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An investigation of morphological awareness and processing in adults with low literacy

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Author	Tighe, Elizabeth L. Binder, Katherine S.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Morphological awareness, which is an understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes, has emerged as an important contributor to word reading and comprehension skills. The first aim of the current study was to investigate the contribution of morphological awareness independent of phonological awareness and decoding to the reading comprehension abilities of adults with low literacy. Results indicated that morphological awareness was a significant unique predictor of reading comprehension. A second aim of the study was to investigate the processing of morphologically complex words of adults with low literacy in both an oral reading passage and a single-word naming task. Adults’ accuracy and response times were measured on different types of morphologically complex words and compared with control words matched on frequency in both the passage and the naming tasks. Results revealed that adults were vulnerable to morphological complexity: they performed more accurately and faster on matched control words versus morphologically complex word types. The educational implications for Adult Basic Education programs are discussed.
Related Links	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405785/pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/86E0C0B0BF740C774246F02A333BC918/S0142716413000222a.pdf/div-class-title-an-investigation-of-morphological-awareness-and-processing-in-adults-with-low-literacy-div.pdf
Ending Page	273
Page Count	29
Starting Page	245
ISSN	01427164
e-ISSN	14691817
DOI	10.1017/s0142716413000222
Journal	Applied Psycholinguistics
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	36
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2015-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Psycholinguistics Special Education Morphological Awareness Morphologically Complex
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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