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What morphological awareness of the contribution of children in word reading accuracy and reading comprehension in Portuguese?

Abstract

This study investigates Justi and Roazzi's (2012) affirmation that morphological awareness does not contribute independently to reading when cognitive and phonological awareness controls are applied. One hundred and fourteen children from 2nd and 4th grade public schools participated in the studies. Children were evaluated on phonological awareness, cognitive abilities and morphological awareness. The results showed that after controlling for age, cognitive abilities and phonological awareness, derivational morphology still contributed to word reading. There was not significant result with the contributions of morphological awareness to reading comprehension. These results indicate the morphological awareness is relevant to reading acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese.

Keywords:
morphological awareness; reading; reading comprehension; literacy

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