List of publications on a keyword: «compounding»

The paper tells why derivational skills are important in teaching English vocabulary to young learners. The author of the paper focuses the readers’ attention on the following topics: why derivational analysis and knowledge of derivational patterns are important for a young learner in mastering the English language; what is a word family and how it can help young learners of English to enlarge their vocabulary. The author describes the three stages that young learners should go through to develop their derivational skills and the criteria that should be applied to in choosing tasks and exercises for each stage.

This article discusses the notion of medical slang which is an integral part of doctor's and other medical stuff professional activity. General means of word formation of english slang are affixation, compounding and word-cuts.