Analysis of pragmatic abilities in school children

Autor: Otašević, Jadranka, Čolić, Gordana
Přispěvatelé: Nedović G., Eminović F.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Approaches and Models in Special Education and Rehabilitation – Thematic Collection of International Importance
Popis: Communicative functions are abstract units that reflect the speaker's communicative intent. They involve motivation, aims and objectives that one wishes to achieve by communicating with other. Conversational abilities refer to the subject's capacity for participating on an interactive sequence of speech acts which aims the communicative interchange. Pragmatic language ability refers to the ability to use language in a social context. Methods: participants of this study were 40 children, with ages between 7 and 12 years, who attended primary school. The aim of this research was to investigate pragmatic ability in school age children and to compare pragmatic abilities in relation to age, intelligence and social experience. For testing, we used the Test of Pragmatic Language-TOPL (Diana Phelps -Terasaki & Phelps-Gunn Trisha). Results: The results showed that the intelligence quotient is directly related to the achievements of the pragmatic language test, there are significant differences in the achievements of children in relation to the education of their parents too. Conclusion: these results confirm the assumption of intelligence as basic ability and relatively reliable predictive factor in the development of pragmatic skills as well as the children whose parents have higher education have more stimulating speech and language backgrounds and diverse cultural-sociological models of communication.
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