Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Predict Reading Resilience in Adults

Autor/inn/en	Farris, Emily A.; Cristan, Theodore; Bernstein, Stuart E.; Odegard, Timothy N.
Titel	Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Predict Reading Resilience in Adults
Quelle	In: Annals of Dyslexia, 71 (2021) 2, S.347-371 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Farris, Emily A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0736-9387
DOI	10.1007/s11881-021-00236-y
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Vocabulary; Predictor Variables; Reading Skills; Resilience (Psychology); Adults; Reading Comprehension; College Students; Norm Referenced Tests; Standardized Tests; High Stakes Tests; Reading Tests; Decoding (Reading) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Wortschatz; Prädiktor; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Leseverstehen; Collegestudent; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Lesetest; Dekodierung
Abstract	Resilient readers comprehend written language despite word reading deficits. The reading resiliency framework specifies candidate protective factors hypothesized to mitigate adverse effects on reading comprehension arising from phonological decoding deficiencies and, consequently, illuminates how some individuals exhibit relative reading resiliency. A focus on relative reading resiliency involves an examination of individual strengths and weaknesses because areas of relative strength can bolster one's abilities. The ability for morphological awareness and vocabulary to be strengths or protective factors contributing to reading resiliency was explored in a sample of university students. Morphological awareness is predicted to be a particularly important skill for university students due to the complexity of texts encountered in their coursework. A measure of word-level morphological awareness was positively associated with relative reading resiliency. Furthermore, across norm-referenced and standardized high-stakes testing measures of reading comprehension, vocabulary mediated the impact of morphological awareness on comprehension after controlling for phonological decoding ability. These findings suggest that morphological awareness and vocabulary skills are important contributing factors to reading comprehension and reading resilience. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01