Open AccessAWARENESS ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF MORPHOLOGICALLY-COMPLEX WORDS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO VOCABULARY SIZE
Author(s) -
Chotibul Umam
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
celt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2502-4914
pISSN - 1412-3320
DOI - 10.24167/celt.v15i1.415
Subject(s) - indonesian , morpheme , vocabulary , reciprocal , psychology , test (biology) , linguistics , contrast (vision) , identification (biology) , subject (documents) , computer science , artificial intelligence , paleontology , philosophy , botany , biology , library science
The present study examines the relationship between the students' awareness on the internal structure of morphologically-complex words (henceforth MCWs) and English vocabulary size of Indonesian EFL learners. The participants are 111 Indonesian EFL learners who had taken English Morphology subject. Two types of tests are used; Morpheme Identification Test was used to measure the students' awareness on the internal structure of MCWs and the vocabulary size test is used to estimate their vocabulary size. To know the relationship between the two variables, correlational analysis with Kendall-tau formula is then applied. The result shows that both variables have a positive and significant reciprocal correlation.