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Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks

  • Tomáš Gráf and Kateřina Vašků
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Paradigms in Word Formation
This chapter is in the book Paradigms in Word Formation

Abstract

Developing morphological awareness is an effective learning strategy which can simplify learning L2 vocabulary. The present chapter explores how far morphological-awareness activities are represented in over 100 international ELT coursebooks, 10 teacher training manuals and 17 practice books. The results show the coverage is rather low and unsystematic except in specialist manuals for vocabulary teaching and vocabulary practice books. Even in them the quality varies. Materials mostly focus on affixation and are not based on research findings. Attention should be paid to presenting teachers and teacher-trainees with more information on teaching derivational paradigms, and to introducing existing research and reliable materials which contain quality exercises and explicit information for students as well as ideas for classroom use.

Abstract

Developing morphological awareness is an effective learning strategy which can simplify learning L2 vocabulary. The present chapter explores how far morphological-awareness activities are represented in over 100 international ELT coursebooks, 10 teacher training manuals and 17 practice books. The results show the coverage is rather low and unsystematic except in specialist manuals for vocabulary teaching and vocabulary practice books. Even in them the quality varies. Materials mostly focus on affixation and are not based on research findings. Attention should be paid to presenting teachers and teacher-trainees with more information on teaching derivational paradigms, and to introducing existing research and reliable materials which contain quality exercises and explicit information for students as well as ideas for classroom use.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Dangerous liaisons 3
  6. Part I. Theoretical background
  7. Chapter 2. For a topology of derivational paradigms 21
  8. Part II. Compounding
  9. Chapter 3. Interlocking paradigms in English compounds 59
  10. Chapter 4. Fact-checking on compound verbs in English 69
  11. Chapter 5. Paradigm families in compounding 99
  12. Chapter 6. Derivational paradigms 129
  13. Part III. Conversion
  14. Chapter 7. Paradigmatic aspects of deverbal noun conversion in English 155
  15. Chapter 8. Paradigms in English and Czech noun/verb conversion 181
  16. Chapter 9. Conversion in a paradigmatic framework of word formation 215
  17. Chapter 10. Complex verbs 249
  18. Part IV. Participles
  19. Chapter 11. Structural and lexical aspects of the morphology of English participles 285
  20. Chapter 12. English participles in the derivational paradigm 319
  21. Part V. Paradigms in ELT
  22. Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks 343
  23. Index 379
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.225.13gra

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Dangerous liaisons 3
  6. Part I. Theoretical background
  7. Chapter 2. For a topology of derivational paradigms 21
  8. Part II. Compounding
  9. Chapter 3. Interlocking paradigms in English compounds 59
  10. Chapter 4. Fact-checking on compound verbs in English 69
  11. Chapter 5. Paradigm families in compounding 99
  12. Chapter 6. Derivational paradigms 129
  13. Part III. Conversion
  14. Chapter 7. Paradigmatic aspects of deverbal noun conversion in English 155
  15. Chapter 8. Paradigms in English and Czech noun/verb conversion 181
  16. Chapter 9. Conversion in a paradigmatic framework of word formation 215
  17. Chapter 10. Complex verbs 249
  18. Part IV. Participles
  19. Chapter 11. Structural and lexical aspects of the morphology of English participles 285
  20. Chapter 12. English participles in the derivational paradigm 319
  21. Part V. Paradigms in ELT
  22. Chapter 13. Derivational paradigms in ELT textbooks 343
  23. Index 379
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