The Influence of Derivational and Inflectional Morphological Awareness on the Writing of Undergraduate EFL Students: An Empirical Study
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This current study aimed to investigate the influence of derivational and inflectional morphological awareness on the writing of undergraduate students studying English as a Foreign Language. They were divided in to two groups and each group comprised 200 advanced EFL learners. Explicit morphological instructions were given to group two in the classroom for full one semester whereas group one wasn't given any kind of morphological knowledge. To collect data, exactly the same lists of word-formation on different morphological processes and their use in the writing samples were administered to both the groups. The main objective of this research was to examine the correlation between the morphological awareness and the EFL writing after testing learners' reflection on word-formation. Then it also tried to explore the difference between their performances to check whether the morphological instructions improved their writing or not. The findings stated that group two students always performed far better than group one and showed a strong understanding of word-formation structure while applying and manipulating in the morphological-instructed tasks. The formulated hypothesis-the teaching of explicit morphemic rules improves not only morphological awareness to a large extent but also grammatical, intralingual, lexical and syntactic awareness that results to enhance collaboratively EFL writing competence. A promising contribution of this current study to pedagogy was that explicit…
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Acquiring inflectional morphemes by Arabic EFL learners in Saudi Arabia requires further research.
“Acquiring inflectional morphemes by Arabic EFL learners in Saudi Arabia requires further research (Khan, 2022;Abdalla, 2020;Wahid and Farooq, 2019).”
From Transformative impacts of explicit morphological instruction on irregular inflectional acquisition in Saudi EFL learners (2024) · cites this paper as Wahid and Farooq, 2019
The Participants section (p. 5) identifies the learners as Saudi undergraduates with Arabic as their first language, and the study examines their inflectional morphology. The Conclusion (p. 14) calls for further work in morphology, but gives compounding and other processes as examples; it does not specifically call for more research on acquiring inflectional morphemes. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Wahid, R., & Farooq, O.
- Affiliations
- King Khalid University (SA)
- Corresponding author
- Wahid, Rizwana
- ORCID
- Wahid, Rizwana
- Venue
- Arab World English Journal
- Publisher
- AWEJ Publishing
- Published
- 2019-03-15
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 242-258
- ISSN
- 2229-9327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2921791730
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Arab World English Journal (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- King Khalid University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- morphological awareness, derivational morphology, inflectional morphology, EFL writing, word formation, writing skills
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