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On the nature of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in school-age English-Japanese bilingual and monolingual children

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Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge are two (among many) components of multi-faceted word knowledge critical for language development and ultimately, academic performance, as they strongly correlate with other essential, literacy-related skills, such as spelling, writing and reading comprehension (Ramirez, Chen, Geva & Kiefer, 2010). Developing these types of knowledge is a non-linear process for school-age children: morphological awareness, in particular, involves long-te...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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Education
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SSD
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Education
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Publication date:
2012
Type of award:
DPhil
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Doctoral
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Oxford University, UK


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English
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2013-07-11

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