What is morphemic analysis? Which basic semantic elements are related to teaching morphemic analysis?

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Morphemic analysis refers to the process that determines a word?s meaning through examination of its prefix, root, and/or suffix. A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning. It may be a word, a prefix, a suffix, or a root. A syllabic analysis involves chunks of sounds, but morphemic analysis is concerned with chunks of meaning. Instruction must be generative and conceptual rather than mechanical and isolated. Frequency of occurrence, number of words in the word family, and transparency (phonological or orthographical type) also determine whether morphemic units are utilized to learn meaning. Several semantic elements are involved: Prefixes (added before a word, relatively few in number, tend to be consistent and have constant and concrete meanings) Suffixes (added after a word, harder to learn than prefixes, are derivational if they change the part of speech or function of the word, are inflectional if they mark grammatical elements) Root words (core part of a more complex word, seen with increasingly abstract and difficult reading material, often appear with high frequency among many words, can transfer to other words)