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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Morphological awareness is crucial for reading development.
  • Arabic language's unique morphology presents specific challenges and opportunities for research.
  • Understanding morphological processing in Arabic is vital for literacy acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of derivational morphological awareness (root and word-pattern) in Arabic-speaking children.
  • To examine the role of morphological processing in Arabic spelling abilities across different grade levels.
  • To contextualize findings within a developmental psycholinguistic framework, considering Arabic linguistic features.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with 143 typically developing Arabic-speaking children from 2nd, 4th, and 6th grades.
  • Experiment 1 assessed derivational root and word-pattern morphological awareness.
  • Experiment 2 evaluated morphological processing in spelling real words and pseudowords.

Main Results:

  • Derivational morphological awareness emerges early in Arabic-speaking children.
  • Root awareness was found to develop earlier than word-pattern awareness.
  • Morphological processing significantly contributes to spelling abilities in Arabic across all tested grades.

Conclusions:

  • Arabic-speaking children exhibit early development of morphological awareness, with root awareness preceding word-pattern awareness.
  • Morphological processing plays a significant role in spelling proficiency for Arabic-speaking children throughout elementary school.
  • Findings highlight the importance of considering the specific linguistic characteristics of Arabic in developmental psycholinguistic research on literacy.