Morphological awareness in L1 and L2 reading skills
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0051/000466Keywords:
morphological awareness, reading skills, Specific Reading Disorder, Greek (L1), French (L2)Abstract
The present study investigated the effect of morphological awareness on three measures of reading, namely decoding, fluency and comprehension, in Greek as a first language (L1) and in French as a foreign language (L2). Morphological awareness was assessed via two tasks, a verb inflection task and a word production task. The results of this study indicated that the student’s performance in the two morphological tasks was significantly associated with their performance in the reading tasks. Our results support our hypothesis that morphological awareness can be a significant predictor of the high or low performances in decoding, reading fluency and reading comprehension in both L1 and L2 and it plays a critical role in reading efficiency.
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