Euskararen ikaskuntza H1 eta H2 gisa 5 eta 8 urte bitartean

Abstract

This article analyses the development of basque in 5 to 8 year old students who have learned this language in different sociolinguistic contexts. one group is composed of stu- dents who have basque as their first language and who have attended school in basque, whilst the first language of the other group is Spanish but the schooling has been in basque in an early and total immersion programme. our study is based on the analysis of oral narratives produced by these two groups. the task given to the students was the reproduction of an original tale told initially by an adult. Several textual and discourse skills were analyzed: the narrative autonomy or the ability to take charge from beginning to end of the story-telling activity, the organization of the thematic context of the story, the verbal cohesion and mechanisms of assumption of enunciative responsibility. The results demonstrate similar skills in both groups. the differences found were not always favorable to the l1 group. In general, the l2 group students tended to reproduce the adult model more accurately, whilst the l1 group students seemed to have taken greater liberty with respect to the model. As an overall conclusion of this work, the relevance of analyzing child language from a textual-discursive point of view should be mentioned.