Roles of Morphological Awareness in the Reading Comprehension of Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Learners: Exploring Partial Mediation by Vocabulary and Reading Fluency

Autor/inn/en	Kieffer, Michael J.; Biancarosa, Gina; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette
Titel	Roles of Morphological Awareness in the Reading Comprehension of Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Learners: Exploring Partial Mediation by Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2013) 4, S.697-725 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716411000920
Schlagwörter	Role; Morphology (Languages); Second Language Learning; Reading Comprehension; Phonemics; Reading Fluency; Listening Comprehension; Spanish Speaking; Language Minorities; Multivariate Analysis; Path Analysis; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; English (Second Language); Reading Processes; Vocabulary Development; Psycholinguistics; Decoding (Reading) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Morphology; Morphologie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Leseverstehen; Fonemsystem; Hörverständnis; Sprachminderheit; Multivariate Analyse; Pfadanalyse; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Leseprozess; Wortschatzarbeit; Psycholinguistik; Dekodierung
Abstract	This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions via three hypothesized mediators for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade ("N" = 101). Results indicated a significant unique contribution of morphological awareness, controlling for phonemic decoding, listening comprehension, reading vocabulary, word reading fluency, and passage reading fluency. Results further indicated significant indirect contributions of morphological awareness via reading vocabulary and passage fluency, but not via word reading fluency. Findings suggest that morphological awareness may play multiple important roles in second-language reading comprehension. (As Provided).
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