English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession

This highly accessible book presents an overview of English morphology for all those involved in the English-language teaching industry. For non-native learners, the ability to recognize and produce new words in appropriate circumstances is a challenging task, and knowledge of the word-building system of English is essential to effective language learning. This book clearly explains the morphology of English from the point of view of the non-native learner and shows how teachers and professors can instruct EFL students successfully with effective materials. Covering the scope of the task of teaching English morphology specifically to non-native learners of English, bestselling authors Bauer and Nation provide a range of strategies and tactics for straightforward instruction, and demonstrate how teachers of English as a foreign language can easily integrate learning of the morphological system into their language courses. This book helps teachers and learners make sensible decisions about where to focus deliberate attention, what to be careful about, and what not to be concerned about. It offers a range of shortcuts, tips and tricks for teaching, and gives detailed practical information on topics including: - Sound and spelling - Possessives - Comparative and superlative - Past tense and past participle - Making nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and words with prefixes - Learned word-formation. This book is essential and practical reading for graduate students on English-language teaching courses, preservice teachers, consultants, practitioners, researchers and scholars in ELT.

Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. I.S.P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Chapter 1: Learning English Morphology. Chapter 2: Assumptions. Chapter 3: Sound and Spelling. Chapter 4: Plural of Nouns. Chapter 5: Possessives. Chapter 6: Comparative and Superlative. Chapter 7: Third Person Singular -s. Chapter 8: The -ing Form of the Verb. Chapter 9: Past Tense and Past Participle. Chapter 10: Numbers. Chapter 11: Compounds. Chapter 12: Making Nouns. Chapter 13: Making Verbs. Chapter 14: Making Adjectives. Chapter 15: Making Adverbs. Chapter 16: Making Words with Prefixes. Chapter 17: Making Words without Affixes. Chapter 18: Learned Word-Formation. Chapter 19: Morphology and Frequency.