Arabic-L:PEDA:When to teach root and pattern system

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1) Subject: When to teach root and pattern system

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Date: 04 Jan 2014
From: Robert Ricks <rsricks at gmail.com>
Subject: When to teach root and pattern system

When it comes to instructing students in root-and-pattern morphology and
vocabulary learning strategies, my philosophy is along the lines of the old
Tammany Hall political maxim "Vote early and vote often." Introduce some
version of this concept as early as students are prepared to understand it
(a few useful ideas have already been suggested by other commenters), and
then reinforce this with increasing complexity throughout the first two
years of the curriculum.

An apposite reference is Giselle Khoury's 2008 dissertation "Vocabulary
Acquisition in Arabic as a Foreign Language: the Root and Pattern
Strategy." One of her recommendations is that "the root and patterns system
be trained starting as early as the first semester as an integral part of
lexical development activities."

Best,

Robert

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