Um estudo sociolinguístico dos erros na escrita das crianças dos I e II ciclos

Abstract

In this dissertation we investigated children’s difficulties about the learning of writing. To develop this issue, we selected writings of students from the I and II Learning Cycles of a municipal public school located in São Luís, Maranhão. Through the analysis, this qualitative research investigated problems in children’s writing, focusing the interference of the orality and the ignorance of orthography arbitrary conventions, classifying the errors into four categories from the model suggested by Bortoni-Ricardo (2005): 1) errors due to the ignorance of the arbitrary nature of the writing convention system; 2) errors arising from the transposition of oral habits for writing. This latter one is subdivided into: i) errors due to the interference of categorical phonological rules in the dialect we study; ii) errors due to the interference of gradual variable phonological rules; and iii) errors due to the interference of discontinuous phonological rules.