ABSTRACT
Young native speakers learn much of the morphological system of English largely without any direct instruction, and young learners of English as a second language who live and participate in the culture of an English-speaking country learn in much the same way. Every English sentence involves some use of the English morphological system, and one of the very important ways in which a learner’s vocabulary grows is through adding more members to existing word families. Learners know some complex English words, within the first few months of learning English, there should be consciousness-raising directed at seeing the parts in words and at becoming aware of members of word families. The amount of attention given to this consciousness-raising will depend on the age of the learners and whether their first language also contains similar morphological processes. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
