Esszészövegek grammatikai elemzése

Abstract

This study–within the framework of a research project on adults’ writing strategies–provides the analysis of essay texts produced by teacher trainees. It summarizes the main results of earlier research on related topics, then it introduces the results of the grammatical analysis of the essay texts. This research also covers sentence types in the paragraphs, the ratio of simple and complex sentences in the essay texts; the relations between text length, sentence number, and sentence types; the use of demonstratives and conjunctions, and the analysis of subordinate and coordinate relations at sentence level. Continuing earlier phases of the research project, this study also discusses the gender-dependent text production characteristics as well as the grammatical differences in the essays of teacher trainees majoring in humanities, natural sciences and both. The research results might be useful not only for further research but also in the first language education at secondary school.