tailieunhanh - Teaching academic ESL writing part 22

Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching academic esl writing part 22', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 198 CHAPTER 8 First it is important to keep in mind that for many NNSs who are not speakers of Romance Germanic or other Indo-European languages learning the meanings of prefixes roots and suffixes most of which have Latin or Greek origin creates an additional learning burden Nation 2001 . This is particularly true about the many words whose meaning does not represent the sum of its meaning parts Schmitt 2000 . For example does the de- in demonstrate have the same meaning as it does in denounce or deliberate Also is the prefix in antipollution related to the one in antiquity To further complicate matters an ability to identify meanings of prefixes word roots and suffixes requires L2 learners to parse words correctly. As many teachers know from experience this is certainly not an easy task even for NSs of English. Thus having students work on prefixes roots and meaningful suffixes . -less -en may be of somewhat limited value when it comes to learners actual ability to apply their skills to understanding and producing academic text. For this reason learning new vocabulary by means of learning word parts may not always be the most efficient way to expand a student s lexical range. In spite of all the complexities associated with teaching prefixes and suffixes a number of prefixes suffixes and word roots are so common in academic discourse that it may be difficult to do without them . non- il- intro- post- . In teaching productive and transparentword parts should be selected carefully because devoting effort to learning many others may bring benefits reduced relative to the invested labor and time. An additional argument for teaching prefixes and suffixes is that some amount of incidental vocabulary learning can result because first of all learners are exposed to and work with advanced academic lexis. For example relationship verbs include several with widely used prefixes con- de- and in- and helping learners notice them and apparent similarities in verb .