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Teaching compound nouns with the first adjective coloring component at practical English course classes for future teachers

Гунченко, Ю.В.

In this work, compound nouns made up of two elements – an adjective and a noun are being analyzed, with focus on frequency of their immediate constituents, structure and semantics of the compounds analyzed with the aim to show the importance of compounds studying for future language teachers training. Compounds studying contributes to strengthening the foreign language learners’ morphological awareness, which is crucial for understanding the ways more complicated language units are built. Awareness of the ways of vocabulary formation enhances future teachers’ vocabulary proficiency and therefore has undeniable impact on their teaching strategy improvement. Study of the essence and specifics of these processes will enable language teachers to direct their students’ attention towards word-formation with the focus on the structure and etymology, and therefore - semantics, thus helping them understand the compound unit structure and meaning. In terms of compound nouns semantics, there exist several types of meaning, each representing different level of transparency. Among potential obstacles to forming an exhaustive classification of word formations ways there is a variety of compound words types as well as parts of speech that take part in word formation, and difficulties that arise during the analysis of compound words

English

2025

word formation

Дрогобицький державний педагогічний університет імені Івана Франка

Hunchenko Yu. Teaching compound nouns with the first adjective coloring component at practical English course classes for future teachers / Yu. Hunchenko, T. Korol // Актуальні питання гуманітарних наук. – 2025. – Вип. 86. – Т. 4. – С. 81–84. – DOI: https:// https://doi.org/10.24919/2308-4863/86-4-13

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