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Estelle Ardanouy; Pascal Zesiger; Hélène Delage – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Morphological awareness has been shown to contribute to the acquisition of literacy in various languages. The current study focuses on an explicit derivational morphology training program in French-speaking fourth graders with the aim of measuring direct effects on morphological awareness and transfer effects on spelling and reading. The intensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4
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Reder, Fanny; Marec-Breton, Nathalie; Gombert, Jean-Emile; Demont, Elisabeth – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The awareness of the formal structure of language has been widely studied in the literature but less in a bilingualism context. Even less with second-language learners (SLL) who are acquiring their second language (L2) and are not considered as bilinguals. Aims: This study aimed at providing an investigation of young SLL's skills in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, German, Monolingualism
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Quemart, Pauline; Casalis, Severine; Duncan, Lynne G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
We examined whether French third- and fifth-grade children rely on morphemes when recognizing words and whether this reliance depends on word familiarity. We manipulated the presence of bases and suffixes in words and pseudowords to compare their contribution in a lexical decision task. Both bases and suffixes facilitated word reading accuracy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5