The female nouns ending in -os and the problems in their acquisition from students of 5th and 6th grade

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Εφαρμοσμένη Γλωσσολογία. Διδακτική Γλώσσας
Library of the School of Education
Deposit date:
2018-04-23
Year:
2018
Author:
Sideratou Paraskevi
Supervisors info:
Γεωργία Κατσούδα, Ερευνήτρια Β΄ βαθμίδας Ακαδημίας Αθηνών
Γεωργία Ανδρέου, Καθηγήτρια ΠΤΕΑ,Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
Ευγενία Μαγουλά, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, ΠΤΔΕ,ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Τα θηλυκά σε -ος και τα προβλήματα στην κατάκτησή τους από μαθητές της Ε΄ και της ΣΤ΄
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
The female nouns ending in -os and the problems in their acquisition from students of 5th and 6th grade
Summary:
This study has attempted to detect in the students’ writings of 5th and 6th grade if there are problems in the acquisition of females ending in -os, as well as the causes of these problems. The results of an experiment, which was held, were analyzed and the relevant bibliography was exploited to spot these problems and their causes. A test, which was constructed, was given to 93 students of 5th grade and to 125 students of 6th grade in the mother tongue, which was the Greek one. The students were invited to fill in not only [+human] but also [-human] females ending in -os in the proper form, to accent on the females stressed on the antepenult, to choose the right form of female toponyms with phonetic ending -os, to supplement adjectives, as well as the definite article in the right form, in order to accompany the females in -os. The tests were corrected by the researcher and the children’s mistakes were counted per exercise and per form. The researcher analyzed the arithmetic data with the help of graphics in Excel and found out the children’s tendency to form females in -os with suffixes of prototypical females and the tendency to prefer nominative of Singular without ending in -s and genitive of Singular ending in -s. In addition, the reduced number of mistakes in the tests of the 6th grade in all the exercises leads the researcher to the conclusion that revision and the students’ linguistic maturity has improved the degree of the consolidation of this scholar inflection.
Main subject category:
Language – Literature
Keywords:
female, acquisition, prototypical, mistakes
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
41
Number of pages:
98
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