Dificuldades no uso adequado de vocabulário em textos escolares escritos

Abstract

Textual production requires, among another items, a vocabulary selection which is adequate to the explored subject, to the typology of the text, and to its degree of formality. For the proficient writer, this may not cause any difficulty. However to the learner it might become a great problem, mainly because of the treatment that is usually given to the text on Portuguese classes of basic teaching. Ignoring the psychosociolinguistic nature of the text interferes in the student learning. In this way, the student begins to write based on oral language patterns (which belongs to the students background). The problems in the diversified uses of lexical units seem to reveal a non-construction of cognitive patterns related to textual forms and linguistic uses, associated to the non-use of learning strategies, helping the progress of the receptive vocabulary to the productive vocabulary.