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Longitudinal Effects of Different Aspects of Morphological Awareness Skills on Early Spelling Development
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Grigorakis, Ioannis; Manolitsis, George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The purpose of this 3-year longitudinal study was to examine the role of three morphological awareness (MA) aspects (inflectional, derivational, and lexical compounding) in the spelling of specific morphemes. Two hundred and fifteen Greek children were followed from kindergarten (K) to grade 2 (G2). In K and grade 1 (G1) they were tested on…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Metalinguistics
The Development of Young Chinese Children's Morphological Awareness: The Role of Semantic Relatedness and Morpheme Type
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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
Using Multiple Measures of Morphological Awareness to Assess Its Relation to Reading
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Apel, Kenn; Diehm, Emily; Apel, Lynda – Topics in Language Disorders, 2013
Purpose: Morphological awareness refers to the ability to consider and manipulate consciously the smallest units of meaning in language. In previous studies investigating students' morphological awareness, no consistent task has been used to measure this skill across grade levels and comparisons among studies have been based on tasks, which…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Skills, Reading, Kindergarten
Six Differentiated Strategies for ESL Literacy for Birth to Third Grade Developmentally Disabled and Normal Students of Hispanic Heritage
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Jaramillo, James; Jaramillo, Olga – Online Submission, 2013
When one effectively employs the strategies of exploratory-learning, wait-time, intervention, guided reading, meaning, and phonological-morphological-syntactical awareness-for infants and on up-to 3rd grade students-all-in a Montessori-like-learning-literacy-setting replete with semantical interactions with phonology, syllabology, morphology, and…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Syntax, Phonology, Reading Comprehension
Morphological Awareness Intervention with Kindergartners and First- and Second-Grade Students from Low Socioeconomic Status Homes: A Feasibility Study
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Apel, Kenn; Brimo, Danielle; Diehm, Emily; Apel, Lynda – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: The effect of a morphological awareness intervention on the morphological awareness and literacy skills of students from low socioeconomic status homes was investigated. Method: A 9-week intervention designed to increase awareness of affixes and the relations between base words and their inflected and derived forms was conducted with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Tense Shifting in Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners
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Swasey Washington, Patricia; Iglesias, Aquiles – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
Young monolingual children typically demonstrate frequent tense shifting during narrative development, whereas older children maintain a consistent narration tense. Therefore, inconsistent tense usage in older children could be an indication of overall limited language skills. However, information regarding tense use in bilinguals has been…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Morphemes, Kindergarten