The Importance of Morphological Knowledge in the Reading Comprehension Difficulties in a Highly Agglutinative Language: Evidence from Poor Comprehenders

Kargin T., Guldenoglu B., Gengec H., Toker M.

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, cilt.52, sa.2, ss.653-673, 2023 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 52 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10936-022-09916-1
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Communication & Mass Media Index, Communication Abstracts, EMBASE, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.653-673
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Reading, Reading comprehension, Morphology, Morpho-syntax, Morphological decoding, SIMPLE VIEW, VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE, WORD RECOGNITION, DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA, SYNTACTIC AWARENESS, CHILDREN, ACQUISITION, SKILLS, ENGLISH, SIZE
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study examined the importance of morphological knowledge in the reading comprehension difficulties of poor comprehenders reading in a highly agglutinative language, Turkish. Participants were 56 students recruited from the second and third grades. In the assessment process, we applied three experimental paradigms addressing the participants' morphological and morpho-syntactical knowledge at the lexical and the supralexical levels. Data were collected in individual sessions and analyzed by running a series of GLM ANOVAs and calculating the Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient. Findings suggest morphological knowledge is an important indicator of reading comprehension difficulties in Turkish, a highly agglutinative language. The acquisition of adequate reading comprehension seems to be modified by particularities of the morphological knowledge.