Morphological awareness and early and advanced word recognition and spelling in Dutch |
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| Authors: | Judith E Rispens Catherine McBride-Chang Pieter Reitsma |
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| Institution: | (1) PI Research, Rijksstraatweg 145, Duivendrecht, 1115 AP, Netherlands;(2) Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong;(3) Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the relations of three aspects of morphological awareness to word recognition and spelling skills
of Dutch speaking children. Tasks of inflectional and derivational morphology and lexical compounding, as well as measures
of phonological awareness, vocabulary and mathematics were administered to 104 first graders (mean age 6 years, 11 months)
and 112 sixth graders (mean age 12 years, 1 month). For the first grade children, awareness of noun morphology uniquely contributed
to word reading, and none of the morphological tasks were uniquely associated with spelling. In grade 6, derivational morphology
contributed both to reading and spelling achievement, whereas awareness of verb inflection uniquely explained spelling only.
Lexical compounding did not uniquely contribute to literacy skills in either grade. These findings suggest that awareness
of both inflectional and derivational morphology may be independently useful for learning to read and spell Dutch. |
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| Keywords: | Morphological awareness Reading acquisition Spelling acquisition Word recognition |
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