An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.4.7 The Language Ability of Children
in the Third and Fourth Grades
(Report 14, 1958. 389 pages)
This is a report on a study of the development of the
language ability of children from the first term of the third
grade to the end of the fourth grade.
Besides covering the real conditions and characteristics of
the development of understanding in silent reading, reading
speed and oral reading skill, we cover the eyeball
movement during reading.
We examine the development of not only the ability to write
compositions on decided subjects or on the same experience,
such as an excursion, but also the ability to write for various
purposes, for instance, letters and records. We also deal with
the relationship between the ability to write compositions
and the ability to evaluate them. We mainly describe the
ability to read and write sentences in this period,
searching for the factors that influence its development, and
add a report on case studies. The reader can thus see the
outline of the state and problems of the development of the
ability to use the orthography of characters, both katakana
and kanzi, and the development of the power of vocabulary and
grammar. The real conditions of reading at home, which becomes
active in this period, are reported in detail, along with
concrete records of reading notes. Studies of reading at home
and of social nature are appended.
This survey was made by KOSIMIZU Minoru, ASIZAWA
Setu, TAKAHASI Taro~ and MURAISI Syo~zo~.
(The development of speaking and listening ability in this
period is described in Annual Report 9, 1957.)
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