Teacher’s morphological awareness and errors in teaching English

Abstract

Morphology is the study of words and their structure, focusing on the relationships between morphemes. This study aims to examine teachers’ morphological awareness and errors in teaching English. A qualitative content analysis method was employed, with one English teacher as the participant, selected based on their extensive teaching content on YouTube. Observation sheets and criterion- referenced assessment (CRA) were used as data collection techniques. The findings indicate that the teacher's morphological awareness score is 71.42%, classifying them as "aware." Additionally, 24 morphological errors were identified in the teacher’s video content. Among these, misinformation was the most frequent type of error, accounting for 79.16%, followed by disordering (12.5%) and omission (8.33%).In conclusion, while the teacher demonstrates moderate morphological awareness, a significant number of misinformation errors suggest areas for improvement in morphological instruction.