خلاصة:
This mini-corpus, cross-linguistic, comparative, and norm-referenced study intends to render the most frequently and oft-used affixes in the written descriptive tasks in the performance of English language materials developers (ELMDs) and Iranian English language undergraduates (IELUs). Samples of writings of both groups were studied and analyzed through affixation principles. The frequency of nearly 63 affixes both inflectional and derivational morphemes was taken into account. The statistical analysis showed a highly significant correlation (.86) with (.75) coefficient determination (shared variance) between the performance of IELUs and ELMDs. The result of the study bears approximately a close resemblance to the findings by Bauer et al.(1982), Fry and Kress (2006), Honig, Diamond, Gutlohn, and Mahler (2000), and White, Sowell, and Yanagihara (1989). Finally, the implications of the study were taken into account.
ملخص الجهاز:
ir Abstract This mini-corpus, cross-linguistic, comparative, and norm-referenced study intends to render the most frequently and oft-used affixes in the written descriptive tasks in the performance of English language materials developers (ELMDs) and Iranian English language undergraduates (IELUs).
Some of the chronologically- listed of these studies were done by Berko (1958), Hakuta (1976), Larsen- Freeman (1975), Krashen, Sferlazza, Feldman, & Fathman (1976), Makino (1980), Pica (1983), Bybee (1985), and Tarone (1988).
In fact, it deals with how derivational and inflectional characterization may play a role in rhetoric variation; in other words, how the use and frequency of affixes may contribute to the morphological composition of descriptive writing; consequently, it would reveal which bound (affixes) morphemes play central roles in semantic characterization of a written product to convey its message like studies done by Nagy, Diakidoy, and Anderson (1993); (2) a common descriptive type of study prevalent in second language writing research (Polio, 2012), dealing with the analysis of written tasks in the terms derivational and inflectional morphemes (affixes) to focus on problematic areas; (3) a quantitative study intended to elicit highly frequent bound morphemes in terms of the most frequent ones to the least frequent ones like studies done by Fry and Kress (2006); Honig et al.
(4) a corpus-based study which mostly deals with the frequency of affixes in the performance of both ELMDs and IELUs to take care of consistency in the frequency of affixes used in inner circle of English with its outer circle; (5) a content analysis of second language writing.