A nyelvi, metanyelvi tudatosság elemei a szövegértési képességfejlesztés folyamatában
The Elements of Linguistic and Metalinguistic Awareness in the Process of Developing Reading Comprehension Skills

Author(s): Györgyi Zs. Sejtes
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: reading comprehension skills; linguistic and metalinguistic awareness
Summary/Abstract: Linguistic awareness is an indispensable condition in the acquisition of reading and understanding texts. It is a task of institutionalized mother tongue education to familiarize students with the linguistic structure and develop reading and text production competence. Knowledge of language and its use should go hand in hand during the process of development. This hand-in-hand process works especially well with the age-group of 13- to 14-year-old students, who have already started developing abstract-logical thinking and can become capable of consciously applying their metalinguistic knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to present the readers with an action research project which compares the reading comprehension results of a given class in the national competence survey with their test results measuring their metalinguistic knowledge of the notion of text. The question addressed is whether there is a correlation between their level of text comprehension and their text linguistic knowledge. Our hypothesis is that students who perform well in text comprehension have a more elaborate notion of text. We also examine what metalinguistic knowledge helps the more successful students perform better than the others and incorporate that knowledge into their future development.

• Details
• Contents