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Text deviations in reading by Russian heritage speakers 'arion Erause[ Xelli šavenkovaww[ @atjana Eurbangulovaw[ Xataliya Xesterovaw Zntroduction Zn recent pupils’ performance studies )7Zš5[ 7Z8zš.Zöz+q reading skills turned out to be a sine qua non condition for educational success as well as a stumbling block for many children and adolescents [–]] >n this background[ the acquisition of literacy by young people with migration background[ practicing a heritage language within their families[ is being paid more attention in recent scientific work] >ne of questions waiting for an answer concerns the benefit of becoming literate in at least two languages the language of the social environment[ mostly being the language of schooling[ and the heritage language[ as well] @here seems to be some evidence that advanced reading and writing skills in both languages do have a positive impact on general linguistic performance and on educational success [2C ;]] 4ut to what extent heritage speakers are able to read in their heritage language% 5s far as the category of heritage speakers seems to be a rather sociolinguistic one we expect to be faced with a great amount of heterogeneity in linguistic competence] @he aim of our research is to determine how young people with 8ussian heritage language in öermany cope with the task to read aloud in 8ussian] What deviations from the text origin do they show% Which linguistic levels do attract errors% Whereas most studies on reading pay attention on the understanding of the text we aim to work on a more linguistic surface level] Vypothesis 'aterial G 'ethods 8esults :onclusion 5cknowledgements We thank the zi'5 Xetwork for funding data gathering[ processing and analysis within the zi7š 7roject] @he mean reading rate measured by words per second )Dig] 2q increases with age] @hat means[ that the development of reading skills in 8ussian seems to be forced in the families )see also Dig] –q] @aking into account that we deal with an apparent1time study this result may be explained by different factors lying in the background of the subsamples] Dig] ; displays the mean error rates defined as the averaged proportion of errors on text tokens] 5s we assumed[ with growing age 1 and reading ability 1 error rates show declension] 7honetic errors constitute the most frequent error type for all groups followed by lexical and morphosyntactic deviations )Dig] ;q] 5ll errors within an age group assumed to be –OO /[ we see that the share of phonetic errors is shrinking from x till –B whereas the amount of lexical errors is growing rapidly from x till –– years )@able –q] 5 slight increase can also be stated for morphosyntactic deviations] Within phonetic errors[ segmental errors are the most frequent in all age groups[ showing a tendency to rise )Dig] Bq] @he analysis of lexical errors discovers that readers on all age levels substitute tokens with existing 8ussian words relying on graphematic.phonematic as well as semantic similarities[ often on both] 5n interesting parameter reflecting metalinguistic ability is illustrated in Dig] 3& @he younger the reader[ the higher the amount of uncorrected items and the relative share of them[ and vice versa] 8eferences –]öogolin[ Z] 2OOx] :hancen und 8isiken nach 7Zš5 – über 4ildungsbeteiligung von 'igrantenkindern und 8eformvorschläge] Zn& 5uernheimer[ ö] )Vg]q& šchieflage im 4ildungssystem] üie 4enachteiligung der 'igrantenkinder] 2] 5ufl] Wiesbaden[ ;;1BO] 2] ööbel[ E]C 8auch[ ü]C Vieluf[ š] 2O––] zeistungsbedingungen und zeistungsergebnisse von šchülerinnen und šchülern türkischer[ russischer und polnischer Verkunftssprachen] Zn& Zeitschrift für Znterkulturellen Dremdsprachenunterricht –x& 2[ BO1xB] ;]4öhmer[ J] 2O–2] 4iliteralität] äine študie zu literaten štrukturen von Jugendlichen im üeutschen und 8ussischen] Vamburg] +nveröff] üissertation] 3] šapunova[ ä] ']C :han[ X] 5] 2O–;] Čtenie kak vid rečevoj dejatelUnosti i tip ustnogo spontannogo monologa] Zn& 4ogdanova14eglarjan[ X] V] )ed]q Zvukovoj korpus kak material dlja analiza russkoj reči] ČastU –] šankt17etersburg[ –BO12–;] @he recording procedure took place at the childrensU home] üigital recording was performed )33[– kVz. –x bitq using a headset] @ranscription and error type marking was made by äX'58azü5] 5n error type classification was applied distinguishing between phonetic )segmental and stressq[ morphosyntactic[ and lexical errors [3]] Dull or partial substitutions of words which did not lead to any distortion of the morphosyntactic structure were considered to be lexical errors] @he changing of grammatical forms and of the word order were regarded as morphosyntactic errors] wwüata 7rocessing wüata öathering –] Reading rate and error rate correlate& @he faster the reading rate )tokens per secondq is[ the less is the error rate )errors.tokensq] 4oth are considered as indicators of general reading ability] 2] @he better persons read the more they show self1monitoring effects resulting in self-corrections of erroneous reading] @he proportion of corrected and uncorrected errors serves as an indicator of metalinguistic ability] ;] 5gainst the background of oral speech data[ the following frequency range of error types is expected& phonetic errors 0 morphosyntactic errors 0 lexical errors] 3] üue to the difficult nature of word stress in 8ussian[ we expect a great amount of stress placement errors within phonetic errors] –] Within our sample[ we observe a correlation between reading ability and age of the test persons which confirms hypothesis one& @he reading ability growths with age] @his tendency is manifested by the portion of reading persons per age group as well as by the mean reading and error rates] 2] Zn line with this result should be seen the relatively high amount of uncorrected errors produced by young readers[ and their absolute and relative reduction with age] @his phenomenon indicates on the development of metalinguistic competence] ;] Zn all age groups[ phonetic errors are the most frequent ones[ followed by errors in lexis and morphosyntax. @he growing share of lexical errors on the general error rate of ––1 and –B1year1olds[ as well as the declension of phonetic errors can be interpreted as an indirect sign of growing linguistic competence] 3] Stress placement errors turned out to be seldom 1 in contrary to data from z2.z; learners of 8ussian] @able –& üistribution of error types )in /q 7honetic 'orphosyntactic zexical @otal x years ?– –O –H –OO –– years 3x –B ;H –OO –B years 3– –H 3O –OO 5ll ages 3W –? ;B –OO Digure –& 8eading skills by age groups Digure 2& 'ean reading rates )tokens.secondq and standard deviation )š@üq Digure ;& 'ean error rates )errors.tokensq Digure B& 7ercentage of segmental and stress placement errors within phonetic errors We recorded Bx heritage speakers of 8ussian living in Vamburg )–W x1years old childrenC 2O ––1year1old children and –W test persons )t]p]q[ aged –Bq] @he test persons had to manage different tasks] >ne of them was to read aloud a short story written for children by the 8ussian autor '] Zoščenko] @he text consists of –?2 tokens] >nly ;3 )x– /q of the t]p] sample participated in the reading test] ;O of them dealt with it successfully[ reading at least ?O / of the words] Dig] – shows the distribution of reading abilities in the sample] @he ability to read is growing from the subsample of x1year1 olds with an unsurprisingly low number of readers )–? /q over the ––1year1 olds )xO /q till the –B1year1olds )W; 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