{"title":"Morphological awareness intervention in mainland Chinese school-age children with developmental dyslexia.","authors":"Xiuping Ming, Yaping Wang, Shudong Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11881-025-00352-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on interventions to improve morphological awareness in children with developmental dyslexia remains sparse. This study examines whether morphological awareness intervention enhances the morphological awareness skills of Chinese children with developmental dyslexia. Thirty elementary school children with developmental dyslexia (9-10 years old) from Beijing, China, participated in this study. Fifteen children were randomly assigned to an experimental group receiving morphological awareness intervention, while another fifteen were assigned to a control group. The intervention comprised ten sessions, each lasting 40 minutes. Children's morphological awareness, including homophone awareness, compounding awareness, radical awareness, and homograph awareness, was assessed before and after the delivery of the intervention. Results showed that the experimental group demonstrated significantly improved morphological awareness, particularly in homophone awareness and compounding awareness, compared to the control group. However, no significant improvements were observed in radical awareness and homograph awareness. The findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting that morphological awareness develops through distinct facets, each exhibiting differing levels of responsiveness to targeted interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47273,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Dyslexia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Dyslexia","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-025-00352-z","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SPECIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Research on interventions to improve morphological awareness in children with developmental dyslexia remains sparse. This study examines whether morphological awareness intervention enhances the morphological awareness skills of Chinese children with developmental dyslexia. Thirty elementary school children with developmental dyslexia (9-10 years old) from Beijing, China, participated in this study. Fifteen children were randomly assigned to an experimental group receiving morphological awareness intervention, while another fifteen were assigned to a control group. The intervention comprised ten sessions, each lasting 40 minutes. Children's morphological awareness, including homophone awareness, compounding awareness, radical awareness, and homograph awareness, was assessed before and after the delivery of the intervention. Results showed that the experimental group demonstrated significantly improved morphological awareness, particularly in homophone awareness and compounding awareness, compared to the control group. However, no significant improvements were observed in radical awareness and homograph awareness. The findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting that morphological awareness develops through distinct facets, each exhibiting differing levels of responsiveness to targeted interventions.
期刊介绍:
Annals of Dyslexia is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the scientific study of dyslexia, its comorbid conditions; and theory-based practices on remediation, and intervention of dyslexia and related areas of written language disorders including spelling, composing and mathematics. Primary consideration for publication is given to original empirical studies, significant review, and well-documented reports of evidence-based effective practices. Only original papers are considered for publication.