An-Najah J. Res. Vol. 2Number6( 1992) Dr. RamiHamdallah ENGLISHWORD FORMATIONAND ITS PEDAGOGICALIMPLICATIONS FOR EFL Dr. Rami Hamdallah* ABSTRACT English word-formation is usually taken for-grantedby teachersand planners ,and wordsarestillassigned to...
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An-Najah J. Res. Vol. 2Number6( 1992) Dr. RamiHamdallah ENGLISHWORD FORMATIONAND ITS PEDAGOGICALIMPLICATIONS FOR EFL Dr. Rami Hamdallah* ABSTRACT English word-formation is usually taken for-grantedby teachersand planners ,and wordsarestillassigned to classes(noun,verb ,adverb ,adjective ...) by a teciadquewhich goesback for twomillennia (Matthew ,1974) , This paper has two aims :first to review types of English word-formation and ,second ,todiscussthe need forword-formation teachingin EFL . Introduction : EFL course-book designers and planners tend to ignore processes of word-formation .For example :students learn sunny as a vocabulary item to describe the weather .However ,no exercise is given to exaplain to the learnerthat the word sunnyis formed by sun +the suffix-Y .
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