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 replace as tructured synthetic phonics approach and the other essential elements in the Science of reading.

During systematic phonics instruction in the early years, students can be taught the function ofm orphemes in reading and spelling by introducing simple plural suffixes such as ‘s’ whenr eading and writing CVC words. For example: pet= one pet pets= more than one pet (Shanahan, 2021).

Morphology

🌺Instructions 

Dear students,

Go through the notes and watch the YouTube videos.

This is an individual task. 

However, you may discuss among yourselves and do the exercises.

Notes 1

Notes 2

Notes 3

Notes 4

Exercises

Practice activity 👇

Please complete the TEST questions which are based on the NOTES and EXERCISES for the 'Morphology' topic in the link below 

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxc/nlp/InteractiveNLP/NLP_m_home.html

And please submit the tasks in the pdf in the Google drive folder 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BWaj7uVW9vCfY8wbb5SlHicvvuSEBtRL

Deadline 

2nd May 2024 (Thursday)

Thank you