The enrichment of the vocabulary through morphological patterns by the EFL students.

Abstract

One thing that teachers, students, and researchers can all agree upon is that learning vocabulary is an essential part of mastering a second language.Also, vocabulary is regarded as one of the most essential parts of second language acquisition and can be broadly defined as knowledge of words and word meaning. This study aims at giving good techniques and strategies of teaching vocabulary to the Albanian students who learn English as a foreign language, by means of the morphological patterns, especially, through affixation patterns.We strongly believe the idea of morphological awareness, which has to do with the consciousness of the word meaning and the structure of morphemes in relation to words. The more students know about the affixation patterns and their combinations to root words, the more they develop and enrich their vocabulary.The use ofprefixes and suffixes knowledge and pattern while teaching English vocabulary and its effect to the students of English, is also shown by the results of a survey conducted. Based on the resultsthere are drawnsome conclusions and effective strategies and recommendations are given to all the teachers of English language.