The Effects of Morphological Awareness on L2 Vocabulary Knowledge of Thai EFL Young Learners

Morphological awareness (MA) is the ability to recognize words, identify association between lexically attached parts of a word and create new lexical forms. instruction mediates acquisition words is, therefore, crucial for developing morphological vocabulary knowledge. Currently, receptive-productive continuum MA remains unclear, especially in an EFL context. This quasi-experimental study investigates how affects morphologically complicated its impact on knowledge among young Thai learners. Six receptive productive measures four were administered 221 While participants control group did not get this instruction, experimental received explicit teaching awareness. A repeated ANOVA (with scores several aspects affixes as dependent variable) with cohorts measure (time point) was conducted probe learners’ The findings demonstrated encouraging effect English language classrooms. Specifically, showed improved performance both MA. suggests that morphologies may benefit learners understanding ease acquisition. Other implications these are debated, considering current pedagogical practice theory.