The impact of morphological density on reading comprehension in Arabic: A comparison between typically developing and children with reading disabilities

IF 1.9 3区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SPECIAL
Dyslexia Pub Date : 2024-01-18 DOI:10.1002/dys.1761
Ibrahim A. Asadi, Abeer Asli-Badarneh, Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum
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This study examined the influence of morphological density on reading comprehension in Arabic and whether this influence differs between typical and children with reading disabilities. Morphological density in Arabic is a text feature that refers to using bound morphemes, creating dense words with more morphemes. The participants were 182 fifth-graders, both typical and children with reading disabilities. Children were assessed in reading comprehension by reading texts with low- or high-morphological density. Findings revealed that overall morphological density impacted reading comprehension performance. That is, scores were found to be higher while reading low-density text than high-density text. Moreover, an interaction of morphological density condition by reading proficiency showed no density text effect among typical developing readers. However, a difference was obtained in the children with reading disabilities whereas low-morphological density text score was higher than the score of high-morphological density text. The study highlights the importance of morphological awareness in reading comprehension in Arabic, extending that morphological density plays an important role in this process. The results are discussed in light of the lexical quality hypothesis and simple view of reading model. The findings imply the need of explicit morphological instruction for dense morphological forms.

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形态密度对阿拉伯语阅读理解的影响:典型发育儿童与阅读障碍儿童的比较。
本研究探讨了形态密度对阿拉伯语阅读理解的影响,以及这种影响在典型儿童和阅读障碍儿童之间是否存在差异。阿拉伯语中的词形密度是指使用绑定词素,用更多词素创造密集词的一种文本特征。研究对象是 182 名五年级学生,包括典型儿童和阅读障碍儿童。通过阅读形态密度低或高的文本,对儿童的阅读理解能力进行了评估。研究结果表明,整体形态密度会影响阅读理解的成绩。也就是说,阅读低密度文本的得分要高于高密度文本。此外,形态密度条件与阅读能力的交互作用表明,密度文本对典型发展型读者没有影响。然而,在阅读障碍儿童中却出现了差异,低形态密度文本的得分高于高形态密度文本。这项研究强调了形态意识在阿拉伯语阅读理解中的重要性,并延伸出形态密度在这一过程中的重要作用。研究结果根据词汇质量假设和简单阅读模式观点进行了讨论。研究结果表明,有必要对密集形态进行明确的形态教学。
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Dyslexia
Dyslexia Multiple-
CiteScore
3.90
自引率
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27
期刊介绍: DYSLEXIA provides reviews and reports of research, assessment and intervention practice. In many fields of enquiry theoretical advances often occur in response to practical needs; and a central aim of the journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of dyslexia, so that each can learn from the other. Interesting developments, both theoretical and practical, are being reported in many different countries: DYSLEXIA is a forum in which a knowledge of these developments can be shared by readers in all parts of the world. The scope of the journal includes relevant aspects of Cognitive, Educational, Developmental and Clinical Psychology Child and Adult Special Education and Remedial Education Therapy and Counselling Neuroscience, Psychiatry and General Medicine The scope of the journal includes relevant aspects of: - Cognitive, Educational, Developmental and Clinical Psychology - Child and Adult Special Education and Remedial Education - Therapy and Counselling - Neuroscience, Psychiatry and General Medicine
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