Assessing direct contributions of morphological awareness and prosodic sensitivity to children’s word reading and reading comprehension

Deacon, S.H. and Holliman, A.J. and Dobson, G.J. and Harrison, Emily (2018) Assessing direct contributions of morphological awareness and prosodic sensitivity to children’s word reading and reading comprehension. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22. pp. 527-534. ISSN 1088-8438

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Abstract

We examined the independent contributions of prosodic sensitivity and morphological awareness to word reading, text reading accuracy, and reading comprehension. We did so in a longitudinal study of English-speaking children (N = 70). At 5 to 7 years of age, children completed the metalinguistic measures along with control measures of phonological awareness and vocabulary. Children completed the reading measures two years later. Morphological awareness, but not prosodic sensitivity made a significant independent contribution to word reading, text reading accuracy and reading comprehension. The effects of morphological awareness on reading comprehension remained after controls for word reading. These results suggest that morphological awareness needs to be considered seriously in models of reading development and that prosodic sensitivity might have primarily indirect relations to reading outcomes.
Keywords: Morphological Awareness; Prosody; Word Reading; Reading Comprehension.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2018.1483376
Dates:
DateEvent
28 May 2018Accepted
26 June 2018Published Online
Subjects: CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific)
Divisions: Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Psychology
Depositing User: Emily Harrison
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2018 14:17
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2022 15:42
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5975

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