Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Vrste reči u spontanom govoru dece predškolskog uzrasta

2024; Volume: 37; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5937/inovacije2404085s

2335-0806

Jelena Spasić,

Digital Communication and Language

The topic of the research is the spontaneous speech of the children of preschool age, aged three to seven years. The corpus consists of a total of 400 children's statements, one hundred each from the children of ages 3.0-3.11, 4.0-4.11, 5.0-5.11 and 6.0-6.11. The statements were collected using the technique of anecdotal notes in kindergartens in Jagodina. In the analysis, the lists of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, numbers, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, exclamations, and words that appear in children's speech were extracted. The research provides a significant insight into the speech development of the children aged three to seven and indicates the aspects of speech development that should be given more attention. Speech is acquired through imitation, so the teacher should use the carefully selected vocabulary in his/her speech, taking care that the statement is understandable to the children, but that the children have opportunities every day to hear a new word from the teacher. Our study showed that certain word classes are absent in children's spontaneous speech. The use of adjectives, adverbs, exclamations, and particles should be encouraged in preschool children's speech.