Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.46.1.6
Application of the Standard School Script in Primary Education
Martina Kolar Billege
orcid.org/0000-0002-4013-9141
; Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Valentina Vidović
; Osnovna škola „Luka”
Abstract
Teaching initial reading and writing in the Croatian language is based on the transfer of the spoken language modality into the written one with the precondition of the development of phonological awareness. Initial writing is taught using the standard school script, standardized by the Croatian Orthographic Manual of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (2013) and compulsory in every methodical template for teaching in primary education since 2014. The aim of this paper is to test the extent of aberration of fourth-grade primary school students in the Republic of Croatia (N = 354) from the standard letter formation in forming each particular letter and its connection, as well as to examine whether the students’ texts exhibit impaired letter legibility. Statistically significant differences have been determined regarding the students’ gender and teachers’ service years. The results have revealed that boys show a statistically more significant aberration in forming some of the letters, as well as in their connecting. Students of the teachers with more service years have mostly shown less aberration from the standard letter formation than students of the teachers with less service years. The letter legibility in students’ texts is for a larger percentage unimpaired.
Keywords
teaching initial reading and writing; standard school script; letter connection; legibility
Hrčak ID:
243187
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Publication date:
2.9.2020.
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