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Zhao, Ying; Wu, Xinchun; Li, Liping – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: Spelling is a prevalent strategy to teach children to read. However, research on the mechanism underlying the contribution of spelling to reading comprehension in Chinese children is limited. Methods: The primary aim of this study was to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal associations between spelling and reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension
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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Sarid, Miri – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The aim of the current study was to examine the role of morphological awareness (MA), in reading comprehension in second grade Hebrew-speaking students (n = 595). Three groups of readers (n = 595), formed according to the change in their derivational-awareness (DA) scores throughout the school year, were examined: Low-DA readers, improved-DA…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Semitic Languages
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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We examined the longitudinal contribution of awareness of inflections and derivations to reading comprehension in Arabic, a morphologically rich language, among 734 second graders. Morphological awareness, phonological awareness, word decoding and reading comprehension tasks were delivered at the beginning and at the end of the school year.…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Morphology (Languages)
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Li, Liping; Wu, Xinchun; Cheng, Yahua; Nguyen, Thi Phuong – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the relationship between character reading and spelling and to explore the role of reading-related skills in Chinese literacy. Methods: A test battery that included measures of morphological awareness (homophone awareness and compound word awareness), orthographic awareness, rapid…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Processes, Chinese, Spelling
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Desrochers, Alain; Manolitsis, George; Gaudreau, Patrick; Georgiou, George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In the present study, we examined the role of morphological awareness in reading and spelling performance across three languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, French, and Greek), after controlling for the effects of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (RAN). One hundred fifty-nine English-speaking Canadian, 238…
Descriptors: Literacy, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Reading Fluency
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Liu, Duo; Li, Hong; Wong, Kwok Shing Richard – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
In the present study, the mediating roles of syllable awareness, orthographic knowledge, and vocabulary skills and the moderating role of morpheme family size in the association between morphological awareness and Chinese character reading were investigated with 176 second-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. In the path analyses, the results…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Correlation
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Hao, Meiling; Chen, Xi; Dronjic, Vedran; Shu, Hua; Anderson, Richard C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
The research reported in this paper investigated the effects of semantic relatedness of words (closely related vs. distantly related) and morpheme type (free morpheme vs. bound morpheme) on young Chinese children's homophone awareness, an aspect of morphological awareness, in two experiments. The first experiment was a cross-sectional study…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Kindergarten, Semantics, Grade 2