Is Morphological Awareness a Relevant Predictor of Reading Fluency and Comprehension? New Evidence From Italian Monolingual and Arabic-Italian Bilingual Children

In this study, we examined the contribution of morphological awareness to reading competence in a group of Italian L1 and Arabic-Italian early L2 children, i.e., exposed to Italian before 3 years of age. Children from first to fifth grade (age range: 6–11 years old) were tested on a range of morphol...

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Main Authors: Mirta Vernice, Elena Pagliarini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00011/full