ZNAJOMOść WYBRANYCH TERMINÓW GRAMATYCZNYCH I ZAKRES PODSTAWOWYCH UMIEJęTNOśCI STUDENTÓW ROZPOCZYNAJĄCYCH STUDIA NA KIERUNKU FILOLOGIA POLSKA
The Knowledge of Selected Grammatical Terms and the Capacity of Basic Abilities of New Coming Students of Polish Philology

Summary/Abstract: versity students of Polish Philology are not familiar with a number of linguistic terms and have not mastered certain linguistic skills, which results in their difficulties with learning grammatical syllabus at the first year of their studies. The respondents are frequently unable to distinguish an inflectional subject and a morphological one, an inflectional ending and a suffix, parts of and a morphological one. In their view, a formant is either a suffix or a prefix, while a verb is just a synthetic structure. They cannot distinguish clearly polysemy and homonymy. Their knowledge of orthography and punctuation is not full. Some of their difficulties with spelling and inflection of names are quite frequent and typical in contemporary times. Thus the author of the article finds it essential to pay more attention to make sure that university freshmen acquire the command of some basic linguistic notions and abilities, e.g. by introducing additional exercises or classes on school grammar.

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