Authors
Min Wang, In Yeong Ko, Jaeho Choi
Publication date
2009/4/1
Journal
Contemporary Educational Psychology
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
132-142
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
This study examined the importance of morphological awareness in Korean–English biliteracy acquisition. English is an opaque orthographic system, in which letters and sounds have indirect correspondences. Korean Hangul, on the other hand, is a transparent orthographic system where there are direct letter-sound correspondences. Sixty-five children from Grades 2 to 4 were tested on a set of comparable Korean and English tasks tapping into oral vocabulary, phonemic awareness, morphological awareness, real word reading, and passage reading comprehension. Results showed that morphological awareness explained a significant amount of variance in word reading and reading comprehension within both Korean Hangul and English, suggesting that morphological awareness is important not only in an opaque orthography but also in a transparent orthography. Furthermore, morphological awareness in …
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M Wang, IY Ko, J Choi - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2009