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The Role of Morphological Awareness in the Development of Reading Comprehension in Hebrew-Speaking Second-Graders
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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
Effects of Multilinguistic Word Study Instruction on Word Reading and Spelling in the First Grade: Increasing Metalinguistic Knowledge as an Instructional Goal
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Maryellen A. Leelman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A nonrandomized quasi-experimental, mixed-method double pretest-posttest design was used to compare the effects of a multilinguistic word study model of instruction -- RAVE-O program (Wolf, Miller, & Donnelly, 2000) -- in comparison with a phonics word study model of instruction -- Fountas and Pinnell Phonics Lessons -- Letters, words, and how…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Grade 1
A Dynamic Measure of Morphological Awareness and First-Grade Literacy Skill
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Wolter, Julie A.; Gibson, Frances E.; Slocum, Timothy A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this feasibility study was to investigate an early dynamic measure of morphological awareness (MA) involving graduated prompts to measure early MA skill and determine whether this task relates to and predicts performance on other language and/or literacy measures in first-grade children with language abilities typically…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Literacy, Grade 1
Morphological Processing Influences on Dyslexia in Greek-Speaking Children
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Rothou, Kyriakoula M.; Padeliadu, Susana – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
The study explored the inflectional morphological awareness of Greek-speaking children with dyslexia in grade 3. The sample consisted of 24 dyslexic children and 32 chronological age-matched typically developing readers. All participants completed two oral experimental tasks of inflectional morphological awareness (i.e., verb inflections and…
Descriptors: Greek, Dyslexia, Language Processing, Metalinguistics
Kindergarten Children Can Be Taught to Detect Lexical Ambiguities
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Kamowski-Shakibai, Margaret T.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigates the development of metalinguistic skills, particularly ambiguity detection, and whether training accelerates this development for prereaders in kindergarten (5;5-6;6). It is the first to compare homophone detection with lexically ambiguous sentence detection in which the same homophones appear. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition
How Does a Metalinguistic Phonological Intervention Impact the Reading Achievement and Language of African American Boys?
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Russell, Jeannette; Drake Shiffler, Molly – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Researchers consistently find a correlation between low literacy levels and high school dropout rates, expulsion, reading achievement, and failing grades for African American males. Low literacy achievement in African American males may result from multiple factors, including dialectic linguistic differences and/or phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Reading Achievement, Intervention, Phonology