Morphological awareness training following the principles of MSL learning

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Morphological awareness training following the
principles of MSL learning
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Morphological awareness training

• Morphemes are the smallest linguistic units with
  a meaning (e.g. unhappy, unlucky,
  unsatisfied) or a grammatical function (e.g.
  looks, looked),
• Some words cannot be further broken down (e.g.
  car), they are free morphemes since they can
  stand alone,
• Bound morphemes (e.g. un-, -s, or -ed) are
  always attached to some other morphemes

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Morphological awareness training

• Bound morphemes (affixes) are classified into
  prefixes, which attach to the beginning of words,
  and suffixes, which attach to the end of words,
• Bound morphemes can be also divided, according to
  their function in complex words, into
  derivational and inflectional morphemes,

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Morphological awareness training

• Derivational morphemes have a power to derive
  (create) new words, either by changing the
  original words meaning (e.g. un- added to
  happy) or its part of speech (e.g. -ness
  added to quick),
• Inflectional morphemes do not form new words but
  change the existing ones by refining and giving
  extra information (e.g. -s added to cat).

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Morphological awareness training

• Inflectional morphemes occur at the end of a
  word, following derivational morphemes,
• In English there are eight inflexional morphemes,
  they all are suffixes (-s 3rd person singular
  present, -s plural, -ed past tense, -ing
  progressive, -en past participle, -s
  possessive, -er comparative and -est
  superlative)

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Students use cards and movable devices with words
and morphemes to form word families
educate education educated uneducated educating educator educators educational employ employed unemployed employment unemployment employee employer fresh refresh refreshments freshly freshman freshness refresher
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Morphological awareness training

• Mark the base word in the following word family
• formal formality formalize formally
• informally informal informality
  formalist formalistic
  formalist
• formal formality formalize formally
• informally informal informality
  formalist formalistic
  formalist

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Morphological awareness training

• Find the words that do not belong to a belief
  family
• beliefs disbelief
  believable beautifully
  disbelieve
• unbeatable unbelievably
  believer unbelievable
  non-believer

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Morphological awareness training

• Choose the odd one out in each group
• differently, differential, difficult,
  difference, different, differ
• central, certain, centrally, center,
  centralization
• perfect, perfection, prefect, imperfection,
  perfectionist, imperfect

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Morphological awareness training

• Do the following pairs of words belong to the
  same family?
• friend/friendliness
• casual/causal
• enable/unable
• praying/playing
• filing/filling
• science/scientist

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Morphological awareness training

• Sort the words to form two word families
• friend painful painfully
• friendship friendly
  pain
• painless painkiller
  unfriendly 

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Morphological awareness training

• Split the words into its constituent morphemes
• correct corrective
  correctional
• incorrect incorrectly
  corrections
• correctly correctness
• correct incorrectly
• corrective corrections
• correctional correctly
• incorrect correctness

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• Based on
• Nijakowska, J. (2010). Dyslexia in the foreign
  language classroom. Bristol Multilingual
  Matters.
• Jurek, A. (2008). Ksztalcenie umiejetnosci
  ortograficznych uczniów z dysleksja (Developing
  orthographic skills in dyslexic learners).
  Gdansk Wydawnictwo Harmonia.
• This project has been founded with support
  from the European Commission.
• This publication communication reflects the
  views only of the author, and the Commission can
  not be held responsible for any use which may be
  made of the information contained therein.