Michael J. Kieffer|Gina Biancarosa|Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez
Roles of morphological awareness in the reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking language minority learners: Exploring partial mediation by vocabulary and reading fluency
University of Oregon|Columbia University|University of Illinois at Chicago
abstract study investigated direct indirect roles morphological awareness reading comprehension spanishspeaking language minority learners reading english multivariate path analysis used investigate unique contribution derivational morphological awareness reading comprehension well indirect contributions via three hypothesized mediators students sixth seventh eighth grade n 101 results indicated significant unique contribution morphological awareness controlling phonemic decoding listening comprehension reading vocabulary word reading fluency passage reading fluency results indicated significant indirect contributions morphological awareness via reading vocabulary passage fluency via word reading fluency findings suggest morphological awareness may play multiple important roles secondlanguage reading comprehension