Morphological Awareness Test among a Sample of English Language Department Students at the Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo, Al-Azhar University

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1 1Department of Educational Psychology and Educational Statistics, Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

2 Department of Curriculum and Teaching Methods, Faculty of Education, Al-Azhar University, Cairo

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The study aimed at constructing a morphological awareness test in English as a foreign language among English Language Department students at the Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo, Al-Azhar University, in addition to verifying the psychometric properties of the morphological awareness test in English as a foreign language. To meet such an end, the researcher administered the morphological awareness test in English as a foreign language to the third year students of the English Language Department at the Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo, Al-Azhar University, during the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022 (totaling 126 out of 204) students who were the study population members. Their ages ranged from 19 to 23 years, with a mean age of 19.96 years and a standard deviation of 1.02 years. To verify the psychometric properties of the morphological awareness test in English as a foreign language, the two methods of content validity and jury validity were used as two methods of calculating validity, in addition to using Kuder-Richardson 20 method as a method of calculating reliability. The results of the study indicated that the test was characterized by high coefficients of content and jury validity. The results of the study also showed that the morphological awareness test in English as a foreign language was characterized by acceptable reliability indicators; the value of the reliability using Kuder-Richardson 20 was 0.7434, which indicates the readiness of the test to be used to measure morphological awareness.
 

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