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Direct linkKieffer, Michael J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
This study investigated the role of morphological awareness weaknesses in the reading difficulties encountered by Spanish-speaking language minority learners and their native English-speaking peers in sixth grade. One hundred and thirty-eight students (82 language minority learners; 56 native English speakers) were assessed on English measures of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Reading Comprehension
Kieffer, Michael J.; Box, Catherine DiFelice – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study investigated the multiple roles of morphological awareness in reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority (LM) learners and their native English-speaking (NE) peers. Sixth-grade students (N = 137; 82 LM, 55 NE) were assessed on English measures of derivational morphological awareness, morphologically complex academic…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Speech Communication
