Quality Analysis of the Written Russian Language of Students of Latvia

• Authors: Margarita Gavrilina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A decrease in the quality of the written language of students is one of the most topical and therefore one of the most heatedly discussed problems among teachers and students' parents; it is one of the problems discussed in linguadidactics. In the following article issues regarding young students' linguistic behaviour in their native (Russian) language have been analysed. The material presented in the article is based on the results of a scientific research conducted in schools throughout Latvia in 2008.The aim of the study is to identify to what extent the development of the linguistic personality of young students in their native (Russian) language is successful. To this end, primary school teachers analysed the situation regarding the development of the written linguistic behaviour of students of Grade 4. The issues were identified, typical linguistic mistakes were noted and characterised, and reasons for making them were found out.During the research, 55 primary school teachers filled out a questionnaire; 735 papers written by students of Grade 4 from various schools in Latvia were analysed; a comparative analysis of teachers' opinions was carried out to uncover problem areas of the students' linguistic behaviour.The results of the conducted study allows drawing the following conclusions:- In many ways, primary school teachers see the situation regarding linguistic literacy differently in comparison to what it actually is like.- The quality of the written Russian language of primary school students directly depends on what type of bilingual educational model is implemented in the class or school.- Most often the reason for a language mistake found in the written language of a student is complex.- The analysis of the students' written language shows that the development of their Russian linguistic personality proceeds with insufficient success.

Keywords

EN

native (Russian) language in the diaspora; linguistic behaviour of young students; bilingualism; spelling and punctuation mistakes; textual skills

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ad verba liberorum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-61

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2012-08-21

Contributors

author

Margarita Gavrilina

• University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10196-011-0018-x