1.Morphological Awareness and Some Implications for English Language Teaching.pdf

In the past decade there has been a surge of research interest in morphological awareness (MA), which refers to an individual’s ability to decode the morphemic structure of words and further analyze them. This review gives conceptual insights into MA from linguistic perspectives and provides some implications for English language teaching based on empirical research findings. Recent research into MA suggests that there is a significant rate of achievement among students who are exposed to strategies for not only understanding the meanings of words but also recognizing different morphological forms of the same word in reading texts, as opposed to students who are not exposed to such strategies. Indeed, a large number of studies conducted have established that MA is a critical factor in enabling comprehension and ensuring that students have a clearer understanding of vocabulary. In addition, it has emerged that for many educators, an emphasis on a clear understanding of such aspects as prefixes, suffixes, and roots determines the success rate in teaching vocabulary. Therefore, language teachers can engage in teaching MA in the classroom as part of explicit language instruction by adopting some instructional strategies that can be adjusted to suit each age group.

2.Sharon Inkelas, The interplay of morphology and phonology.pdf

Sharon Inkelas, The interplay of morphology and phonology. (Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology, 8)

3.The lexical semantics of language.pdf

Language can be regarded as one of the key words of English, as well as the foundational term of the discourse of linguistics. It is well to remember, however, that the concept of a language lacks precise semantic equivalents in many languages. This study presents a semantic-lexicographic analysis of several meanings of the word language in contemporary English, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage method of semantic description (Wierzbicka, 1996, 1997; Goddard, 1998, 2008). The study is similar in scope and approach to an earlier study (Goddard, 2005) of the word culture, which resembles language in several important respects. One distinctive aspect of the explications for language is their reliance on the proposed semantic prime WORDS, which is discussed at some length. Though primarily focused on English, the study makes reference to Yankunytjatjara, Chinese, and Russian, among other languages.