Cross-Linguistic Relations of Morphological Awareness to Language and Reading Skills for Korean Grade 7 Students

• In Event: Understanding the Reading Development of Bilingual Students

Abstract

In this study, we explored the cross-linguistic association of morphological awareness, vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension between Korean (L1) and English (L2) for 121 Korean Grade 7 students. Factor analyses in morphological awareness illustrated morphological awareness fits the best as latent variables distinguished by languages – Korean and English. Furthermore, structural equation modeling analysis found there was a cross-linguistic association between morphological awareness, word reading, and reading comprehension between Korean and English. In addition, morphological awareness predicted reading comprehension within each language, and Korean morphological awareness predicted English reading comprehension via English morphological awareness and Korean reading comprehension. Word reading was the mediator of the relation of morphological awareness to reading comprehension in Korean but not in English.

Authors

• Joong won Lee, Texas State University
  Presenting Author

• Young-Suk Kim, University of California - Irvine
  Non-Presenting Author