IMPORTANCE OF MORPHOLOGICAL AWARENESS TO ACADEMIC WRITING AMONG SECOND LANGUAGE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Hani Qasem Mohammed Asaad, Ahmad Affendi Shabdin

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This conceptual paper emphasizes the importance of morphological awareness to academic writing. It aims to shed light on the importance of morphological awareness, affixes, morphemes, and morphological patterns to second language postgraduate students. It also aims to demonstrate the possible benefits of raising morphological awareness, such as increasing the students’ vocabulary knowledge and making them capable of manipulating their vocabulary, which could lead to automatic control of vocabulary production while writing and, eventually, enhance their academic writing skill. Moreover, the current paper addresses the importance of morphological awareness to academic writing supported by the results of previous studies conducted and related to morphological awareness. The present study also presents the theoretical models of writing reported in the literature to make a prediction about the importance of morphological awareness and its role in improving the academic writing of second language postgraduate students.

 

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morphological awareness, academic writing, productive vocabulary knowledge, second language postgraduate students

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