Inportance of having morphological knoweldge In Teaching

Question 1

Why having a morphological knowledge important in teaching ?

Answer 1

:) to develop students language acquisition.
Enhance vocabulary

:) to facilitate the learning process.
Which prefixes to use to create adjs
To find up opposites or negatives.
How to make plurals

:) arouse morphological awareness.
Morphological awareness = expanding voc+better understanding

:) to promote students language accuracy.
When students become creative with words to correct them if wrong.
Ex: ness with a wrong root

Question 2

How to offer morphological awareness

In the classroom?

Answer 2

Keiffer and lesaux (2009,2012)

• Promoting vocabulary teaching
• Teaching students to recognize combination of small units within words
• teaching studnets suffixes,prefixes,roots
• teaching cognates (words smiler in spelling) and meaning in native language.

Incorporate lessons rich with vocabulary
Strategies and activities to support the students morphological knowledge
Affix cards.