Children's Morphological Awareness and Reading Ability

Autor/inn/en	Kirby, John R.; Deacon, S. Helene; Bowers, Peter N.; Izenberg, Leah; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Parrila, Rauno
Titel	Children's Morphological Awareness and Reading Ability
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 25 (2012) 2, S.389-410 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-010-9276-5
Schlagwörter	Children; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3; Morphology (Languages); Phonological Awareness; Reading Tests; Test Reliability; Predictor Variables; Reading Ability; Reading Rate; Accuracy; Reading Comprehension; Nonverbal Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Morphology; Morphologie; Lesetest; Testreliabilität; Prädiktor; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit; Leseverstehen
Abstract	We investigated the effects of morphological awareness on five measures of reading in 103 children from Grades 1 to 3. Morphological awareness was assessed with a word analogy task that included a wide range of morphological transformations. Results indicated that the new measure had satisfactory reliability, and that morphological awareness was a significant predictor of word reading accuracy and speed, pseudoword reading accuracy, text reading speed, and reading comprehension, after controlling the effects of verbal and nonverbal ability and phonological awareness. Morphological awareness also explained variance in reading comprehension after further controlling word reading. We conclude that morphological awareness has important roles in word reading and reading comprehension, and we suggest that it should be included more frequently in assessments and instruction. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10