Measuring productive derivational knowledge of the most frequent words.

Derivational knowledge is associated with writing and speaking skills. These skills are essential for EFL students who express themselves in oral presentations or written assignments. Therefore, diagnostic measurement of productive derivational knowledge is of vital importance, especially in regard...

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Author: Barouni Ebrahimi, Alireza
Format: article
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Murcia
Repository:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/110961
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.412191
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/110961
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Derivational knowledge
Productive derivational knowledge
Measuring productive derivational knowledge
Most frequent words
Conocimiento derivacional
Conocimiento derivacional productivo
Evaluación derivada productiva
Medición del conocimiento derivacional productivo
Palabras más frequentes
CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas
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Summary:Derivational knowledge is associated with writing and speaking skills. These skills are essential for EFL students who express themselves in oral presentations or written assignments. Therefore, diagnostic measurement of productive derivational knowledge is of vital importance, especially in regard to the most frequent 1,000 word families that cover 81% and 85% of written and spoken text. This study measured 46 Iranian university EFL students’ productive derivational knowledge of the words at the 1,000 word frequency level. The findings indicate that while participants had the productive form-meaning knowledge of the words at 1,000 level, they did not seem to have extensive derivational knowledge of the same wo