A verbális mondatemlékezet sajátosságai középiskolás korban

Abstract

The aim of present research is to analyse the verbal memory of teenagers on the basis of their sentence repetition task. We try to answer the question whether the age and the school type how can characterize their sentence repetition.
 Our hypothesis was, that the age and the school type can influance on their sentence repetition but the influance of the school type is stronger than the age factor. We also thought that the structure of the sentences and the number of the syllables of the words whic construct the sentences can influance the punctuality of their sentence repetition results.
 In order to discuss the hypothesis the series of experiment was carried out with the participation of teenagers (16 and 18 years, from the secondary grammar and secondary technical school). The test material consisted of 20 sentences, the students task was to repeat them after they had heard them. The analysis was in terms of punctuality, and we also analysed the length and the grammatical structure of the sentences in tems of the punctuality, furthermore the unfilled pauses occurring during the repetiton task and the time of the pauses, even the the types of errors in the incorrect sentences. The statistical anlysis was also done.
 The results showed that the elder students reached better achievement especielly those who are studying in the grammar school The repetition of shorter sentences was also better. The analysis of mistakes showed different results in terms of the school type and proved the memory capacity problems of the students studying in different school type.