Explicit Morphological Instructions And English Vocabulary Mastery

One of essential elements of English is vocabulary. English has enormous number of vocabularies, therefore, mastering English is frequently troublesome for most of Indonesian students who learn English as a foreign language. Every English teacher in Indonesia are encouraged to use effective ways or strategies in teaching vocabularies. One of recommended ways of teaching vocabularies is using explicit morphological instructions. This means that English teachers have to explain or discuses explicitly the morphological components of English like how English words are constructed. The English teacher may introduce how affixation, compounding or clipping work in English vocabulary building. The researchers as English lecturer commonly hear the complaints of English university students about the difficulty of learning English vocabulary. Besides the huge number of English vocabularies, the limitation of learning time, and the differences between the English and Indonesian language system commonly become the causes of this struggle. Based on this situation, the researchers concurred to conduct action research to overcome this problem. This book is a monograph of a study entitled “Promoting Students’ English Vocabulary through Explicit Morphological Instructions and Exploring Students’ Voices”. This monograph consists of Five Chapters called Chapter I (Introduction), Chapter II (English Vocabulary), Chapter III (Morphology), Chapter IV (Explicit Morphological Instructions), and Chapter V (The Example) Some relevant documents to this study are also attached on the appendixes. The appendixes consist of the test questions, the observation sheet, the questionnaire, and the teaching materials.