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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Morphological awareness"”.
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Morphological awareness and spelling development
… this thesis is to analyse the relation between morphological awareness and morphologically based spellings, in Portuguese (European Variant). Two situations where the spelling is determined by morphology are examined: when the spelling flouts letter-sound correspondence rules (consistency in the …
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Development of Morphological Awareness in Chinese and English
Although Taiwanese students had a lower level of morphological understanding than American students at second grade, Taiwanese sixth graders were slightly but not significantly ahead of American sixth graders. The acquisition of Chinese derivational morphology seems to lag behind that of …
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Learning to Read Chinese: The Roles of Phonological Awareness and Morphological Awareness
… performance of good readers from poor readers. Morphological awareness had a greater influence on children's reading performance than did phonological awareness. The results of Study 2 show that the PA instruction group performed the best on the phonological awareness posttest of the four …
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Cognitive and Linguistic Factors of Reading Arabic: the Role of Morphological Awareness in Reading
… to a range of constructs including phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness, orthographic processing (OP), rapid automatized naming, working memory and vocabulary. There is a paucity of research on Arabic, although 420 million people around the world (Gordon, 2005) speak Arabic. As a …
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Multisyllabic Word Reading in Grades 4 and 5: Accuracy, Errors, and Associated Child-Level Skills
… of five variables of interest: phonological awareness, suprasegmental phonological awareness, morphological awareness, vocabulary, and naming speed. Regression analyses showed that the contribution of phonological awareness (at both the segmental and suprasegmental levels) was fully mediated …
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Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability
… on receptive vocabulary, print exposure (PE), morphological awareness (MA), and general spelling ability, in both English and French. English vocabulary, PE, and MA accounted for 35% of the variance in overall English spelling. French vocabulary and MA accounted for 28% of the variance in …
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Inflectional morphology in the literacy of deaf children
… to the deaf. In this thesis, different levels of morphological awareness necessary for literacy were tested. Deaf children demonstrated that they associated morphologically related words – the first level of awareness. This was evidenced in a short-term memory task in which words sharing …
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Morphological Competence in English: Comparing Advanced L2 and L3 English Learners
This thesis compares morphological competence in advanced Mandarin-speaking second-language (L2) learners (n=63) and Uyghur-speaking third-language (L3) learners (n=40) of English, focusing on derivational word parts knowledge, morphological awareness, and processing ability. Existing research on …
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Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students
… work discusses the importance of metalinguistic awareness in teaching vocabulary to adult English Language Learners at an intermediate- or advanced-level of English language proficiency with an emphasis on learning vocabulary through word families and increased morphological awareness. The main …
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When is a corner like corn? Morpho-orthographic segmenting skills in children who struggle with reading
Morphological awareness is the ability to consider and manipulate the smallest units of meaning in language. To measure it, a masked priming lexical decision task was used, where prime words varied, from morphologically related to the target (teacher-TEACH), to pseudo-suffixed relationships …
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Promoting autonomy for language learning powered by data-driven methods and learner-centred design
… strategies and promoting linguistic awareness for learners. (2) Card-it is a dynamic flashcard generator leveraging finite-state morphology to support the acquisition of Italian verb morphology. This application incorporates expert feedback and learner evaluations to refine its …
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The Development of Language and Reading Skills in Emergent Bilingual Children
… reading comprehension), language (vocabulary and morphological awareness (MA)), phonological awareness, and rapid automatized naming in English and Hebrew. Similar improvement from senior kindergarten to Grade 1 was noted for both groups across all measures, however the early group displayed …