Literacy Research Network Guest Speaker Kyriakoula Rothou

Models of reading and existing research highlight the contribution of morphosyntactic skills—specifically, morphological and syntactic awareness—to both word reading and reading comprehension. Moreover, children with reading difficulties (e.g., dyslexia and poor reading comprehension) often show weaknesses in these skills.

This presentation reports findings from Greek, a language with a transparent orthography and rich morphology and syntax, on the impact of morphological and syntactic processing skills on reading development and reading difficulties. Our findings add to the growing literature on reading and reading difficulties by demonstrating that morphosyntactic skills play a key role in reading and by suggesting that they could be incorporated into the identification and intervention of reading difficulties in alphabetic languages that vary in orthographic depth.

Speaker biography

Kyriakoula Rothou is Assistant Professor in the School of Early Childhood Education at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (see also ORCHiD Connecting research and researchers). Her research examines reading development and reading difficulties, with a particular focus on how morphological and syntactic awareness relate to reading outcomes in children with and without reading difficulties.

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