Esszészövegek szerkezetének kvantitatív elemzése

Abstract

There are more and more papers published on the challenges of teaching composition at school in Hungary but there is little research done on the text production performance of adults, including university students. The present study provides the analysis of essays about Hungarian language as the text products of university students. The hypotheses are based on international and Hungarian research carried out both in primary/secondary and higher education. The aim of the research is to find out the gender-specific characteristics of the length and structure of the texts. Another aim is to compare the text production performance of teacher training students studying in the fields of natural sciences, computer studies, and humanities. Research findings provide a base to investigate essay texts further from a new perspective. The conclusions based on the results can support the need for first language development at university-level as well.