1st Edition
English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession
This highly accessible book presents an overview of English morphology for all those involved in the English-language teaching industry. For non-native learners, the ability to recognize and produce new words in appropriate circumstances is a challenging task, and knowledge of the word-building system of English is essential to effective language learning. This book clearly explains the morphology of English from the point of view of the non-native learner and shows how teachers and professors can instruct EFL students successfully with effective materials.
Covering the scope of the task of teaching English morphology specifically to non-native learners of English, bestselling authors Bauer and Nation provide a range of strategies and tactics for straightforward instruction, and demonstrate how teachers of English as a foreign language can easily integrate learning of the morphological system into their language courses. This book helps teachers and learners make sensible decisions about where to focus deliberate attention, what to be careful about, and what not to be concerned about. It offers a range of shortcuts, tips and tricks for teaching, and gives detailed practical information on topics including:
- Sound and spelling
- Possessives
- Comparative and superlative
- Past tense and past participle
- Making nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and words with prefixes
- Learned word-formation.
This book is essential and practical reading for graduate students on English-language teaching courses, preservice teachers, consultants, practitioners, researchers and scholars in ELT.
1. Learning English morphology
1.1 Word building
1.2 The scope of the task
1.3 The importance of morphological knowledge
1.4 What learners need to know
1.5 How to develop morphological knowledge
1.6 How to give deliberate attention to word parts
1.7 Testing knowledge about morphology
1.8 Applying the knowledge found in this book
2 Assumptions
3 Sound and spelling
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sounds
3.3 Spelling rules
3.4 Sound rules
4 Plural of nouns
4.1 The regular case
4.2 Umlaut plurals
4.3 Plurals with voicing of the last base consonant sound
4.4 N-plurals
4.5 Regular plurals of nouns ending in <o>
4.6 Unmarked plurals
4.7 Foreign plurals
4.8 Plurals with an apostrophe
4.9 Problems with plurals
4.10 Words with only plural form
5 Possessives
5.1 Introductory remarks
5.2 Possessives on pronouns
5.3 Possessives on nouns
6 Comparative and superlative
6.1 Introductory comments
6.2 Adjectives
6.3 Adverbs
7 Third person singular -s
7.1 Irregular forms
7.2 The regular case
8 The -ing form of the verb
9 Past tense and past participle
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The regular verbs
9.3 Irregular verbs
10 Numbers
10.1 The basic numbers
10.2 13-19
10.3 20-90
10.4 Ordinal numbers
10.5 Distributive numbers
10.6 Oddities
11 Compounds
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Verbal nexus compounds
11.3 Endocentric compounds
11.4 Other types of compound
12 Making nouns
12.1 Nouns from other nouns
12.2 Nouns from verbs
12.3 Suffixes associated with people
12.4 Suffixes primarily denoting events
12.5 Nouns from adjectives
13 Making verbs
13.1 Making verbs with suffixes
13.2 Making verbs with prefixes
14 Making adjectives
14.1 Adjectives from nouns
14.2 Adjectives from verbs
14.3 Adjectives from other adjectives
15 Making adverbs
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The suffix -ly
15.3 Other suffixes
16 Making words with prefixes
16.1 Negation
16.2 Location
16.3 Size
16.4 Numbers
17 Making words without affixes
17.1 Relationships between words of the same form
17.2 Relationships between words with related but different form
18 Learned word-formation
18.1 Greek compounds
18.2 Latin verbs
19 Morphology and frequency
Biography
Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
I.S.P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
