Közlések grammatikai szerkesztettsége 6–9 éves gyermekek narratíváiban

Abstract

This study investigates the syntactic structuredness in the spontaneous narratives of children aged between 6 and 9, with the Developmental Sentence Scoring technique. The question of this research is what the grammatical complexity of children’s utterances is like at given ages and how the structuredness of the utterances, the length of the narratives, and the speed of speech change year by year. The results show that compared to children aged between 6 and 8, children at the age of nine produce narratives of more words and these narratives are grammatically more complex. The investigation has found large individual differences between children. The level of language development can have an effect on learning and on the written/oral performance of the learnt material, moreover, the different language performance level might affect the successfulness of the learning process.