Role of Phonological and Morphological Awareness in Korean Sixth-Grade Students’ English Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-154
Author(s):  
EunJoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Sixth Grade Students

scholarly journals The Contribution of Understanding Academic Vocabulary to Answering Comprehension Questions

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Cunningham ◽  
David W. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Comprehension Question ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Independent Factor ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Vocabulary Subtest

This study was designed to investigate whether the vocabulary of written comprehension questions is an independent factor in determining students' reading comprehension performance. The factors controlled were reader characteristics, text characteristics, and question-text-answer relationships. Sets of matched comprehension questions differing only in type of vocabulary (academic vs. everyday) were answered by 106 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students. Subjects' scores on the ITBS meaning vocabulary subtest and an informal measure of academic vocabulary knowledge were also collected. Differences between means indicated that academic vocabulary in comprehension questions significantly decreased question-answering performance. To shed additional light on this decrease, a series of simple, multiple, and semipartial correlations between vocabulary measures and comprehension question scores were computed. These correlations consistently supported the interpretation that differences in terminology between the matched sets of questions accounted for the difference in performance on the questions. Possible directions for further research and implications for practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Educación patrimonial y fotografía estereoscópica: intervención didáctica

2019 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Jordi Ferrer-Peris ◽  
Juan Carlos Colomer-Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Research Document

The insertion of digital technology for the work of tangible and intangible heritage can become a creative tool that reinforces the role of the teacher as an educator of local heritage (in line with what is suggested in the Plan Nacional de Educación y Patrimonio (PNEyP)). In addition, this type of resources allow the development of tools that improve the interpretation of the patrimonial environments and bring them closer to the students.  Our proposal is an original didactic intervention made with sixth grade students of Primary Education is exposed in the environment of Castell de Marinyén (Benifairó de la Valldigna, Valencia) through the use of stereoscopic or spherical photography and the hypothesis of reconstruction. This activity combines research on the immediate environment, the digital technologies and the use of image as a research document, which has made it possible to propose the technological means in patrimonial education by means of updated, simple and accessible resources that allow the realization of concrete investigations and the work of contents of different areas of knowledge. In conclusion, the defects that the patrimonial education has had in its insertion in the educational system, extending its treatment in the classroom, as well as its disposition within the school curriculum.

On the nature of morphological awareness in Japanese–English bilingual children: A cross-linguistic perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUKO HAYASHI ◽  
VICTORIA A. MURPHY
Keyword(s):  
English Learners ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Morphological Development ◽  
Morphological Knowledge ◽  
Japanese Learners ◽  
Reciprocal Transfer ◽  
Japanese English

While morphological awareness has received much attention to date, little is understood about how morphological awareness develops within bilingual children learning typologically different languages. Therefore, we investigated children's knowledge of inflections and derivations in Japanese and English, and also asked whether morphological awareness in one language predicted morphological awareness in the other. To that end, 24 Japanese learners of L2 English (ESL) and 21 English learners of Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) were recruited and participated in a range of tasks assessing both vocabulary and morphological knowledge. Cross-linguistic contributions of morphological awareness were identified in both directions (Japanese ↔ English), after controlling for age, IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. This bidirectional transfer was, however, identified only in the ESL group. The group-specific and reciprocal transfer observed is discussed in terms of morphological complexities and relative competence in each language. The potential role of different types of L2 instruction in morphological development is also discussed.

The Critical Role of Elementary School Mathematics in Equalizing Opportunity

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
Lucy W. Sells
Keyword(s):  
Grade Level ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Proficiency Tests ◽  
Remedial Courses ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Catch Up

In many school districts across the country, students' assignment to mathematics courses in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades is based on scores on proficiency tests given in the sixth grade. Students who are seriously below grade level on these tests get assigned to remedial courses so that they have the opportunity to catch up. Students who do not master the basic skills needed to catch up will never make it through the algebra and geometry courses required for admission to many colleges, and increasingly required for advancement in technical fields that do not require a college degree. Thus, failure to achieve mastery of arithmetic skills at grade level presents a serious barrier to job opportunities for students.

Multi-Faceted Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in English as a Second Language Learners: A Multivariate Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Haomin ◽  
Zhuang Bilü
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Vocabulary Depth

AbstractThis study investigates the role of morphological awareness in ESL vocabulary acquisition. Participants were 198 Chinese college students enrolled in a joint program which required them to study in China for the first two years and then study in the U.K. to complete their degrees. They completed a total of four paper-and-pencil tests: morpheme discrimination, morpheme recognition, vocabulary size test (VST) and word associates test (WAT) tests. We drew upon path analysis to explore the interconnected relationships among multiple explanatory variables (facets of morphological awareness) and outcome variables (facets of vocabulary knowledge). The results demonstrated that English derivational awareness was strongly predictive of both ESL vocabulary breadth and ESL vocabulary depth, and that preexisting ESL vocabulary breadth could enhance the relation between derivational awareness and ESL vocabulary depth. To summarize, these results indicate that an improved English derivational awareness not only helps to expand ESL vocabulary size but can also consolidate learners’ deep understanding of word properties, which will in turn assist them to establish connections with other associative words and phrases.

