Development of a Morphology Intervention to Enhance Literacy Outcomes for Adolescent English Learners

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: Developing Literacy in English Language Learning Settings

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of an academic vocabulary and morphology intervention focused on Latin roots for English Learner adolescents. We report results from a feasibility test in Year 2 of the intervention, which was conducted as part of a three-year development grant. The main goal of this feasibility test was to assess effectiveness of the intervention on a range of literacy outcomes related to lexical quality of academic words. Results show pre to post differences on the following literacy outcomes: knowledge of root meanings, multidimensional knowledge of academic words, orthographic processing of academic words and morphological problem-solving skills.

Authors

• Amy C. Crosson, The Pennsylvania State University

• Margaret G. McKeown, University of Pittsburgh

• Pui-Wa Lei, The Pennsylvania State University

• Weiyi Cheng, The Pennsylvania State University

• Kathleen J. Brown, University of Utah

• Kelly P. Robbins