Morphological and Syntactic Awareness in Poor Comprehenders: Another Piece of the Puzzle

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-33

  Tong, Xiuli ^a   Deacon, S Hélène ^b   Cain, Kate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

metalinguistic awareness; morphological awareness; poor comprehenders; reading comprehension; syntactic awareness

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

AWARENESS; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING;

EID: 84889643637     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219413509971     Document Type: Article

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