How learning the meaning and purpose of prefixes may help students become more fluent in English while maintaining their native language

Abstract

In morphologically rich languages such as Arabic, the abundance of word forms resulting from increased morpheme combinations is significantly greater than for languages with fewer inflected forms (Kirchhoff:2006). This research project investigates ways that students can improve their language learning and will not interfere with their mother tongue. Students differ from each other in their ways of improving their language proficiency and have different learning styles and attitudes. This research may help students to overcome problems that prefix cause while they learn a new language. I have chosen prefixes as my topic for this work because less attention is given to prefixes in General English Classes. From my experience as an English teacher, I taught English using more than one version of course books. Those course books have not deal with prefixes in word-building exercises