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Abstract

Based on Emilia Ferreiro and Alexander Luria's psychogenetic theories, this article discusses children's acquirement of the written language as a scientific aspect of a wider process of language acquirement. Lurie, a soviet psychologist, brings to the linguistics and pedagogy world one of the most accepted standpoints on children's acquirement of the written language. Emilia Ferreiro, argentinean researcher, has constructed her children's writing theory from her extraordinary interpretation of Jean Piaget's studies on the construction of children's mind, primarily focusing on the education reality in Latin America.