Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers

Emre Laçin; Birkan Güldenoğlu; Tevhide Kargın

doi:10.24106/kefdergi.419285

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Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to comparatively examine the morphological awareness skills of Turkish deaf and normal hearing readers. The study group consisted of 112 students (53 were deaf students and 59 were students with normal hearing) who were enrolled in high schools in Ankara. Two different fill-in the blank tasks were developed in order to assess students’ morphological awareness skills in this study. For both of the tasks the students were asked to fill-in the blanks in the sentences by adding appropriate suffixes to the target words. The tasks were carried out in a predetermined place in students’ schools during one-to-one sessions and lasted about 10 to 15 minutes in average. MANOVA was used to analyze the data collected from the tasks. The results of the analyses showed that deaf students had significant limitations in morphological awareness skills compared to their hearing counterparts. This finding is discussed in terms of language skills and its impacts on reading acquisition of deaf students.

Keywords

morphology,morphological awareness,deaf readers,reading and reading comprehension.

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Emre Laçin
Türkiye

Birkan Güldenoğlu
Türkiye

Tevhide Kargın
Türkiye

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May 15, 2018

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January 27, 2017

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July 22, 2017

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Year 2018 Volume: 26 Number: 3

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Laçin, E., Güldenoğlu, B., & Kargın, T. (2018). Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers. Kastamonu Education Journal, 26(3), 653-660. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.419285

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1.Laçin E, Güldenoğlu B, Kargın T. Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers. Kastamonu Education Journal. 2018;26(3):653-660. doi:10.24106/kefdergi.419285

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Laçin, Emre, Birkan Güldenoğlu, and Tevhide Kargın. 2018. “Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers”. Kastamonu Education Journal 26 (3): 653-60. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.419285.

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Laçin E, Güldenoğlu B, Kargın T (May 1, 2018) Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers. Kastamonu Education Journal 26 3 653–660.

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[1]E. Laçin, B. Güldenoğlu, and T. Kargın, “Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers”, Kastamonu Education Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 653–660, May 2018, doi: 10.24106/kefdergi.419285.

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Laçin, Emre - Güldenoğlu, Birkan - Kargın, Tevhide. “Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers”. Kastamonu Education Journal 26/3 (May 1, 2018): 653-660. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.419285.

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1.Laçin E, Güldenoğlu B, Kargın T. Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers. Kastamonu Education Journal. 2018;26:653–660.

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Laçin, Emre, et al. “Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers”. Kastamonu Education Journal, vol. 26, no. 3, May 2018, pp. 653-60, doi:10.24106/kefdergi.419285.

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1.Emre Laçin, Birkan Güldenoğlu, Tevhide Kargın. Examining the Morphological Awareness of Deaf Turkish Readers. Kastamonu Education Journal. 2018 May 1;26(3):653-60. doi:10.24106/kefdergi.419285

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