English language
uses units of meaning called morphemes to form words.
Free morphemes
which words can stand by themselves, example “girl” and bound morphemes which
need to be bound to a free morpheme.
In English, the
information “plural number” is attached to a word that refers to some person,
creature, concept or other nameable entity (in other words, to a noun) when
encoded in a morpheme and cannot stand alone. Take the word ‘reactor’ as an
example. Based on the information above it could be stated that it consists of
two morphemes: a stem actor and a derivational morpheme re-.
The importance of
learning morphemes is:
1. Primary
school children of all ages have difficulties of spelling words when the
spelling cannot be predicted from the way the word sounds. For example, the spelling of ‘magician’ is not predictable from the way it sounds.
The first ‘a’ sounds more like an ‘i’ , while the ending sounds like ‘shen’ or
‘shun’. But if we know that its spelling represents the morphemes ‘magic’ and
‘ian’, we can make sense of its spelling.
2.
Children’s difficulties with the spelling of many
words can be reduced by making them aware of the morphemes that compose the
words.
3.
Making children more aware of morphemes has a
positive effect on their vocabulary growth.
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