A relação entre a consciência morfológica e a leitura de palavras: um olhar sobre a decodificação morfológica

Abstract

Morphological awareness is a multidimensional skill that contributes to reading isolated words. It has been suggested that one of these dimensions is morphological decoding. Considering the importance of morphological awareness, search the nature of its relationship with reading is important. The present study intends to know if morphological decoding influences on word reading accuracy. Selected for the study we had 300 children of the 3rd, 4th and 5th years of elementary schools based in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Isolated Reading Task (Scholar Performance Test -TDE-II), Vocabulary, Cubes (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - 4th Edition WISC-IV), Morphological Awareness and Morphological Decoding Tasks (divided between control items and words) were applied. Morphologically complex paired by frequency, spelling and final sound. The results showed statistically significant correlations between morphological decoding and control words and reading in the TDE-II. There was no statistically significant difference between reading accuracy for control words and morphologically complex ones. These results suggest that the two types of words require similar cognitive reading strategies. More studies involving morphological decoding are necessary to understand the nature of morphological processing in reading in Portuguese.