morphological awareness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmorphologicalandawareness
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morphological
adjective
uk/ˌmɔː.fəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌmɔːr.fəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
biologyspecialized
relating to the scientific study of the structure and form of animals ...
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awareness
noun[U]
uk/əˈweə.nəs/us/əˈwer.nəs/
knowledge that something exists, or understanding of a situation or subject at the present time based on information ...
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(Definition ofmorphologicalandawarenessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus,morphologicalawarenesstended to progress in a clear developmental pattern in relation to spelling of morphemes indicating past tense.
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However, research onmorphologicalawarenessis relatively rare.
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Results underscore the potential importance of different facets ofmorphologicalawareness, as distinct from phonological processing skills, for understanding variability in early vocabulary acquisition.
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In contrast, word morphology seldom provides new information the second time around, unless students'morphologicalawarenessradically changes.
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There is support for the independence of the relationship betweenmorphologicalawarenessand single word reading.
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In addition, we have demonstrated that vocabulary knowledge is also an important predictor ofmorphologicalawareness.
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Both are adaptable across languages and may be distinct features ofmorphologicalawarenessin relation to vocabulary acquisition.
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In the autoregressor analyses,morphologicalawarenessmade a greater contribution to reading comprehension than to single word reading.
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This contribution was comparable to that of phonological awareness and remained 3 years aftermorphologicalawarenesswas assessed.
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However, the explicit association ofmorphologicalawarenessto vocabulary acquisition has only rarely been investigated.
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This aspect ofmorphologicalawarenessmight help young language learners to distinguish among meanings of syllables with identical sounds, facilitating language analysis and vocabulary growth.
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In contrast,morphologicalawarenessrarely contributed significantly to single word reading.
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We then examined separately each of the two tasks ofmorphologicalawarenessfor explaining unique variance in vocabulary knowledge in these equations.
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The purpose of this paper is to consider theoretical and practical aspects of measurement ofmorphologicalawarenessfor explaining children's vocabulary knowledge.
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While both the phonological andmorphologicalawarenessmeasures had good reliability, a further consideration lies in task choice.
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The finding of a role ofmorphologicalawarenessin pseudoword reading may seem surprising.
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Our working definition ofmorphologicalawarenessis awareness of and access to the meaning and structure of morphemes in relation to words.
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The other aspect ofmorphologicalawarenesswe measured, morphological structure awareness, requires children to combine morphemes in new ways.
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Morphologicalawarenessand vocabulary knowledge are often discussed in the specific context of literacy learning as well.
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