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Assessing spelling skills related to morphosyntax of German-French biliterate pupils in a multilingual educational context

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Context

Multilingual education:

Luxembourg is officially trilingual: Luxembourgish, German and French.

German is the language in which children learn how to read and write from grade 1 on. Written French is added to the curriculum in grade 3. Luxembourgish remains the language of communication throughout primary school.

More languages are present due to a high percentage of immigration (50,3% in 2013) of which most are Portuguese, Slavic, French, Italian,…).

Aim

Orthography does not only include phonological but also morphosyntactic information. In German any word that has the position of the nucleus of a nominal phrase is highlighted with an initial capital letter. The spelling difficulty of capitalization depends on the lexical-semantic characteristics (concrete nouns, abstract nouns,

nominalization), syntactical position and frequency.1,2

In French plural is generally only marked in writing. Nominal plural is marked by <-s> and verbal plural by <-ent>. The difficulty to acquire the (correct) plural marker is dependent on the word category (noun, adjectives, verbs) and position as well as the frequency of both.3

The aim is to verify if the difficulty patterns of morphosyntactic information only marked in writing (but not distinguishable in speech) found for monolinguals are

confirmed for pupils acquiring the two writing systems (German: capitalization, French: plural endings).

Testing spelling skills that relate on morphosyntactic information in a multilingual context

Sonja Ugen

a

, Natalia Bilici

a

, Michel Fayol

a

, Reinold Funke

b

, Constanze Weth

a

a

University of Luxembourg,

b

Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg

References

1Betzel, D. (2015). Zum weiterführenden Erwerb der satzinternen Großschreibung. Eine leistungsdifferenzierte Längsschnittsstudie in der Sekundarstufe I. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag.

2Funke, R., Wieland, R., Schönenberg, S., & Melzer, F. (2013). Exploring syntactic structures in first-language education: effects on literacy-related achievements. L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 13, 1–24.

3Fayol, M., Totereau, C., & Barrouillet, P. (2006). Disentangling the impact of semantic and formal factors in the acquisition of number inflections: Noun, adjective and verb agreement in written French. Reading and Writing, 19(7), 717–736.

Contact

sonja.ugen@uni.lu

Test Design: German

Method

Conclusions

Children acquiring German and French at school show similar difficulty patterns as shown in the literature for German/French monolinguals. The morphosyntactic difficulties under study are thus specific to the acquisition of writing skills within each writing system.

For German: The spelling results of frequent nominalizations were significantly lower than the spelling of pseudowords. In German, nominalization seems to be extremely difficult for pupils even more than pseudowords. This could be due to the necessary process of re-categorization of words that are more frequently used in different lexical-semantic categories.

For French: The hypothesized sequence of difficulty (noun > verb > adjective before noun > adjective after noun) only confirms for frequent words. Performance on pseudowords show that pupils use the <-s> marker more frequently than the <-ent> plural marker.

Tasks

Children were asked to fill in words within preprinted sentences containing gaps. The words contained target spellings. The dictations (German/French) were presented via audio CD recorded by two different female native speakers.

German dictation (n=313) ØØ 64 target spellings (4 per category)  32 filler spellings

French dictation (n=317) ØØ 48 target spellings (6 per category)  23 filler spellings

lexical-semantic characteristics

position concrete abstract nominalization pseudowords

determinant Noun der Maler die Angst das Rot das Druchen

determinant adjective Noun der alte Hund die tolle Idee das laute Singen das leichte Frand

no determinant adjective Noun bunte Vögel gute Nachrichten lautes Sprechen schöne Spobeln

no determinant Noun Milch Sorgen Pfeifen Frog

frequent pseudword

frequency

Test Design: French

Overall 337 grade 5 children (mean age = 12 yrs) enrolled in Luxembourgish schools participated (about 50% female). Testing was divided over 2 counterbalanced sessions (German, French).

word category

frequency noun verb adjective

frequent les trains les parents racontent les pauvres chiens les avions bleus

pseudoword les fadures les enfants prassent les dabes téléphones les jouets tavres

before noun after noun position

Ø  effect of position (F3,310= 218.44, p = 0001)

Ø  effect of lexical-semantic category (F3,310= 538.76, p =

0001)

Ø  interaction position * category (F9,304= 96.68, p = 0001)

Ø  Interpretation

Ø  determinant Noun > determinant adjective Noun

> no determinant adjective Noun > no determinant Noun

Ø  concrete > abstract > pseudowords >

nominalization

Ø  effect of position is different depending on

lexical-semantic category: e.g. for the no determinant Noun position performance is lowest esp. for abstract nouns; whereas performance for concrete nouns remains relatively stable across positions

Ø  effect of frequency (F1,316= 418.65, p = 0001)

Ø  effect of word category (F3,314= 143.54, p = .0001)

Ø  interaction frequency * category (F3,314= 107.99, p = .

0001)

Interpretation

Ø  frequent words > pseudowords

Ø  noun > verb > adjective before noun > adjective

after noun

Ø  effect of frequency different of word categories:

larger for verbs and nouns, than for adjectives for which general performance drops however 87.94 86.37 83.15 85.62 73.00 64.06 67.09 28.91 47.28 28.44 23.08 23.56 48.96 43.69 40.42 45.77 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

determinant Noun determinant adjective

Noun no determinant adjective Noun no determinant Noun

% c o r r e c t

position within nominal phrase lexical-semantic categories Concrete Abstract Nominalization Pseudowords

Results: German

74.45 65.93 59.57 37.01 44.69 28.13 45.27 32.97 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

noun verb adjective before noun adjective after noun

% c or r e c t

word category/position of the adjective frequency

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