Task 4: Morphology
MORPHOLOGY Morphology is the conventional system by which the smallest units of meaning in words -bases, prefixes and suffixes; combine to form complex words (Bowers, P. N., Kirky, J.R., &Helene Deacon, S). In its simplest form it is the study of the structure of words and theirm eanings. Some studies have found that explicit teaching of morphology can have a positive impact onr eading comprehension; including significant progress for students with English as an additional Language or Dialect (Amirjalili & Jabbari, 2018). There is also evidence thate xplicitly teaching students the patterns for morphemes had a significant effect on improvingd ecoding and phonological awareness (Goodwin & Anh, 2013). It is important that children are taught the interrelation between morphology, phonology and etymology, as when we combine all three areas, it teaches children how our writing systemw orks (Bower & Shanahan, 2021). Morphological instruction however, should never...