Abstract:
The aim of this study is to identify the influence of morphological analysis
strategy employed by Palestinian 10th grade-female students in guessing and
manipulating complex words in addition to using these words in meaningful
sentences. This study involved 75 female students from Idna Secondary
School for Girls at Hebron governorate. The sample of the study was
assigned to control group (37 students) and experimental group (38 students)
from two different sections. To achieve the aims of the study, morphological
structure test based on students’ textbook has been given to both groups in
form of pretest/posttest. Meanwhile, the experimental group has received
treatments on morphological analysis strategy prior to the post-test, whereas
the control group hasn’t received any treatment except for the traditional way
of teaching for the same two units. Results showed that the experimental
group has outperformed the control group as they scored higher grades. They
also scored better results in identifying the syntactic category of English
words depending used in context.
Machine summary:
Consequently, this study aims to enhance vocabulary learning through morphological analysis strategy that may bring about autonomous learners who depend on themselves to find meanings of unknown words rather than depending on their teachers.
Finally, both groups took a post-test with the same tool and the results showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the process of guessing the meanings of complex words depending on the morphological analysis.
To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, very little research, if any, has been conducted on the Palestinian primary or secondary school students using the morphological strategies to improve students’ ability in discovering the meanings of unknown vocabulary items.
4. 1 Instruments To answer the present study’s questions of the effect of morphological analysis strategy on vocabulary learning among Palestinian female 10th grade students, a pre-post-test was the instrument applied to achieve the purpose of the study.
1 Analysis of Question One Is there any statistically significant difference between the means of students’ achievement in vocabulary learning for both control and experimental groups?
com Volume 3, Number 2, June 2018 {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} morphological analysis of complex words brings about a significant improvement in vocabulary learning and an increase in students’ vocabulary repertoire.
The pre-test was carried out by subjects prior to teaching students morphological analysis strategy of complex words.
8. Conclusion Since the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group, this means that the traditional way of teaching complex words to students is greatly less effective than using the morphological analysis strategy.