scholarly journals Syntactic features of written discourse at early primary school age - a longitudinal approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Maja Ivanovic
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Fourth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Early Primary ◽  
Primary School Age

By the acquisition of written language form during the first years of schooling, the child starts to move away from the elementary structures by including new, more complex constructions into the existing base. The aim of this paper is to study the ability of producing different clause types in the texts of first- and fourth-grade primary school students, i.e. to study the existing differences in the syntactic structures of texts between the older and younger students. The initial research as well as the repeated measuring after three years included forty-two students of one primary school from Belgrade. Since in both the first and the second cycle of the study each child composed three texts, the corpus consisted of 252 texts. The analysis of the obtained material was performed using the SPSS software package. The results provide an insight into the average length of texts and sentences produced by first-grade and fourth-grade students. The longer the duration of schooling, the lower the number of simple clauses (both basic and extended), as well as coordinate clauses, while the number of constructions with subordinate clauses is increasing. This finding confirms the fact that early primary school age children are expanding their syntactic competence, i.e. that their later language development continues in the school period. This can be helpful for teachers in the process of literacy acquisition and in developing the strategies that facilitate reaching the higher levels of competence in written discourse and evolving of children?s syntax towards the writing patterns of adult speakers.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN MONTENEGRO

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Novica Gardašević ◽  
Milan Anđelić ◽  
Marko Joksimović ◽  
Farruh Ahmedov
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Nutritional Analysis ◽  
Primary School Age

Nutritional analysis is a very important segment in monitoring the growth and development of school-age children. The aim of this study was to define the nutritional status based on the results of previous studies with samples taken from the population of primary school students in Montenegro. The analysis included 11 studies with a total of 8619 respondents of both sexes, which mainly dealt with the assessment of the nutritional status of respondents aged 6 to 15 years. Based on the analysis of the research results, it was determined that malnutrition and obesity are significantly present in children of primary school age of both sexes in Montenegro. Taking into account malnutrition and obesity together, the percentages range from 20-40%, which is typical for the Mediterranean countries of Europe, including Montenegro. Also, it was found that the application of different nutrition assessment standards gives different results that sometimes differ significantly on the same sample of respondents.

scholarly journals On the question of dyslalia correction in primary school-age children

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Iryna Оliinyk ◽  
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Liliia Tyshchenko ◽  
Larissa Yatseniuk ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
Primary School Age

The article discloses the problem of dyslalia treatment in primary school-age children. It highlights the scientific views of Ukrainian and foreign scientists concerning the diagnosis of dyslalia as a speech disorder. In particular, the author investigates various approaches to the classification of dyslalia in domestic and foreign literature and reveals the methodological foundations of dyslalia correction in the context of the formation of speech competence of primary school-age children of the New Ukrainian School.The study characterizes primary forms and types of dyslalia depending on the causes of its occurrence and the number of groups of disturbing sounds. Following the stages of speech therapy, the author describes a method for correcting violations of sound pronunciation and the formation of skills for accurate reproduction of sounds within children of primary school age.Particular attention is focused on the timely detection and correction of dyslalia in elementary school students to prevent the manifestation of violation processes in reading and writing, problems with communication in society, and the formation of the personality as a whole. The need to improve the competence of teachers, including primary school teachers working with children of this category, is noted in connection with the transition of primary schools to the new State Standard and the active introduction of inclusive education.The author substantiates the expediency of close cooperation of all participants in the educational process regarding the awareness of the shared responsibility for the child’s speech development

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CREATING FAIRY TALES AS A MEDIA EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT BY CHILDREN OF PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
IRYNA KUZMA
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Media Education ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
Educational Product ◽  
Primary School Age

