Abstract:
This study examines the relationship between morphological awareness and
vocabulary size in Sudanese students as EFL learners. The aims of this present
study is to , investigate to what extent the students are aware of analytic and
synthetic word formation rules, determine the relationship between
Morphological awareness and vocabulary size and determine the Morphological
awareness between students performance on complex and simple words. The
results reveal that students displaced low overall Morphological awareness of
word formation. The results also show that the students vocabulary size is
relatively low. This indicate that they will struggle to understand on an average
text. The study recommends to administer Morphological awareness test and
vocabulary test separately to minimize cognitive load on the students. Teaching
affixes to promote students vocabulary size.The Participants in the study were 30
Sudanese EFL learners. All the participants completed the test. Descriptive
statistics, reliability measures and correlation coefficients were calculated and
reported. The results indicate that, the students’ overall morphological awareness
and vocabulary size were limited, and that the relationship between the two
constructs could not be established, owing to the appearance of floor effect in test
scores and task difficulty. Although no statistical relationship was established
between morphological Awareness and vocabulary in this study, it is premature to
discount the potential Importance of morphological awareness in the L2
vocabulary development, particularly for the type of learner examined in this
study.
