An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.8 The Language Ability of Children
in the Fifth and Sixth Grades
(Report 17, 1960. 427 pages)
This is a survey of the development of language ability from
the first term of the fifth grade to the third term of the
sixth grade.
We examined in what ways the power of understanding
develops in silent reading, and what problems are thus raised.
We also examined the development of reading speed with relation to
understanding and the development of eyeball movement. We
examined writing ability through compositions on the same
subjects. We also investigated it through compositions
written for many purposes, such as letters, records and
descriptions of impressions, and through a test of basic
ability in composition, such as the usage of words, the
connection of sentences, the construction of whole
discourses and revision skill. A case study is reported, a study
of the development of language ability in two children (a
boy and a girl) who had a peculiar superiority and inferiority
respectively in reading and writing ability with relation to
their other language skills. A diagnosis of the primary
factors is appended. About vocabulary and grammar skills, which
develop rapidly in this period, we undertook to make questions
to determine the power of understanding and using, and to
make clear where the problems exist. We tried to investigate
the real state of the ability to use kanzi by examining the
conditions of kanzi learning ourside school and by examining
pupils in the writing and reading of the 881 kanzi obliged to be
learned during the period of compulsory education.
Generally in this period individual differences appear,
together with the phenomena of general development. The
state of the development of reading at home is reported on in
detail, as in the report on the third and fourth grades.
This survey was undertaken by KOSIMIZU Minoru, ASIZAWA Setu,
TAKAHASI Taro~ and MURAISI Syo~zo~.
(The development of speaking and listening ability in this
period is reported on in Annual Report 10, 1958.)
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