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The role of morphological awareness in word reading skills in Japanese : A within-language cross-orthographic perspective
Muroya, Naoko Inoue, Tomohiro Hosokawa, Miyuki Georgiou, George K. Maekawa, Hisao Parrila, Rauno
Muroya, Naoko
Inoue, Tomohiro
Hosokawa, Miyuki
Georgiou, George K.
Maekawa, Hisao
Parrila, Rauno
Abstract
We examined the relationship between morphological awareness and word reading skills in syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Participants were 127 Grade 1 Japanese-speaking children who were followed until Grade 2. The results showed that Grade 1 morphological awareness was uniquely and comparably associated with word reading skills in both Hiragana and Kanji in Grade 1 after controlling for nonverbal and verbal cognitive abilities, phonological awareness, and rapid automatized naming. The effect of Grade 1 morphological awareness on Grade 2 Kanji word recognition was slightly stronger (∆R2 = .10) than the effect on Grade 2 Hiragana reading fluency (∆R2 = .03). The findings suggest that morphological awareness plays an important role in early word reading skills across the two scripts, and with reading skill development it may become more important for mastering morphographic Kanji characters.
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Date
2017
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Journal article
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Scientific Studies of Reading
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21
Issue
6
Page Range
449-462
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Faculty of Education and Arts
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