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Morphological Awareness and Its Relationship to Vocabulary Knowledge Complexity among Iraqi EFL University Students

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Author	Yasin, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Jawad, Huda Falah
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This paper examined the relationship between morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in Iraqi EFL University Students. The study was conducted on 30 postgraduate students, majoring in School of Language Studies, and Linguistics, from The National University of Malaysia (UKM). Two morphological awareness tasks (morpheme identification task and morphological structure test) were used to assess the students' morphological awareness. The Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) is adapted from Nation (Nation 2013), to examine the students' knowledge of words drawn from the 2000, 3000, 5000. Then the results were correlated in order to find out whether morphological knowledge plays any role in vocabulary knowledge of Iraqi students or not. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the students‟ overall morphological Knowledge and their vocabulary Knowledge. The results also shown that students performed better in analysis section than what they did in synthesis section but the differences between them were low and there was a high correlation between analytic and synthetic knowledge so that analytic knowledge could highly predict synthetic knowledge and vice versa. The findings of this study led to the suggestions to improve Iraqi students' English learning in general and their vocabulary Knowledge in particular through using morphological Awareness as a very useful vocabulary learning strategy. Moreover, morphological awareness didn’t differentiate between the students’ performance on complex words and simple words.
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