Lyster-Lervag

Authors: Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas ; Arne Olav Lervåg, Charles Hulme.

Article: Preschool morphological training produces long-term improvements in reading comprehension.

Publication: Reading and Writing Volume 29, Issue 6, pp 1269-1288 2016 | DOI: 10.1007/s11145-016-9636-x

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Abstract

We evaluated the effect of morphological awareness training delivered in preschool (8 months before school entry) on reading ability at the end of grade 1 and 5 years later (in Grade 6). In preschool, one group of children received morphological awareness training, while a second group received phonological awareness training. A control group followed the ordinary preschool curriculum. The comparison between each training condition and the control condition is quasi experimental, whereas the comparison between the morphological and phonological treatments is randomized at group level. In Grade 1 children in the morphological awareness training group had significantly higher scores than children in the control group on both word reading and text reading measures, but no differences were found between the experimental groups. In Grade 6 children in the morphological awareness training group had significantly higher scores compared with the control group on a latent measure of reading comprehension, whereas the children in the phonological awareness training group did not differ from the controls; although the experimental groups did not differ significantly from each other. The results suggest that early training in morphological awareness can have long-term effects on children’s literacy skills.

Tagged as: morphological awareness training, morphological processing, and phonemic awareness

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