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Morpho-phonemic analysis boosts word reading for adult struggling readers

Overview of attention for article published in Reading and Writing, September 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (74th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Title
Morpho-phonemic analysis boosts word reading for adult struggling readers
Published in
Reading and Writing, September 2017
DOI 10.1007/s11145-017-9774-9
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Susan H. Gray, Linnea C. Ehri, John L. Locke

Abstract

A randomized control trial compared the effects of two kinds of vocabulary instruction on component reading skills of adult struggling readers. Participants seeking alternative high school diplomas received 8 h of scripted tutoring to learn forty academic vocabulary words embedded within a civics curriculum. They were matched for language background and reading levels, then randomly assigned to either morpho-phonemic analysis teaching word origins, morpheme and syllable structures, or traditional whole word study teaching multiple sentence contexts, meaningful connections, and spellings. Both groups made comparable gains in learning the target words, but the morpho-phonemic group showed greater gains in reading unfamiliar words on standardized tests of word reading, including word attack and word recognition. Findings support theories of word learning and literacy that promote explicit instruction in word analysis to increase poor readers' linguistic awareness by revealing connections between morphological, phonological, and orthographic structures within words.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 92 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 15%
Student > Master 10 11%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 34 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 16%
Linguistics 13 14%
Social Sciences 9 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 3 3%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 42 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 May 2024.
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#5,337,576
of 25,834,578 outputs
Outputs from Reading and Writing
#150
of 843 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,836
of 328,765 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reading and Writing
#6
of 20 outputs
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