EVALUATION OF CHILDREN'S LINGUISTIC COMPETENCES - DESIDERATUM OF PRE-SCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Abstract

The evaluation of children’s linguistic competences is a desideratum of the teachers from the pre-school and primary education institution, concerned with ensuring the formal, non-formal, informal contexts that lead to the increase of the linguistic education quality.

The purpose of the research. In the problem research of ensuring continuity in the process of training children’s linguistic competences, the purpose of the stage of the pedagogical experiment carried out by us was to evaluate the level of preschool and young children’s linguistic competence, based on a special type of language proficiency - that of the use of the Roumanian noun grammatical forms.

Methodology. In the paper there are specified the evaluation criteria, there are described the research methods: conversation, testing, analysis of children’s activity products, statistical processing of experimental data, generalization, deduction; there are sprecified the instruments applied in the investigation, there are presented the results obtained regarding the level of training the preschoolers and small schoolers’ linguistic competence.

The novelty and originality of the investigation derives from the elaboration and implementation of the evaluation method of preschool and small school children’s linguistic competence.

Conclusions. The processing and interpretation of the experimental data allowed the conclusions to be drawn: the development and implementation of the methods for assessing the level of training the children’s linguistic competence facilitated the identification of the current reality regarding the particularities of contemporary children’s use of noun forms in various expression contexts; with age, the level of children’s linguistic competence increases.