Dysgraphia in the language of two children of the Ensoko primary school in Nyamira county
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Date
2013Author
Ondieki, Beatrice G.
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The study sought to identify and analyze the spelling impairment in the Kiswahili
and English of two dysgraphic children of the Ensoko primary in Nyamira County. The
study had hypothesized that the two dysgraphic children would produce more deletion
errors than the other types of errors. It also hypothesized that the two dsygraphic children
would misspell more verbs than the other word classes .Data were collected through three
types of tasks: dictation, transcription and free composition. The findings of the study
supported the first hypothesis.
It was evident from the findings that the two dsygraphic children produced more
deletion errors in their performance than the other errors of substitution, omission,
insertion, alteration and repetition. With regard to the second hypothesis, the findings
indicated that the two dysgraphic children misspelt more verbs as compared to the other
word classes of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners and
conjunctions. Misspellings of the other word classes were relatively few and in some
cases they were not produced at all.
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A Thesis Submitted In Partial Fulfilment Of The Requirements For The Award Of Degree Of Masters Of Arts In Linguistics, University Of Nairobi.Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Linguistics and Languages