Grammatical awareness and the spelling of inflectional morphemes in Danish.

Autor/in	Juul, Holger
Titel	Grammatical awareness and the spelling of inflectional morphemes in Danish.
Quelle	In: International journal of applied linguistics, 15 (2005) 1, S. 87-112Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1473-4192
DOI	10.1111/j.1473-4192.2005.00082.x
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Multiple-Choice-Verfahren; Kind; Artikulation (Ling); Flexion; Grammatikalische Kompetenz; Partizip; Präsens; Sprachbewusstsein; Wortart; Wortschatz; Englisch; Dänisch
Abstract	Danish sixth-graders (N = 32, mean age 12:7 years) were asked to spell words with inflectional endings which had grammatically unique but phonemically inconsistent spellings: present tense verbs and present participles. As found in a previous Danish study using pseudo-words (Juul and Elbro in press), such spellings were a major spelling problem. The study shows that in spite of a weak intercorrelation, scores for both types of inflections correlate with grammatical awareness as measured through an 'odd word out' task. This supports the relevance of grammatical awareness for inflectional spelling competence, which has also been demonstrated in studies of English 8- to 10-year-olds (e.g. Nunes et al. 1997a). The study extends previous findings by distinguishing awareness of two aspects of grammar: word class distinctions, related here to the spelling of present tense verbs, and inflections, related here to the spelling of participles. Thus, grammatical awareness and inflectional spelling competence appear to be heterogeneous concepts. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2023/1