The correlation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension is r = .536 in school-aged readers of English¶
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q4 i3 The meta-analytic correlation between MA and reading comprehension was r = .536 (95% CI [.513, .559]). → Zhang 2023
Evidence¶
Zhang 2023¶
Zhang, D., Ke, S. (E.), & Mo, Y. (2023). Morphology in Reading Comprehension Among School-Aged Readers of English: A Synthesis and Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 115(5), 683–699. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000797
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Stage 1 TSSEM pooled correlation analysis of the whole sample (k = 107, N = 21,818) estimated the zero-order correlation between MA and reading comprehension. The pooled estimate was "0.536 (95% confidence interval [CI] [.513, .559])", close to prior univariate meta-analytic estimates.
"The correlation of MA with reading comprehension was 0.536 (95% confidence interval [CI] [.513, .559]), which was very close to that in Ruan et al. (2018) for English MA and reading comprehension (r = .534)"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Morphological Awareness — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Reading and Language — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- Morphological awareness has a significant direct effect on reading comprehension controlling for word reading and vocabulary knowledge (β = .146) — related
- Morphological awareness has significant indirect effects on reading comprehension via word reading (β = .140) and vocabulary knowledge (β = .190) — related
- Word reading efficiency and sentence comprehension show distinct behavioral subcomponent profiles: word reading correlates with phonological subcomponents, comprehension with morphological awareness and orthography-semantic mapping — related
- Bilingual readers showed a smaller indirect effect of MA on reading comprehension via word reading than monolinguals — related
- Older readers showed a stronger indirect effect of MA on reading comprehension via vocabulary knowledge, with a converse pattern via word reading — related
- Morphological awareness is a significantly stronger correlate of adult reading comprehension than phonological awareness and RAN — related
- Six component reading skills show strong average relationships with reading comprehension in struggling adult readers (rs ≥ .50) — related
- No significant subgroup difference was found in the magnitude of the direct effect of MA on reading comprehension for any moderator (except lower elementary non-significance) — related
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The correlation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension is r = .536 in school-aged readers of English |
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The correlation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension is r = .536 in school-aged readers of English |
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2023 |
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2026-10-24 |
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