TY - JOUR
T1 - Roles of morphological awareness in the reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking language minority learners
T2 - Exploring partial mediation by vocabulary and reading fluency
AU - Kieffer, Michael J.
AU - Biancarosa, Gina
AU - Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions via three hypothesized mediators for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade (N = 101). Results indicated a significant unique contribution of morphological awareness, controlling for phonemic decoding, listening comprehension, reading vocabulary, word reading fluency, and passage reading fluency. Results further indicated significant indirect contributions of morphological awareness via reading vocabulary and passage fluency, but not via word reading fluency. Findings suggest that morphological awareness may play multiple important roles in second-language reading comprehension.
AB - This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions via three hypothesized mediators for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade (N = 101). Results indicated a significant unique contribution of morphological awareness, controlling for phonemic decoding, listening comprehension, reading vocabulary, word reading fluency, and passage reading fluency. Results further indicated significant indirect contributions of morphological awareness via reading vocabulary and passage fluency, but not via word reading fluency. Findings suggest that morphological awareness may play multiple important roles in second-language reading comprehension.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0142716411000920
DO - 10.1017/S0142716411000920
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869879844
SN - 0142-7164
VL - 34
SP - 697
EP - 725
JO - Applied Psycholinguistics
JF - Applied Psycholinguistics
IS - 4
ER -