The morphology-vocabulary- reading mechanism and its effect on students’ academic achievement in an English L2 context

Stoffelsma, Lieke; Spooren, Wilbert; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Antwi, Victor

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2020.100887

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“…Interestingly, morphological awareness was revealed to have a direct association with reading comprehension; suggesting that improved morphological knowledge of students might enhance the students' competence in reading comprehension. This finding corroborates the findings of Stoffelsma et al (2020) and Van de Werff (2020) who also reported a positive association between morphology and reading comprehension among studentsthough their foci were on English language. In all, it can be said that morphological awareness has a noteworthy relationship with reading comprehension in Chinese language whilst gender has no influence on students' knowledge in morphology and reading comprehension in Chinese language.…”

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Effect of Gender on Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension Competence in Chinese Language: Evidence from the University of Cape Coast

Opoku-Darko¹,

Nkrumah²

2022

AJEP

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Purpose: There are evidences that students studying Chinese language in Ghana find it difficult to read and form simple Chinese words using the Hànyǔ Pīnyīn system. Nevertheless, little is known of how gender influences morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese language, as well as the relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension. This study, thus, using a correlational research design, examined whether there is any difference between male and female students with respect to morphological awareness and reading comprehension, and the relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension. Methodology: Employing the census sampling technique, a sample of 100 BA Chinese students at the University of Cape Coast was involved in the study. Morphological awareness and reading comprehension tests were used to collect data from the participants. Data were analyzed using means, standard deviations, two independent samples t-test and the Pearson correlation coefficient. Findings: The results showed that there were no significant differences between male and female BA Chinese students in terms of morphological awareness and reading comprehension. It was further revealed that morphological awareness is positively associated with reading comprehension in Chinese language. It was, thus, concluded that improved awareness of morphology would enhance reading comprehension competence of BA Chinese students at the University of Cape Coast. Recommendation: It was suggested that the Ministry of Education Ghana introduce Chinese language studies into the basic and high school education systems in Ghana to ensure pre-exposure of students to the language before they enter institutions of higher education.

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Effect of Gender on Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension Competence in Chinese Language: Evidence from the University of Cape Coast

Opoku-Darko¹,

Nkrumah²

2022

AJEP

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“…It involves inflection and derivation of morphemes that are closely related to the process of learners' lexical acquisition. As some researchers argue, information about the meaning, pronunciation, and part of speech of a word is derived from its morphological knowledge (Nagy et al, 1993 ; Stoffelsma et al, 2020 ; Goodwin et al, 2022 ). In particular, morphological knowledge is a fundamental dimension for discovering what is in a word, through which learners deduce the word forms and access the morphemes, i.e., prefixes, roots, and suffixes, and these are essential for learners to develop the generic knowledge of vocabulary (Schreuder and Baayen, 1995 ).…”

Section: Morphology and Corporamentioning

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Developing morphological knowledge with online corpora in an ESL vocabulary classroom

Zhang

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Morphology is the study of word forms and the ways in which words are varied and related to other words in a language. It has been regarded as an essential discipline that is indispensable in language acquisition. It helps learners to figure out the word structure and meaning, particularly the meaning changing of morphemes, which is pivotal for defining words. The present study focuses on developing morphological knowledge with online corpora which are the useful tools for teaching and learning the changes happened in English. Given this light, this research reports an ESL vocabulary classroom in which the instructor designs vocabulary classroom activities with COCA, BNC, TIME MAGAZINE corpus to enrich students' English vocabulary knowledge, help them master word usage, and foster their corpus literacy. This study is oriented by the framework of Classroom Action Research (CAR). Students' classroom performances were recorded and their self-reflections of learning experiences were collected for thematic analysis. The results indicate that, firstly, students' morphological knowledge has been developed as well as their vocabulary knowledge; secondly, their vocabulary self-regulated learning motivation has been incentivised that they are able to answer their own queries about words; thirdly, students' corpus literacy has been fostered, which facilitates their ongoing vocabulary learning; last but not least, a community of inquiry has been established in which students collaborate to construct vocabulary knowledge. The study has wider implications for constructing the student-centered vocabulary classroom and implementing corpus-based instruction in other second language vocabulary classrooms.

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“…Morphemes in each language can be classified based on several criteria, including based on their freedom, integrity, meaning, and so on. The classification of morphemes is free morphemes are morphemes without the presence of other morphemes that can appear in speech (Sahin et al, 2006;Stoffelsma et al, 2020;Grodzinsky, 1984). For example, in Indonesian, the morphemes go home, eat, home, and good are free morphemes.…”

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Morphology in English

Camp

2020

MaMi

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This study aims to understand and explain the meaning of morphology in English in general. In addition, this research is also intended to understand and explain the meaning of morpheme and various morphemes in English. Morphology is the study of word structure. Morphology is a branch of linguistics that identifies the basic units of language as grammatical units. As in English, morphology is known as the science that studies word formation. The intricacies of morphemes and words in this section will be discussed in detail.

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The morphology-vocabulary- reading mechanism and its effect on students’ academic achievement in an English L2 context

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

Effect of Gender on Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension Competence in Chinese Language: Evidence from the University of Cape Coast

Effect of Gender on Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension Competence in Chinese Language: Evidence from the University of Cape Coast

Developing morphological knowledge with online corpora in an ESL vocabulary classroom

Morphology in English

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