Ways of Creating Prefixes and Suffixes and Foreign Language Teaching

The aim of this paper is to emphasize the issue of prefixes and suffixes in thearea of foreign language learning and teaching. In this respect, how they are formed isfocused on initially. Later, their types are given place. After this, prefixes and suffixesare taken separately with examples. At this step, tables are used to make it easy forlearners in understanding the meaning, function and usage of prefixes and suffixes.Then, ways of presenting prefixes and suffixes to learners is discussed, and it isfollowed by problems faced by Turkish learners in learning them. Ways of eliminatingthese problems is presented, as well. In the conclusion part, some ideas of the writer onthe subject matter as final remarks are clarified briefly.