Relations entre morphologie, vocabulaire et compréhension écrite en français langue seconde
The present study seeks to investigate the relationship between reading comprehension, vocabulary, and the graphomorphologic processing abilities of college students studying French as a second language at intermediate and intermediate-advanced levels. Many of these students face written comprehension difficulties which are often addressed from the vantage point of lexical knowledge and graphomorphological processing, the capacity to coordinate information that is orthographic, phonologic, and semantic in nature while reading.  The results of the study demonstrate that students possess weak vocabulary, which could explain in part the problems they face with respect to written comprehension. As well, even if students at the intermediate-advanced level demonstrate better levels of written comprehension and a larger vocabulary in comparison to students at the intermediate level, their capacity with respect to graphomorphological processing are the same. The evidence demonstrates that the links between the three variables seem to be stronger for students at the intermediate level than at the intermediate-advanced level, which could imply that graphomorphological processing plays a more important role for less proficient second language learners.
Second Language Reading comprehension Vocabulary Morphological Processing French as a Second Language