The contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension among EFL college students: assessing the applicability of the morphological pathway framework
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| Published in: | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education vol. 10, no. 1 (Dec 2025), p. 48 |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Altheneyan, Aseel |u King Saud University, Deanship of Common First Year, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (GRID:grid.56302.32) (ISNI:0000 0004 1773 5396) | |
| 245 | 1 | |a The contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension among EFL college students: assessing the applicability of the morphological pathway framework | |
| 260 | |b Springer Nature B.V. |c Dec 2025 | ||
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| 520 | 3 | |a The contribution of morphological knowledge to literacy skills has been well-established in previous research. Discrepancies have been detected in how such influence is realized among different populations. This study aimed to examine the applicability of the morphological pathway framework among EFL learners, focusing on morphosemantic knowledge. To achieve this aim, data were collected over the course of three weeks from 101 college-level students taking an intensive English language course. A battery of paper-based and computer-based tests was used to measure learners’ morphosemantic knowledge, morphological-based lexical inferencing, morphological decomposition ability, vocabulary size, and reading comprehension. The study revealed that while morphological-based lexical inferencing greatly mediated the effect of morphosemantic knowledge on reading comprehension, morphological decomposition did not account for any difference. Structural equation modeling analysis uncovered a different processing mechanism, where morphological decomposition facilitates lexical inferencing rather than reading comprehension. The analysis also revealed that the contributions of morphosemantic knowledge and processing were highly dependent on lexical processes, whereby vocabulary mediated the effect of morphosemantic knowledge and significantly assisted in lexical disambiguation. This indicates that L1 and L2 readers follow different morphological processing routes during reading. The findings have implications for morphology and reading instruction in the EFL context. | |
| 653 | |a Reading comprehension | ||
| 653 | |a Literacy | ||
| 653 | |a Lexical processing | ||
| 653 | |a Knowledge | ||
| 653 | |a Compositionality | ||
| 653 | |a College students | ||
| 653 | |a Second language reading instruction | ||
| 653 | |a Decomposition | ||
| 653 | |a English as a second language | ||
| 653 | |a Skills | ||
| 653 | |a Vocabulary size | ||
| 653 | |a Second language reading | ||
| 653 | |a Morphological processing | ||
| 653 | |a Information sources | ||
| 653 | |a Morphology | ||
| 653 | |a English as a second language instruction | ||
| 653 | |a Semantics | ||
| 653 | |a Comprehension | ||
| 653 | |a Literacy skills | ||
| 653 | |a English language | ||
| 653 | |a Teaching | ||
| 653 | |a Structural equation modeling | ||
| 653 | |a Vocabulary | ||
| 653 | |a Discrepancies | ||
| 653 | |a Morphemes | ||
| 653 | |a Inferences | ||
| 653 | |a Cognitive Processes | ||
| 653 | |a Word Processing | ||
| 653 | |a Reading Fluency | ||
| 653 | |a English (Second Language) | ||
| 653 | |a Vocabulary Skills | ||
| 653 | |a Syntax | ||
| 653 | |a Reading Processes | ||
| 653 | |a Student Evaluation | ||
| 653 | |a English Learners | ||
| 653 | |a Language Processing | ||
| 653 | |a Lexicology | ||
| 653 | |a Reading Ability | ||
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