4–6 éves gyermekek félspontán narratíváinak grammatikai szerkesztettsége

Abstract

The study analyses the syntactic complexity of 4-6-year-old children′s semi-spontaneous narratives with the methodology of Developmental Sentence Scoring. It seeks answers to the question of how the grammatical complexity of children′s narratives develops at certain ages, how the length of narratives and the speech rate change from year to year, and how grammatical complexity is affected if parents often read aloud to their children. Results showed that 6-year-old children produced narratives consisting of more words, which were also more complex grammatically, in a comparison with 4–5-year-olds. In case of children whose parents read aloud to them quite rarely, poorer results were obtained than in case of children whose parents read aloud to them every night. During the examination, large individual differences were observed. The development of the language level can affect later learning processes, so it is very important to make the appropriate development after early recognition of possible lags.