<b>Study of concepts and procedures of syntactic analysis used by primary school students</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v26i1.1561

Abstract

This study investigated concepts and identification procedures of compound and hidden subjects used by primary school students. The data were collected through a syntactic analysis test and individual interview in a sample of 24 students (2^nd, 4^th, 6^th and 8^th grades). Results showed low students performance in the identification of one of the subject types. Students from the 2^nd and the 4^th grades were better in their identification of the hidden subject; whereas the students from the 4^th, 6^th and 8^th grades had a better performance in the identification of the compound subject. The concepts of subjects has two characteristics: a formal answer which the students learned in the classroom (6^th grade) and an intuition answer from other nominal, non-agent, parameter, as subject (8^th grade)