Morphological awareness and reading achievement in university students
Journal article
Metsala, Jamie L., Parrila, Rauno, Conrad, Nicole J. and Deacon, S. Hélène. (2019). Morphological awareness and reading achievement in university students. Applied Psycholinguistics. 40(3), pp. 743-763. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716418000826
Authors | Metsala, Jamie L., Parrila, Rauno, Conrad, Nicole J. and Deacon, S. Hélène |
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Abstract | We examined morphological awareness and reading achievement in university students in two ways. First, students with and without a self-reported history of reading difficulties were compared on word reading and text reading achievement, and on the reading-related skills of morphological awareness, orthographic processing, and phonological processing. Second, the unique contribution of morphological awareness to reading achievement was examined for a larger sample of first-year university students. Students with a self-reported history of reading difficulties (n = 54) showed moderate to large gaps in each area of reading achievement, and timed reading comprehension appeared more severely impaired than word-reading efficiency. These students had a deficit in morphological awareness that persisted even when (a) phonological awareness and orthographic processing skills, or (b) word-reading accuracy were statistically controlled. In the larger first-year sample (N = 211), morphological awareness contributed to variance in word reading beyond that accounted for by phonological awareness and orthographic processing. Furthermore, of the reading-related skills, only morphological awareness made a unique contribution to reading comprehension beyond variance accounted for by word reading. Taken together, these results demonstrate that morphological awareness makes unique contributions to university students’ reading achievement and is an additional difficulty for students with a self-reported history of reading difficulties. |
Keywords | morphological awareness; reading achievement; reading disabilities; university students |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Applied Psycholinguistics |
Journal citation | 40 (3), pp. 743-763 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 0142-7164 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716418000826 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85064899810 |
Page range | 743-763 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 Apr 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 17 Nov 2018 |
Deposited | 02 Aug 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z6z1/morphological-awareness-and-reading-achievement-in-university-students
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