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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Sarid, Miri; Shimron, Joseph – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Research suggests that morphological awareness facilitates word decoding, improves lexical knowledge, and helps reading comprehension (Carlisle, 2010; Nagy et al., 2014; Verhoeven & Perfetti, 2011). The present study examined the relationship among morphological awareness, word recognition and reading comprehension in 153 second- and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition
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Miller, Paul – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
This study investigates the importance of vowel diacritics for the reading of Hebrew in individuals with different levels of phonological control. A paradigm calling for written ordered-recall of 12 lists of 8 consecutively displayed Hebrew nouns was used as a test tool. Item presentation and between-item interval were computer-controlled. Half of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Reading Processes, Semitic Languages, Deafness
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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The study investigates adult Hebrew readers' perception of words containing the grapheme[Hebrew] in different orthographic and morphological contexts. In the first experiment, 38 third-year education students were asked to make lexical decisions regarding 24 pointed words (presented with vowel marks) in a sentential context in two conditions--with…
Descriptors: Vowels, Semitic Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)