Methodological peculiarities of creating fairy tales at preschool and primary education institutions have been investigated. The new State Standards for Preschool and Primary Education provide the development of children’s creativity and innovation. The importance of media education is growing due to the development of innovative media products, which is a fairy tale. It has been stressed on creating fairy tales as a component of storytelling. Emphasis has been placed on the fact that the ability to create a fairy tale is one of the learning outcomes of primary school students in accordance with the Typical educational programs. The objective of the article is to substantiate the methods of creating fairy tales as a media educational product of preschool and primary school age children in collaboration with parents and teachers. The following methods have been used to achieve the goal: the analysis of normative documents and pedagogical sources on the research problem; comparative-contrast, generalizations (for comparison of storytelling and creating fairy tales); surveys, interviews (to develop and test the effectiveness of methods of creating fairy tales as a media educational product). The origins of the creating fairy tales by children in the middle of the XXth century have been demonstrated. The common and distinctive features of traditional creating fairy tales and storytelling have been clarified. Contradictions regarding the use of storytelling have been identified, in particular between the growing interest in digital storytelling and the requirements for time-limited contact of children with gadgets and other technical devices. Four stages have been defined in the developed methods. They are the following: 1. Preparatory – choosing a favorite fairy tale. 2. Search – finding a situation in which a child becomes a participant. 3. Implementation – the child’s “entry” into a fairy tale, the design of his/her activities and the role or the profession in a fairy tale. 4. Final – the analysis of the child’s and other characters’ behavior in a fairy-tale situation. The ability to produce creatively media products as an indicator of media literacy formation has been reflected. Specific examples illustrate the ways to transform famous fairy tales into a new way. Emphasis has been placed on media educational tales as a means of media education at preschool and primary education institutions. The advantages of the developed methods of creating fairy tales have been shown: it allows parents, children and kindergarten teachers/teachers in partnership to transform well-known fairy tales in a new way, to implement the function of protection against harmful influences of new media, to strengthen family relations and family ties with preschool and primary education institutions, to improve media culture. The results of a survey of preschoolers’ parents on reading and creating fairy tales have been presented.

Time-Based Prospective Memory in Schoolchildren

2011 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babett Voigt ◽  
Ingo Aberle ◽  
Judith Schönfeld ◽  
Matthias Kliegel
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Strategic Monitoring ◽  
Primary School Age

The present study examined age differences in time-based prospective memory (TBPM) in primary school age children and tested the role of self-initiated memory retrieval and strategic time monitoring (TM) as possible developmental mechanisms. Fifty-four children were recruited from local primary schools (27 younger children, mean age = 7.2 ± 0.55 years, and 27 older children, mean age = 9.61 ± 0.71 years). The task was a driving game scenario in which children had to drive a vehicle (ongoing task) and to remember to refuel before the vehicle runs out of gas (TBPM task, i.e., the fuel gauge served as child-appropriate time equivalent). Fuel gauge was either displayed permanently (low level of self-initiation) or could only be viewed on demand by hitting a button (high level of self-initiation). The results revealed age-dependent TBPM differences with better performance in older children. In contrast, level of self-initiated memory retrieval did not affect TBPM performance. However, strategies of TM influenced TBPM, as more frequent time checking was related to better performance. Patterns of time checking frequency differed according to children’s age and course of the game, suggesting difficulties in maintaining initial strategic TM in younger children. Taken together, the study revealed ongoing development of TBPM across primary school age. Observed age differences seemed to be associated with the ability to maintain strategic monitoring.

scholarly journals Overcoming the Fear of Water at the Initial Stage of Learning to Swim

2017 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Olga Obrazhey
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Primary School Age

The article deals with the fear of children of primary school age to open water, which appears at the initial stage of teaching swimming and is a serious obstacle to mastering the skills of swimming. Analysis of the scientific researches indicate a lack of reasonable methods of overcoming fears associated with the water during swimming training and scientific methodological developments in the prevention and overcoming fears associated with water, which leads to certain problems and violations of logical consistency in teaching swimming. The following empirical methods as questionnaires, interviews, pedagogical observations are used. The article presents the results of a study of this problem, especially: the results of the survey of primary school children who arrived at the base of the summer camp «Lastochka» in Skadovsk of Kherson region in 2016 during the month of June as well as conversations and observations with them that took place in real conditions of training swimming. This study provided the opportunity to determine the origin of fear causes of primary school age children, to reveal the reasons and statistics of accidents at open water, to identify factors fear of open water of primary school age children. The article indicates signs of the most important physical symptoms associated with the fear of open water. Methodical recommendations developed to overcome fears at the initial stage of swimming lessons in open water based on the principles of psychological impact on the minds of everyone as well as the use of innovative techniques while swimming. Methodical recommendations focus on the preparation and organization of lessons with children of primary school age, with the problem of fear of open water. They aim to overcome fear and to achieve the main goals of the swimming lessons in the summer camp to teach swimming every child.

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