Effects of Instruction in Morphological Awareness on Literacy Achievement: An Integrative Review

Effects of Instruction in Morphological Awareness on Literacy Achievement: An Integrative Review

ACHIEVEMENT: An Integrative Review

The purpose of this review is to document the directions and recent progress in our understanding of the motivational dynamics of school achievement. Based on the accumulating research it is concluded that the quality of student learning as well as the will to continue learning depends closely on an interaction between the kinds of social and academic goals students bring to the classroom, the ...

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...

A meta-analysis of morphological interventions: effects on literacy achievement of children with literacy difficulties.

This study synthesizes 79 standardized mean-change differences between control and treatment groups from 17 independent studies, investigating the effect of morphological interventions on literacy outcomes for students with literacy difficulties. Average total sample size ranged from 15 to 261 from a wide range of grade levels. Overall, morphological instruction showed a significant improvement...

Morphological instruction and literacy Morphological Instruction and Literacy: Binding Phonological, Orthographic, and Semantic Features of Words

There are a number of reasons why knowledge of morphology should be related to literacy outcomes: (a) English is fundamentally morphophonemic in nature, (b) various theories give morphology a role in word reading, (c) there is evidence that adults process morphological information automatically when they read words, even if they are not aware of it, and (d) there is considerable evidence that k...