Çocukların Yazınsal Metinlerde Kullanılan Sözcelerdeki Göndergeleri Kavrama Edinci

• Main Authors: Nalan Kızıltan, Taner Tunç, Eda Özçelik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BÜTEK Boğaziçi Eğitim Turizm Teknopark Uygulama ve Dan. Hiz. San. Tic. A.Ş. 2008-07-01
• Series: Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
• Subjects: reference; types of referents; text linguistics; semiotics; literature for children; language acquisition; comprehension competence
• Online Access: http://dad.boun.edu.tr/download/article-file/224708
• ISSN: 1300-8552; 2587-0939

This study discusses children’s comprehension competence of the referents in the utterances in Turkish literary texts. Therefore, 52 eight graders from middle classes have been given two stories from where 225 referents have been taken from the dialogues in order to test the children’s comprehension competence of the referents and the data have been analyzed by t-tests and ratio tests. The fi ndings indicate that the children cannot be said to have comprehended the referents well. In terms of the types of the referents, the children seem to have understood anaphoric and cataphoric referents better than exophoric referents The fi ndings also show that the female children have understood functional referents better than the male children. Therefore, authors who write for children should give importance to the use of referents so as to help the comprehension competence of children.