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Derivative Word Forms: What Do Learners Know? Schmitt, N. & Zimmerman, C.B., (2002).

Derivative Word Forms: What Do Learners Know? Schmitt, N. & Zimmerman, C.B., (2002). TESOL Quarterly, 36 (2), 145-169. Presented by Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman, Ph.D. TESOL Program Department of Modern Languages and Literatures CSUF cbzimmerman@fullerton.edu November 3, 2010.

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Derivative Word Forms: What Do Learners Know? Schmitt, N. & Zimmerman, C.B., (2002).

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  1. Derivative Word Forms: What Do Learners Know? Schmitt, N. & Zimmerman, C.B., (2002). TESOL Quarterly, 36(2), 145-169. Presented by Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman, Ph.D. TESOL Program Department of Modern Languages and Literatures CSUF cbzimmerman@fullerton.edu November 3, 2010

  2. Background of Study • Common Assumption • Previous Research • Resulting Research Design for this Study

  3. Authority Assume Traditional Select Philosophy Access Ethnic Liberal Minimum Release Survive Ideology Inevitably Coherent Persist Examples of Words from The Academic Word List (AWL ) Coxhead, A. (2000). A new academic word list. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 213-238.

  4. Research Design Word Family Knowledge is studied in how it relates to Overall Word Knowledge. • Overall word knowledge is addressed with a scale approach (Test of Academic Lexicon: TAL) • Word Family Knowledge is addressed with a productive derivative test (Later referred to as Test of English Derivatives: TED)

  5. Test of Academic Lexicon (TAL)

  6. Test of English Derivatives (TED) Example: Precise Noun A doctor must work with ________. Verb A doctor ___________. Adjective Medical care requires _____ work. Adverb Doctors must work _____________.

  7. Test of English Derivatives (TED) Example: Precise Noun A doctor must work with precision. Verb A doctor _____X______. Adjective Medical care requires precise work. Adverb Doctors must work precisely.

  8. Derivative Forms Produced for Words Rated at Each TAL Level(Abridged form of Table 3 ; n=86)

  9. Derivative Forms Produced for Words Rated at Each TAL Level

  10. Words for Which Participants ProducedZero, One, Two, Three and Four Derivative Forms

  11. Conclusion • So the jump from receptive to productive knowledge is reflected in better mastery of productive derivative forms in each of the 4 word classes. But • The assumption that learners automatically pick up the various derivative forms is probably incorrect.

  12. Bottom Line To Know a Word means to know a great deal about it. Derivative knowledge cannot be taken for granted.

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