An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.16 Ability of Written Expression and Composition
in Elementary School Children
(Report 63, 1978. 411 pages)
This book reports on a survey of children's writing
expression with the goal of describing the writing ability and
writing activities of elementary school children. We
restricted the present survey to writing expression because,
according to the results in Report 26, The Development of the
Language Ability of School Children, writing expression ability
showed the highest and most stable correlation with other
linguistic abilities.
This book reports on the following surveys.
1. Test of Writing Expression Ability- This test is
particularly noteworthy for the way its questions were
designed so that in the future it can be used for comparison with
children of the same school year.
2. Survey of Writing Expression Activities- We investigated
elementary school children's Chinese character usage,
descriptions of things and sounds, expressions of events,
usage of conversational dialogue, and usage of honorific
expressions through compositions which they had written.
3. Survey of the Various Factors Related to Evaluation of
the Quality of Elementary School Children's Written
Compositions- The factors surveyed included the day and time
that children wrote the compositions, topic,
instructions, and differences among the evaluators.
4. Questionnaire on Linguistic Life for the Purpose of
Investigating Connections with Ability in Writing
Expression- We found that children who wrote compositions
frequently, children who enjoyed reading, and children who
kept diaries scored highly on Test 1, the Test of Writing
Expression Ability.
5. Questionnaire on the Actual Situation of Composition
Instruction.
This survey was directed by MURAISI Syo~zo~, NEMOTO Kesao,
and OKAMOTO Keiroku, and the report was written by MURAISI
Syo~zo~.
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