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Wang, Zhenliang; Xie, Ruibo; Wu, Xinchun; Xia, Yue; Yu, Yanling; Nguyen, Thi Phuong; Cheng, Zizhuo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background and Aims: Morphological awareness is an essential ability for successful reading. This study aimed to explore the contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension (RC) in Chinese. Particularly, this study sought to determine whether the relation between morphological awareness and RC differs across various facets of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Metalinguistics
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Zhang, Dongbo – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study examined transfer facilitation effect of first language morphological awareness on second language lexical inference ability among Grade 6 Chinese-speaking English as a foreign language learners in China. A set of paper and pencil tests was administered to measure children's morphological awareness and lexical inference ability in both…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Native Language, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics
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Chen, Xi; Ramirez, Gloria; Luo, Yang C.; Geva, Esther; Ku, Yu-Min – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study evaluated the impact of two metalinguistic factors, English derivational awareness and English-Spanish cognate awareness, and the impact of two sociocultural factors, maternal education and children's length of residence in Canada, on English Language Learners (ELLs)' vocabulary knowledge. The participants of the study were 89…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Chinese, English (Second Language)