A relevância da consciência metalingüística na ortografia de palavras morfologicamente complexas na língua portuguesa

Abstract

Studying reading and writing comprehension is important both to promote additional means that facilitate this process and to provide new resources in order to cope with the difficulties in learning. Recent studies have investigated the role of metalinguistic abilities in reading and writing comprehension. Among the abilities within the metalinguistic awareness are the phonologic and morphologic awareness. The phonologic awareness can be defined as the ability to reflect upon the sounds that compose speech, while the morphologic awareness is the ability to reflect upon the morphemes that compose words and attribute meaning to them. Research in this area indicates that both abilities contribute to the acquisition and development of reading and writing. The current study has two goals: verify if the writing of different types of words is associated with different metalinguistic abilities; verify if there is a development in writing strategies. To this, it was carried out a research involving 132 regularly enrolled children in three public schools of Juiz de Fora between second and forth year. The tasks undertaken evaluated the phonologic and morphologic awareness, orthographic coding ability, writing ability and verbal memory. It was possible to see that writing is associated with both the phonologic awareness ability as well as, to a lesser degree, the morphologic awareness ability. Furthermore, it can be seen that with the advance of schooling, children acquire diffrent orthographic rules that compose the portuguese language.