| Title: | Slovenian EFL-students' familiarity with the English sentence structure and their ability to identify its element : master's thesis |
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| Authors: | ID Dukarič, Jan (Author)
ID Jurančič, Klementina Penelope (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  MAG_Dukaric_Jan_2025.pdf (5,12 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Master's thesis/paper |
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| Typology: | 2.09 - Master's Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | This master’s thesis explores the expanding discrepancy and subsequent outcomes between prevailing pedagogical approaches and the realities of conventional assessment practices, where a fundamental understanding of a syntactic organisation is a prerequisite for engagement. Thus, the thesis aims to examine Slovene EFL primary school students’ familiarity with the English sentence structure and its elements guided by the assumptions addressing the syntactic influence of students’ L1, their limited syntactic competence, and their explicit awareness of English sentence structure and its constituent parts. Adopting a mixed methods research design and grounded in a comprehensive theoretical framework, the empirical study involved of 75 participants aged between 11 and 14 years (±1 year), which were in turn tasked with completing a grammar awareness task, language function task, word order task, and a sentence structure in translation task. The findings ultimately indicate students’ shortcomings in the identification of core sentence elements, the emergence of explicit syntactic knowledge, and a salient reliance on Slovene syntactic frameworks. |
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| Keywords: | English as a Foreign Language, metalinguistic awareness, cross-linguistic influence, syntactic competence, English sentence structure |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Place of performance: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | J. Dukarič |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF (XIII, 90 str.)) |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-94144 |
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| UDC: | 811.111'367(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 249486851 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 18.09.2025 |
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| Views: | 142 |
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| Categories: | FF
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