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Bae, Hee Sook. 2015. Orthographic, Morphological, and Syntactic Development of School Age Children Depending on Sentence Completion Writing. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-3, 403-421. The purpose of this study is to investigate the aspects of orthographic, morphological, and syntactic development of school age children depending on SCT(sentence completion test) by writing. In this study, 70 children(36 boys and 34 girls) of an elementary school in Seoul were participated. The averages of their age for 2nd, 4th, and 6th grade were respectively 94 months, 119 months, and 118.2 months. Classifying the writing skills first in three categories(orthographic, morphological, and syntactic skills) and then in nine sub-categories(spacing, spelling, grammatical morphemes, clause density, and 4 embedded clause frequency), we analyzed the writing test results of the participants. As the results, we found that the orthographic and the morphological error rate decrease and the frequency of embedded clause increases according to the grade from second to sixth. The difference of orthographic and morphological error rate was most significant(p<0.001) between fourth and sixth grades. The difference of the frequency of four embedded clause types was most significant(p<0.001), especially adverbial clause, and remarkable between second and fourth grades. These results suggest that, in the completed writing, the syntactical ability such as embedded clause use are stabilized earlier than the grammatical skills such as word spacing and spelling rules. Furthermore, the adverbial clause can be an index predicting the syntactic development of school age children. (Woosong University)