Concurrent and Longitudinal Effects of Morphological Awareness on Reading Comprehension Among Chinese-Speaking Children

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Abstract

This study explored the concurrent and longitudinal effects of morphological awareness on the development of reading comprehension among Chinese-speaking children (N = 123, meanage = 8.1 at Time 2). Drawing upon multivariate analyses, the study found that morphological awareness and lexical inferencing ability were intertwined together to predict Chinese children's development of reading comprehension. More importantly, the result revealed that Chinese morphological awareness contributed to reading comprehension across time via the mediation of lexical inferencing ability. The study suggests that Chinese children's morphological sensitivity has a significant impact on lexical inferencing ability, which, in turn, contributes to reading comprehension concomitantly and longitudinally.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)867-884
Number of pages18
JournalReading Psychology
Volume37
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

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