scholarly journals Morphological Awareness in L2 Chinese Reading Comprehension: Testing of Mediating Routes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haomin Zhang ◽  
Xing Zhang ◽  
Mengjie Li ◽  
Yiming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Morphological Awareness ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Morphological Knowledge ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
L2 Chinese ◽  
Path Models ◽  
Inference Task

This study aims to examine the contribution of morphological awareness to second language (L2) Chinese reading comprehension through potential mediating factors. Adult L2 Chinese learners (n = 447) participated in the study and completed two morphological awareness tasks (segmentation and discrimination), two vocabulary knowledge tasks (character knowledge and word-meaning knowledge), one lexical inference task, and one reading comprehension task. By testing alternative path models, this study identified the preferred model assuming the covariates of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge. Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge jointly contributed to L2 Chinese reading comprehension through lexical inference. The written modality of morphological awareness induced the activation of both morphological and orthographic information in print. The result suggests that morphological awareness (in the form of grapho-morphological knowledge) and vocabulary knowledge seem to be two parallel components under the same construct predicting Chinese reading comprehension. More importantly, this study underscores the intermediary effect of lexical inference in associating morphological awareness and reading comprehension in L2 Chinese learners.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF SUBTITLED ANIMATED CARTOON VIDEOS ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION (A Quasi Experimental Study at The Sixth Grade Students of SDIT Al- Hasanah Kota Bengkulu)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Gustian Pelani
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Animated Cartoon ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year

Thisstudyaims toinvestigatewhetheror nottheuseofsubtitledanimated cartoonvideosaffectstudents’ reading comprehension and to findoutinwhat performanceof reading comprehension aspectstheexperimentaland controlclassdiffer. ThepopulationincludedallthesixthgradestudentsofSDITAlHasanahKotaBengkulu in  academic  year  2015/2016,  which  consisted  of  77  students.  The  sampleswere  52 studentsthatwere taken fromtwo classes.Theexperimentalclass receiveda treatmentby usinganimatedcartoonvideoswithbimodalsubtitles, while thecontrolclasswas taught byusinganimatedcartoonvideoswithoutsubtitles.A pre-testwasgiven tobothclasses beforetreatment.Thedata wereanalyzedbyusingSPSS16for t-testformula.Theresults show that, firstly, therewasa statistically significantdifferencebetween thegroups in readingcomprehension scores.Therefore, itwasconcluded thattheuse ofsubtitled animated cartoon videoscould improvestudents’ reading comprehension. Secondly, for reading  comprehension  aspects,  the  experimental  class  and  the  control  class  were different inthe literalperformanceaspect.However,intheinferenceperformance,it showed  no  significant  difference.  Based  on  the  results,  it  wasrecommended  to  use subtitled animatedcartoonvideosastheteaching aidinteachingreadingcomprehension

scholarly journals La influencia de niveles básicos de procesamiento en la comprensión lectora de los alumnos sordos: revisión actual / The Influence of Processing Basic Levels in Reading Comprehension of Deaf Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Carrero Barril
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Phonological Coding ◽  
Current Review ◽  
Reading Efficiency ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Global Meaning

ABSTRACT:In the present paper, it is pretended to explain the role of basic levels in the processing of reading into the global comprehension when deaf students cope with writing texts. Deaf students have severe deficits in general language knowledge which involves deficits in syntactic and semantic abilities. And so they have several difficulties in reading and writing. Otherwise, deaf students have specific limitations in the processing of writing texts (Marschark, 2008). In the current review, the goal is to approach the specific difficulties in reading comprehension in the basis of processing: phonological awareness, lexical access and vocabulary knowledge. First, we will establish how phonological coding and reading efficiency are related. In the second hand, we asked if the limited lexical access influence final comprehension. Finally, it is noted that deaf students have a restricted vocabulary that affect their own ability to extract the global meaning of reading.RESUMEN:En el presente estudio procederemos a revisar el papel que juegan los niveles inferiores de procesamiento lector en la comprensión cuando los alumnos sordos se enfrentan a los textos escritos. Los alumnos sordos presentan déficits en la competencia lingüística general, lo que se traduce en déficit en las capacidades sintácticas y semánticas a nivel oral, lo que condiciona un abordaje del lenguaje escrito con dificultades de base. (Paul, 2009). Por otro lado, los alumnos sordos presentan déficits específicos en el procesamiento del lenguaje escrito (Marschark, 2008). En este estudio nos centraremos en los niveles que preceden a los procesos específicos de comprensión lectora. Revisaremos en profundidad tres de ellos: la decodificación fonológica, el acceso al léxico y el conocimiento del vocabulario. En nuestra revisión actual, nos centraremos en primer lugar en la relación entre los problemas de conciencia fonológica y los resultados en eficiencia lectora. Más adelante veremos las dificultades de los niños con déficit auditivo para el acceso a la palabra escrita y sus consecuencias en el acceso al significado del texto. Y finalmente, revisaremos si el volumen de vocabulario que el alumno sordo posee incide en el resultado final de la lectura. Contacto principal: [email protected]

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