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Wang, Hua-Chen; Li, Luan; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine; Castles, Anne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Morphological knowledge is known to be positively associated with reading ability. However, whether morphological knowledge affects children's learning of new orthographic representations is less clear. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate morphological effects on orthographic learning in English, and whether this effect, if any, is different…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Learning Processes, Spelling, Task Analysis
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Jöbstl, Viktoria; Kargl, Reinhard; Prattes, Anna E.; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Landerl, Karin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
Morpheme-based literacy training programs are widely used in German primary schools. This study investigated whether (1) morphological training is effective early in development (Grade 2) and (2) literacy gains can be attributed to advanced morphological processing. Fifty-two German-speaking second-graders participated in an eight-week…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Spelling, Intervention, Morphology (Languages)
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Allen, Abigail A.; Lembke, Erica S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a morphological awareness intervention on the spelling and writing of second-grade (n = 16) and third-grade (n = 10) students at risk for learning disabilities. The intervention was provided for 25 min per session 4 to 5 times per week for 5 weeks. Students were randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Task Analysis, Intervention
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Terry, Nicole Patton – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
Children's spoken nonmainstream American English (NMAE) dialect use and their knowledge about phonological representations of word pronunciations were assessed in a sample of 105 children in kindergarten through second grade. Children were given expressive and receptive tasks with dialect-sensitive stimuli. Students who produced many NMAE…
Descriptors: Phonology, Nonstandard Dialects, North American English, Metalinguistics
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Bialystok, Ellen; Peets, Kathleen F.; Moreno, Sylvain – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This study examined metalinguistic awareness in children who were becoming bilingual in an immersion education program. The purpose was to determine at what point in emerging bilingualism the previously reported metalinguistic advantages appear and what types of metalinguistic tasks reveal these developmental differences. Participants were 124…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Metalinguistics, Immersion Programs, Syntax