Resilient readers comprehend written language despite word reading deficits. The reading resiliency framework specifies candidate protective factors hypothesized to mitigate adverse effects on reading comprehension arising from phonological decoding deficiencies and, consequently, illuminates how some individuals exhibit relative reading resiliency. A focus on relative reading resiliency involves an examination of individual strengths and weaknesses because areas of relative strength can bolster one’s abilities. The ability for morphological awareness and vocabulary to be strengths or protective factors contributing to reading resiliency was explored in a sample of university students. Morphological awareness is predicted to be a particularly important skill for university students due to the complexity of texts encountered in their coursework. A measure of word-level morphological awareness was positively associated with relative reading resiliency. Furthermore, across norm-referenced and standardized high-stakes testing measures of reading comprehension, vocabulary mediated the impact of morphological awareness on comprehension after controlling for phonological decoding ability. These findings suggest that morphological awareness and vocabulary skills are important contributing factors to reading comprehension and reading resilience.

尽管文字阅读有缺陷，但有弹性的读者仍能理解书面语言。阅读弹性框架指定了假设的候选保护因素，以减轻语音解码缺陷对阅读理解的不利影响，因此阐明了某些人如何表现出相对阅读弹性。对相对阅读弹性的关注涉及对个人优势和劣势的检查，因为相对优势的领域可以增强一个人的能力。在大学生样本中探索了形态意识和词汇作为有助于阅读弹性的优势或保护因素的能力。由于课程作业中遇到的文本的复杂性，预计形态意识将成为大学生的一项特别重要的技能。词级形态意识的测量与相对阅读弹性呈正相关。此外，在阅读理解的规范参考和标准化高风险测试措施中，词汇在控制语音解码能力后介导了形态意识对理解的影响。这些发现表明，形态意识和词汇技能是影响阅读理解和阅读弹性的重要因素。