Akoğlu, Gözde Kırıkkale University - Department of Child Development, Turkey

Syntax Comprehension Skills of Turkish Children between the Ages 4 and 7

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The purpose of the study was to analyses the syntax comprehension of children between the ages 4 and 7, the relationship between their receptive language and chronological age and syntax comprehension skills on the basis of Turkish syntactic features. The study group consisted of 283 children in total (158 girls and 125 boys). The results revealed that there exists a significant moderate and positive relationship between the receptive language and chronological ages, syntax comprehension and chronological ages, syntax comprehension and receptive language ages. When the partial and dual correlations between predictor variables and dependent variables are considered, we can identify a positive and moderate relationship between chronological age and syntax comprehension skills, (r=0.44). When the syntax comprehension skills of the study group are analyzed, we see how children between 48 and 60 months, and 61 and 72 months gave wrong answers to similar sentence structures, whereas older children gave wrong answers to different structures. The results obtained from research is consistent with the studies in the literature and it is determined that relative importance order of predictor variables are receptive language age and chronological age.

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Chronological age , receptive language age , syntax comprehension

Başkent University Journal Of Education

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