Kargin, TevhideGuldenoglu, BirkanGengec, HilalToker, Merih2025-01-212025-01-2120230090-69051573-6555https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09916-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/25681This study examined the importance of morphological knowledge in the reading comprehension difficulties of poor comprehenders reading in a highly agglutinative language, Turkish. Participants were 56 students recruited from the second and third grades. In the assessment process, we applied three experimental paradigms addressing the participants' morphological and morpho-syntactical knowledge at the lexical and the supralexical levels. Data were collected in individual sessions and analyzed by running a series of GLM ANOVAs and calculating the Spearman-Brown correlation coefficient. Findings suggest morphological knowledge is an important indicator of reading comprehension difficulties in Turkish, a highly agglutinative language. The acquisition of adequate reading comprehension seems to be modified by particularities of the morphological knowledge.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessReading; Reading comprehension; Morphology; Morpho-syntax; Morphological decodingArticle52265367310.1007/s10936-022-09916-12-s2.0-8514087961736306042Q1WOS:000875513700001Q2