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S. Hélène Deacon

Researcher at Dalhousie University

Publications -  108
Citations -  4973

S. Hélène Deacon is an academic researcher from Dalhousie University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Reading comprehension. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 96 publications receiving 4040 citations. Previous affiliations of S. Hélène Deacon include University of Oxford.

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Morphological awareness: Just "more phonological"? The roles of morphological and phonological awareness in reading development

TL;DR: This article found that morphological awareness contributed significantly to pseudoword reading and reading comprehension, after controlling prior measures of reading ability, verbal and nonverbal intelligence, and phonological awareness.
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The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Skills A Systematic Review of the Literature

TL;DR: This paper conducted a meta-analysis of morphological interventions for reading, spelling, vocabulary, and morphological skills in children from preschool to grade 8 and found that morphological instruction benefits learners, and brings particular benefits for less able readers.
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Children's Morphological Awareness and Reading Ability.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effects of morphological awareness on five measures of reading in 103 children from Grades 1 to 3, and concluded that it has important roles in word reading and reading comprehension, and suggest that it should be included more frequently in assessments and instruction.
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Morphological Awareness: A Key to Understanding Poor Reading Comprehension in English.

TL;DR: This article examined the performance of poor comprehenders on several readingrelated abilities in the late elementary school years and found that poor morphological awareness contributes to reading comprehension difficulties and that children with different reading comprehension profiles may learn morphology at different rates.
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Crossover: the role of morphological awareness in French immersion children's reading.

TL;DR: Results of this study suggest that morphological awareness can be applied to reading across orthographies and that this relationship changes as children build their language and literacy skills.