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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the joint and unique contributions of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge at five reading comprehension levels in adult basic education (ABE) students. We introduce the statistical technique of multiple quantile regression, which enabled us to assess the predictive utility of morphological…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary
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Fracasso, Lucille E.; Bangs, Kathryn; Binder, Katherine S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The Adult Basic Education (ABE) population consists of a wide range of abilities with needs that may be unique to this set of learners. The purpose of this study was to better understand the relative contributions of phonological decoding and morphological awareness to spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension across a sample of ABE students. In…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Intervention, Phonological Awareness, Morphology (Languages)
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Cheung, Him – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
Previous studies have shown that phonological awareness correlates with children's reading aloud and also adults' literacy experience. More recent research has further suggested that phonological awareness is associated with the processing of spoken language, which is a correlate of reading comprehension. In this paper, I argue that phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Speech, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language