by Dr. Jasmin (Bey) Cowin
To support teachers working with Ukrainian students, I prepared this grammar resource for teachers and students alike to showcase a morphology comparison between Ukrainian and English parts of speech. Morphological awareness has been related to literacy development including vocabulary development and reading comprehension (Ke & Xiao, 2015).
I believe that developing morphological awareness across both languages, enables both teachers and Ukrainian students to use their linguistic repertoire across languages and benefit from their multilingual resources.
Dr. Jasmin (Bey) Cowin
In addition, Translate Google is a useful tool for basic translations. Feel free to share my resource!
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References:
Ke, S., & Xiao, F. (2015). Cross-linguistic transfer of morphological awareness between Chinese and English. Language Awareness, 24(4), 355–380. doi:10.1080/09658416.2015.1114624 [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]
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