This study examined the crosslinguistic sharing of morphological awareness (MA) in
biliteracy development. The analysis included 34 correlational studies with 41 independent …

Lexical inferencing functions as one of the most important and effective skills used in
language comprehension pertaining to psychological, cognitive and neurological aspects …

This study examined the contributions of morphological awareness (MA) to second
language (L2) word meaning inferencing in English‐speaking adult learners of Chinese (N …

This Element aims to address the complexity of metalinguistic awareness to achieve a
thorough account of its impacts on second language (L2) reading development and promote …

Morphological awareness contributes to vocabulary acquisition and reading in bilingual
children who learned English after their native language. In line with these considerations …

Learners' ability to infer unknown words' meanings (lexical inferencing) plays a key role in
word knowledge development for second language (L2) learners. It has recently been …

The bulk of second language (L2) vocabulary learning happens incidentally through reading
(;), but individual differences, such as prior knowledge, modulate the efficacy of such …

This study investigated how experience with a first language (L1) writing system affects the
development of the second language (L2) word recognition subskills and how L2 linguistic …

In an experimental design, we investigated how fifth-grade readers use morphological and
contextual information to infer the meaning of unknown words, and to what extent this is …

Recent second language (L2) reading studies have examined how characteristics of an
individual learner and word-specific linguistic properties jointly predict successful L2 word …