A study on the rewriting patterns of elementary school students

Objectives This study aims to obtain educational implications by examining the rewriting patterns of elementary school students and analyzing the differences between lower, middle, and upper grades. Methods According to pragmatic semiotics, the interpreter of signs constitutes an immediate, dynamic and final interpretive body. In the writing situation, the writer is both a producer and an interpreter of signs, so he must be able to actively construct such interpretations. Each interpretive body can be specified as a text representation, a reader representation, and a discourse community representation. The cognitive strategies constituting each representation can be explained by the suitability theory, which is a model of pragmatic reasoning. Results First, the number of word-level and sentence-level modifications nearly doubled from 2nd to 4th grade and then decreased in 6th grade. Second, syntactic and semantic modification cases were found much more frequently in 4th and 6th grades than in 2nd grade, were the most numerous in 4th grade, and two types of modification were found in 4th and 6th grades that were not found in 2nd grade. Third, 4th and 6th grades made much more pragmatic modifications than 2nd grade, and the number of cases found in 4th and 6th grades was similar, and two types of modification were found in 4th grade and three in 6th grade that were not found in 2nd grade. Conclusions It was confirmed that second-grade students could make revisions that took into account rhetorical elements when translation and revision were separated and perspectives on revision were presented. In addition, fourth-grade and sixth-grade students can be seen as being in the developmental stage of using the knowledge transformation strategy. Finally, sixth-grade students made fewer revisions and less syntactic and semantic revisions than fourth-grade students, but the amount of pragmatic revisions was slightly higher, and a relatively complex revision pattern was found.