The aim of the present study is to examine the morphological knowledge of readers with developmental dyslexia compared to chronological age and reading-level matched controls. The study also analyzes the errors dyslexics make and their metamorphological awareness compared to controls. Participants included 31 seventh-grade dyslexic children and two matched control groups of normal readers: 34 s...

This study examined the processing of derivational morphology and its association with measures of morphological awareness and literacy outcomes in 30 Dutch speaking high-functioning dyslexics, and 30 controls, matched for age and reading comprehension. A masked priming experiment was conducted where the semantic overlap between morphologically related pairs was manipulated as part of a lexical...

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...

This study investigated the association between cross-language morphological awareness and reading comprehension among second language (English) adult learners who speak Sinhala as a first language. Measures of (sentence-level passage-level) in both languages were administered to appraise learners’ comprehension. The results regression analyses indicated that although was associated with senten...

Students' vocabulary knowledge is related to their morphological awareness, which plays an essential role in word comprehension and development. This case study aimed at describing undergraduate students’ awareness difficulties morpheme identification relationship. employed the MAT test two analytical tests. The Morpheme Identification Test used measure how well first-year college students can ...