Morphological processing in a second language Research Papers (original) (raw)
Esta obra se acerca a cuestiones que atañen al ámbito morfológico en su relación con el E/LE. No es un manual generalista sobre morfología y E/LE, sino un compendio de artículos que, partiendo de diferentes perspectivas, busca abrir... more
Esta obra se acerca a cuestiones que atañen al ámbito morfológico en su relación con el E/LE. No es un manual generalista sobre morfología y E/LE, sino un compendio de artículos que, partiendo de diferentes perspectivas, busca abrir puertas en este campo: desde precisiones sobre cuestiones de adquisición de lenguas segundas hasta propuestas concretas de actividades para el aula; desde la presentación de problemas que ofrecen las unidades morfológicas del español hasta reflexiones sobre la (in)adecuación de diversos acercamientos a la reflexión gramatical en el E/LE; desde panorámicas sobre el camino seguido por la indagación morfológica en metodología con corrientes hoy ya desfasadas hasta ajustadas presentaciones de las propuestas teóricas y pedagógicas más en boga en los últimos años.
Galls are plant tissue which is controlled by the insect. Galls are outgrowths on the surface of leaf caused by invasion of various organisms like Bacteria, Fungi, Insects, Parasites and Mites. Galls may be found on leaves, stems, twigs,... more
Galls are plant tissue which is controlled by the insect. Galls are outgrowths on the surface of leaf caused by invasion of various organisms like Bacteria, Fungi, Insects, Parasites and Mites. Galls may be found on leaves, stems, twigs, branches, trunks and roots. There are hundreds of unique galls caused by insects and mites. They are formed on a variety of plants and in a broad range of sizes, shapes, colors and textures. Some galls are common and abundant and easily noticed. Others are rare or less conspicuous. This paper reports physicochemical study in leaf galls of Syzygium cumini. The parameters assayed were Total ash, acid insolubility and water solubility values and extractive values (Alcohol, water and petroleum ether).
Although morphological knowledge has been proposed to enhance second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition, little is known about which morphological process has the greatest impact on lexical acquisition. To address this question, 400... more
Although morphological knowledge has been proposed to enhance second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition, little is known about which morphological process has the greatest impact on lexical acquisition. To address this question, 400 school-learners of English from high schools in Saudi Arabia were presented with a morphological decomposition task of regular and irregular inflection and derivation , and an L2 vocabulary size test. The results indicated some significant levels of correlation between knowledge of regular inflection and derivation, and L2 vocabulary knowledge. Irregular inflection and derivation, on the contrary, were not found to have a significant effect on L2 vocabulary acquisition. Although significant correlations were observed between regular morphology and L2 vocabulary learning, regression analysis showed that only regular inflection processing has a sizable effect on vocabulary uptake. This variable explained about 38% of the variance per se. The findings also revealed no clear effect of the first language (L1) regularity of morphological rules, which apply extensively in Arabic, on acquiring words that are regular in English. The overall findings propose an explicit focus on teaching regular inflectional morphology in the language classroom because of its marked influence found on vocabulary acquisition.