Artículos de revistas
Contextual Reading and Metalinguistic Processing in Brazilian Portuguese: A Longitudinal Study
Fecha
2012Registro en:
PSICOLOGIA-REFLEXAO E CRITICA, PORTO ALEGRE RS, v. 25, n. 1, supl., Part 2, pp. 114-120, SEP, 2012
0102-7972
10.1590/S0102-79722012000100014
Autor
Peruzzi Elia da Mota, Marcia Maria
Vieira, Marcel de Toledo
Bastos, Ronaldo Rocha
Dias, Jaqueline
Paiva, Nadia
Mansur-Lisboa, Stella
Andrade-Silva, Danielle
Institución
Resumen
Metalinguistic skill is the ability to reflect upon language as an object of thought. Amongst metalinguistic skills, two seem to be associated with reading and spelling: morphological awareness and phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is the ability of reflecting upon the phonemes that compose words, and morphological awareness is the ability of reflecting upon the morphemes that compose the words. The latter seems to be particularly important for reading comprehension and contextual reading, as beyond phonological information, syntactic and semantic information are required. This study is set to investigate - with a longitudinal design - the relation between those abilities and contextual reading measured by the Cloze test. The first part of the study explores the relationship between morphological awareness tasks and Cloze scores through simple correlations and, in the second part, the specificity of such relationship was inquired using multiple regressions. The results give some support to the hypothesis that morphological awareness offers an independent contribution regarding phonological awareness to contextual reading in Brazilian Portuguese.