In the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in morphological awareness, which refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate morphemes and word formation rules in a language. This review provides a critical synthesis of empirical studies on this topic from a broad cross-linguistic perspective. Research with children speaking several…

The focus of this review is on children's verbalized knowledge about various aspects of reading (gained primarily from interviews) rather than the regulation of that knowledge, which tends to be the other well-represented division in metacognitive research. (Author/CT)