HOTI KOLUKAJ, Mimoza and ADEMI, Lulzim (2026) THE IMPACT OF MULTILINGUALISM ON STUDENTS’ WRITING: ANALYSIS OF ORTHOGRAPHIC, MORPHOLOGICAL, SYNTACTIC, AND LEXICAL ERRORS IN STANDARD ALBANIAN. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “FROM RESEARCH TO APPLICATION”, 18-19 November, 2026.
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Multilingualism represents an important characteristic of contemporary educational environments and poses particular challenges for the development of writing competence in the language of schooling. This study aims to analyze the features of Standard Albanian usage in students’ written work and to identify the types and frequency of errors that occur in a multilingual context. The research was conducted using a descriptive approach with elements of content analysis, with the purpose of identifying and classifying linguistic features that appear in students’ writing within a multilingual setting. The study is based on the analysis of authentic written work from 25 primary school students, purposefully selected to include bilingual and multilingual learners with varying levels of academic achievement. The analyzed material consisted of written assignments, essays and free texts, language exercises, dictations, and Albanian language tests. The main unit of analysis was the sentence, while in specific cases the analysis was extended to the word and text level. The results show that orthographic errors constitute the most frequent category, with an average of 4.40 errors per student (SD = 2.38), followed by morphological errors (M = 2.28; SD = 1.02) and syntactic errors (M = 1.96; SD = 0.84). Direct influence from other languages was more limited (M = 0.84; SD = 0.62), while dialectal forms appeared with an average of 1.60 instances (SD = 0.82). The total number of errors ranged from 5 to 23, with a mean of 11.08 (SD = 4.97). The findings suggest that the development of competence in Standard Albanian requires pedagogical interventions particularly oriented toward orthography, grammatical structure, and the functional use of the standard, while simultaneously taking into account students’ linguistic repertoires and the multilingual context.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email zshi@unite.edu.mk |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2026 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2026 10:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.unite.edu.mk/id/eprint/2704 |
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