This study analyzed the language development of school-aged students in terms of the semantic and syntactic structure of narratives. The language samples were collected through the story retelling from the children whose language ages were 6;0~6;5, 8;...
This study analyzed the language development of school-aged students in terms of the semantic and syntactic structure of narratives. The language samples were collected through the story retelling from the children whose language ages were 6;0~6;5, 8;0~8;5, and 10;0~10;5years. Each group consisted of 20 children.
The structure of narrative was analyzed through the devised story grammar. And the syntactic structure was characterized by the total number of T-units(minimal terminable units), the means of T-units per embedded clause, the means of T-units per words, and the means words within embedded clause. The One-way ANOVA was performed to see the significant difference between the age groups in the semantic structure of narratives and the syntactic structure. Subsequently, the Tukey HDS was also performed to see the significant difference among the groups.
The result of this study showed the significant differences in the category of story grammar, the total number of T-units, the means of T-units per embedded clause, the means of T-units per words, and the means of embedded clause per words within embedded clause.