Background The role of morphological awareness for literacy development is non-controversial, but it likely to depend on the characteristics a specific orthography. Previous studies analysing are mainly based English samples; thus, unclear how generalisable these results are. In current study, we evaluated predictive pattern reading and spelling in German, which characterised by high consistenc...

PURPOSE This prologue introduces the clinical forum, briefly discusses the importance of morphology in literacy, and informs the reader of the scope of the included articles. METHOD The concept of morphology is reviewed, contributing authors are introduced, and a brief summary of each of the 5 forum articles is provided. CONCLUSION The studies in this forum investigated different morphologi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a curriculum supplement designed to enhance awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE) in African American English- (AAE-) speaking prekindergarten children. METHOD Children in 2 Head Start classrooms participated in the study. The experimental classroom received the Talking and Learning for Kindergarten program (Edwards, R...

We describe preliminary data from two studies aimed at investigating the psychometric properties and validity of newly developed measures of morphological knowledge and skills in Russian, namely, the Word Structure subtest, and the Test of Morphological Awareness, in two samples of young Russian-speaking children. Overall, both instruments demonstrated good psychometric properties when analyzed...

The aim of this study is to examine the developmental relationship between compounding awareness and vocabulary knowledge from grades 1 to 2 in Chinese children. In this study, 149 Chinese children were tested on compounding awareness and vocabulary knowledge from Time 1 to Time 4, with non-verbal IQ, working memory, phonological awareness, orthographical awareness, and rapid automatized naming...