The paper highlights the importance of Morphology in Linguistics and in the acquisition of new language. It outlines various elements forming the domain of morphology in brief and its role in learning of a new language in detail. Language acquisition is an interesting topic studied by most linguists from the time of inception of language learning as a cognitive science. The topic is still frequently studied by linguistic enthusiasts especially through the lens of morphological analysis. It is a secondary research paper.
The paper is a qualitative study to analyze the morphological awareness and other linguistic aspects based on the morphemic knowledge of English language students learning as second language. The objective of this study is to evaluate the role of morphology in their language acquisition. The study has been conducted among 70 college students as a primary and secondary research. The method used is a written mixed structured test divided in 3 sections. The results extracted give a fair idea on how this study was instrumental in establishing certain hypotheses. The level of morphological awareness among college students and its usage abilities are highlighted in the paper.
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