The course “Word formation of the English language” is one of the branches of Linguistics, and aimed at developing in students’ awareness of the dynamic nature of words, their meanings and their many users. It deals with the basics of word formation and on through how words have meanings. Also, relationships with other words are considered as well, how they inter-relate with grammar, how they attract one another and gather in groups like collocations or multi-word items. The operation of words in spoken and written texts is another point of consideration.
The course “Word formation of the English language” has been structures around four modules. Each module consists of three-four main topics and they divided into several sub-topics. Module 1 starts with the forms of the words, major and minor types of word production, affixation, and pronunciation. Module 2 looks at how the words have meanings, the notion of words having more than one meaning, connotative and denotative meanings. Module 3 focuses on multi-word items: collocations, phrasal words, idioms and lexical chunks. The module is about how two or more words occur together and their meanings. Module 4 introduces word relations: grammatical relationship, sense relationship and hierarchical one.