphological decomposition awareness as a vocabulary learning strategy on learners’ productive and receptive recall and recognition of complex English words. University students majoring English at the English department of Kerman University were randomly assigned to three groups: form-focused group whichlearned the words by being morphologically decomposed to them; meaning-focused group to which ...  بیشتر