Because we found morphological awareness to be an important contributor to reading comprehension, we wanted to investigate different characteristics of printed morphologically complex words to which adults may be sensitive.
In the second block, we included morphological awareness, to see if this addition significantly altered R. The overall regression was significant, F (2, 49) = 56.97, p <.001.
In addition, in order to fill up the gap of the review conducted by Melby-Lervag and Lervag in 2011 in which they examined cross-linguistic transfer of phonological awareness, oral language, and decoding, we also included morphological awareness in our review to investigate the relationship between Chinese and English in a more thorough and comprehensive perspective.
We found that morphological awareness accounted for additional variance beyond phonological awareness.
We expected that morphological awareness, phonological awareness, and decoding would be significant predictors of reading abilities for adults with low literacy skills.
Although there have been no studies with ABE students looking at morphological awareness as a predictor of reading comprehension, we hypothesized that similar to studies of children, morphological, phonological, and decoding skills as a set would predict adults' reading comprehension.
We wanted to assess if morphological awareness was also a unique contributor to reading comprehension for adults with low literacy.
First, we investigated the contribution of morphological awareness independent of phonological awareness and decoding to reading comprehension in adults enrolled in ABE programs.
First, we wanted to assess the contribution of morphological awareness, phonological awareness, and decoding to reading comprehension.
Most studies of morphological awareness have focused exclusively on inflected morphology in younger children or exclusively on derivational morphology in older children; however, in order to understand morphological awareness as a broader construct, it is important to incorporate both inflected and derived morphology within a single study.
