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ERIC Number: EJ1137092
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-May
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-0423
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Unexpected Poor Comprehenders: An Investigation of Multiple Aspects of Morphological Awareness
MacKay, Elizabeth Jean; Levesque, Kyle; Deacon, S. Hélène
Journal of Research in Reading, v40 n2 p125-138 May 2017
Poor comprehenders have age-appropriate word reading skills but struggle with understanding what they read. The purpose of this study was to investigate how poor comprehenders perform on multiple aspects of morphological awareness, a skill implicated in reading comprehension. In keeping with current research and theory, we look at three aspects of morphological awareness: morphological structure awareness, morphological analysis and morphological decoding. Using a regression-based approach, we identified 64 poor and average comprehenders out of a large sample of children in grade 3. Our results show that poor comprehenders and average comprehenders performed remarkably similar on morphological structure awareness, analysis, and decoding. Poor comprehenders performed more poorly than average comprehenders only on word analogy, a specific measure of morphological awareness. These results identify an area with which poor comprehenders are likely to struggle, while simultaneously providing evidence for areas of relative strength within this population.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 3; Primary Education; Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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