So, Morphological Awareness Contributes to Reading in Brazilian Portuguese?

Freitas Junior, Pedro Viana de; Mota, Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da

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ARTIGOS • Psico-USF 20 (3) • Sep-Dec 2015 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712015200309 copy

So, Morphological Awareness Contributes to Reading in Brazilian Portuguese?

Então, a Consciência Morfológica Contribui para a Leitura no Português Brasileiro?

Entonces, ¿la Conciencia Morfológica Contribuye para la Lectura en el Portugués Brasileño?

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

The present study aims to answer a recently raised controversy regarding the role that morphological awareness has to reading skills acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese. The aim was to investigate whether morphological awareness contributes to reading after controlling for non-verbal intelligence and phonological awareness in Brazilian Portuguese variables. The study included 52 elementary school students enrolled in a public school in the municipality of São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro. The hierarchical regression analyses showed that derivational morphological awareness contributes to reading independently of phonological processing and non-verbal ability. The results of this study indicate that morphological awareness contributes to reading words but not to reading comprehension. The results of this study corroborate with the hypothesis that even in an alphabetic language, such as Portuguese, morphological awareness is important to reading acquisition.

Keywords:
reading; morphological awareness; literacy; non-verbal intelligence

Tasks	Mean	S.D.	Max.	Min.	Skewness	S.D. Skw.	Kurtosis	S.D. Kur
Age	131.44	12.01	108.00	159.00	0.45	0.32	-0.14	0.63
Reading	62.80	9.32	70.00	19.00	-2.74	0.32	9.34	0.63
Non-verbal intelligence	89.98	8.79	108.00	75.00	0.47	0.32	-0.63	0.63
Inflectional morphology	6.20	2.17	8.00	0.00	-1.12	0.32	0.25	0.63
Derivational morphology	5.42	1.78	8.00	1.00	-0.30	0.32	-0.47	0.63
Neologism	3.38	1.91	7.00	0.00	-0.15	0.32	-0.93	0.63
Reading comprehension	6.92	2.42	11.00	0.00	-0.65	0.32	0.44	0.63
Spoonerism 1	6.77	2.63	10.00	0.00	-0.51	0.32	-0.50	0.63
Spoonerism 2	4.48	3.18	10.00	0.00	0.22	0.32	-1.17	0.63

Variables	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Log TDE/reading	0.25**	-0.49**	-0.57**	0.43**	-0.38**	-0.74**	-0.70**
Non-verbal intelligence		0.28**	0.14	0.10	0.24*	0.44**	0.38**
Inflectional			0.25*	0.31*	0.34**	0.53**	0.50**
Derivational				0.38**	0.11	0.47**	0.55**
Neologism					0.32**	0.35**	0.32*
Comp text						0.34**	0.36**
Spoon 1							0.72*
Spoon 2

Steps		Variables		Criteria
Steps		Reading		Text Comprehension
	Explicative variables	R²	R²∆	P	R²	R²∆	P
1.	Non-verbal intelligence	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.08
2.	Spoonerism 1	0.55	0.48	0.01**	0.13	0.07	0.05*
3.	Derivational morphology	0.61	0.59	0.01**	0.13	0.01	0.70
3.	Inflectional morphology	0.57	0.01	0.22	0.16	0.02	0.24
2.	Spoonerism 2	0.50	0.43	0.01**	0.14	0.08	0.03*
3.	Derivational morphology	0.55	0.05	0.02**	0.14	0.10	0.44
3.	Inflectional morphology	0.52	0.02	0.12	0.17	0.02	0.26
1.	Non-verbal intelligence	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.06	0.06	0.08
2.	Spoonerism 1	0.53	0.51	0.01**	0.13	0.07	0.05*
3.	Neologism	0.57	0.54	0.06	0.18	0.05	0.09
2.	Spoonerism 2	0.52	0.46	0.01**	0.14	0.08	0.04*
3.	Neologism	0.57	0.04	0.03*	0.20	0.05	0.09

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[1] Contato com os autores: Secretaria do Mestrado e Doutorado em Psicologia Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da MotaE-mail:mmotapsi@gmail.comUniversidade Salgado de Oliveira - UNIVERSO - Campus Niterói Rua Mal. Deodoro, 263 - Centro - Niterói/RJ CEP: 24030-060.