The customer's guidance is for your review;Now, analyze this paper by identifying all instances of coordination and subordination. How might your classmate utilize examples of this technique to improve their work? Why?Frank N. Pafume28 April 2013Teaching Children Morphemes
NOTE: the identified instances of coordination and subordination have been underlined.Children learn their first language skills in the home without having any concepts of grammar. As they learn to speak, their parents do not identify words by their parts of speech. They do not explain the necessary elements of sentences, action verbs, phrases versus clauses, etc. Rather, the toddler begins to increase his vocabulary from various sources, including books parents read him/her, listening to television, etc. Obviously, these youngsters have no idea they are using morphemes in their new speech habits.Words have meanings. Every word consists of morphemes. Many educators worked together to provide a series of books about improving learning skills for children from an early school age through several years into advanced grades. The editors of Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes wrote that, Morphemes . . . are of immense importance in children’s learning of the meaning of new words and also in their learning how to read and write familiar . . . words” (3).
Many students in university language classes may or may not have had any exposure or instruction of these linguistic elements. And educators continue to examine evidence to decide if this approach is successful at any grade level. The task is to teach students how morphemes affect language.The first grade students use simple words, base morphemes. Examples of base, root, or free morphemes include cat, dog, move, walk, and friend among countless more. The early learner does not know that these small words have affixes, including prefixes and suffixes, added to them to change the word’s form. Inflectional and derivational affixes change the grammatical structure of the word into bound morphemes.The single free morpheme changes from the singular to plural with the added inflectional affix –s. The base morpheme changes the tense with the added inflectional affix –ed. A derivational morpheme changes the root word to another word, a bound morpheme. For example, befriend, friendly, and friendship changes the meaning of the word.Perhaps learning this morphological system involving the use of morphemes may help students to understand the meaning of the word. Phonetics, or the phonological approach, may aide in spelling or speaking properly, helping young students to feel comfortable to attack new words as they build their vocabulary. Older children, for example those beyond elementary school, may benefit from morphemes as they learn to comprehend their reading that includes new difficult vocabulary as they learn to analyze the different parts of words to help improve their reading comprehension, to understand better what they are reading. There must be, however, a carefully examined and specific methodology to accomplish this successfully.
He can now confirm what the term coordination and subordination means by looking at the similarity of the highlighted word. He seems to have taken them as synonyms which are not true. This was his first mistake.
It can also help my classmate realize where he went wrong when putting down this article. Coordination and subordination are meant to put phrases together to enable reduce redundancy in sentences. Some places really need to be adjusted e.g. ‘’meanings. Every’’ this needs a conjunction.this analysis will be a challenge to my classmate to go back to his notes and reread and understand them better. This is because from the way he coordinates and subordinates his phrases is wanting for instance ‘’and educators continue to examine evidence’’ the conjunction ‘and’ being used at the beginning is not appropriate.
Lastly, he will have to realize hen to use coordinating conjunction and when they are to be used. This will make his exercise and understanding of this topic be easier than before.
Works cited:
Nunes, T. et al, eds. Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2006.
