The present study investigates which of two vocabulary learning methods best promotes long-term retention of the meaning and spelling of words. The first method is rote learning, i.e. learning by word lists, which requires pupils to memorize the meaning of new words by L1 translation. The second method is learning by sentence writing, which requires pupils to memorize new words by making up their own sentences in order to establish links between old and new knowledge.   16 pupils took part in the experiment; all were approximately 11 years old. The participants were randomly assigned to two groups. All the participants were given one receptive and one productive recall test, both in the immediate and delayed post-tests. The result demonstrates that pupils who learn words using word lists only remember words in the short-term retention, while the sentence writing method results in greater long-term retention.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-09-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:10:44Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gazana_ac_me_rcla.pdf: 539733 bytes, checksum: b3031a504923fa95da7ff9e0556e6be3 (MD5) / A formação de professores, em especial, de professores alfabetizadores, é uma das alternativas, frequentemente apontada, para a solução dos fracassos escolares. Como a alfabetização constitui ponto crítico na problemática do ensino no país, a formação de professores tem recebido críticas, muitas delas feitas pelos próprios alfabetizadores, por acentuar os aspectos teóricos, deixando a prática pedagógica em segundo plano. Para superar os problemas de ensino e conseguir alfabetizar a população do país, muitas inovações têm sido instituídas no sistema escolar, sem que se tenha obtido os resultados previstos. Este é o caso da indicação do construtivismo para orientar o ensino nas escolas públicas. Estudos e pesquisas têm indicado o papel que os professores exercem na aplicação das propostas de inovação pedagógica, o que coloca a questão das relações que se estabelecem entre as teorias e as práticas. Nesse contexto, a interação dos professores com as propostas de inovação assume particular importância. Considerando o exposto, é objetivo dessa pesquisa averiguar como os professores alfabetizadores interagem com as idéias construtivistas em situações de estudos que privilegiem a inserção dos problemas da prática pedagógica em referenciais teóricos, buscando indícios de mudanças em seus discursos e no relato de suas práticas pedagógicas. Participam dessa investigação dezesseis professoras de escolas públicas do interior do Estado de São Paulo que lecionam nas quatro séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. São comparadas as respostas dadas por essas professoras a um questionário e as propostas de trabalho que elaboram, antes e após sua participação em sessões de estudo. No decorrer dessas sessões registros foram feitos em um diário de campo sobre as falas e atitudes das participantes em relação às situações vivenciadas nos encontros. Com os dados assim obtidos, busca-se identificar . / Teachers' academic background - especially the ones who teach how to write and read – is one of the alternatives frequently pointed out as a solution for the school failures. As literate ability constitutes a crucial point in the matter of the public education in the country, due to accentuating theoretical aspects leaving the pedagogical practice in second place. In order to overcome teaching problems as well as getting the population of the country to be literate, many innovations have been instituted in the educational system without achieving the results predicted. This is the case of indicating the constructivism to orientate teaching in public schools. Studies and researches have shown the role that teachers perform in the application of the pedagogical innovations proposed, what sets up the relation between the theory and the practices. In this context, the teachers' interaction with the proposals of innovation takes a peculiar importance. Considering the opposite, the objective of this research is checking out how primary school teachers interact with the constructivist ideas in study situations that gives privilege to problems from the pedagogical practice in theoretical references. Participating of this investigation there are sixteen teachers from public schools in the country of São Paulo State, who teach the first four grades of the primary school. The answers given by the teachers are compared to a questionnaire as well as the work proposals they elaborate before and after the study sections. During these sections, registers were made in a journal about the participants' speech and attitudes regarding the situations experienced in the meetings. With the data this way collected, it's aimed to identify the interactions between the teachers' manifestations, speech and pedagogical practice that establish the constructivist proposal. The results point different ways of interaction that can be attributed to different factors. Among ..

Orientador: Maria Cecília de Oliveira Micotti / Banca: Emilia Freitas de Lima / Banca: Cesar Donizeti Pereira Leite / Resumo: A formação de professores, em especial, de professores alfabetizadores, é uma das alternativas, frequentemente apontada, para a solução dos fracassos escolares. Como a alfabetização constitui ponto crítico na problemática do ensino no país, a formação de professores tem recebido críticas, muitas delas feitas pelos próprios alfabetizadores, por acentuar os aspectos teóricos, deixando a prática pedagógica em segundo plano. Para superar os problemas de ensino e conseguir alfabetizar a população do país, muitas inovações têm sido instituídas no sistema escolar, sem que se tenha obtido os resultados previstos. Este é o caso da indicação do construtivismo para orientar o ensino nas escolas públicas. Estudos e pesquisas têm indicado o papel que os professores exercem na aplicação das propostas de inovação pedagógica, o que coloca a questão das relações que se estabelecem entre as teorias e as práticas. Nesse contexto, a interação dos professores com as propostas de inovação assume particular importância. Considerando o exposto, é objetivo dessa pesquisa averiguar como os professores alfabetizadores interagem com as idéias construtivistas em situações de estudos que privilegiem a inserção dos problemas da prática pedagógica em referenciais teóricos, buscando indícios de mudanças em seus discursos e no relato de suas práticas pedagógicas. Participam dessa investigação dezesseis professoras de escolas públicas do interior do Estado de São Paulo que lecionam nas quatro séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. São comparadas as respostas dadas por essas professoras a um questionário e as propostas de trabalho que elaboram, antes e após sua participação em sessões de estudo. No decorrer dessas sessões registros foram feitos em um diário de campo sobre as falas e atitudes das participantes em relação às situações vivenciadas nos encontros. Com os dados assim obtidos, busca-se identificar . / Abstract: Teachers' academic background - especially the ones who teach how to write and read - is one of the alternatives frequently pointed out as a solution for the school failures. As literate ability constitutes a crucial point in the matter of the public education in the country, due to accentuating theoretical aspects leaving the pedagogical practice in second place. In order to overcome teaching problems as well as getting the population of the country to be literate, many innovations have been instituted in the educational system without achieving the results predicted. This is the case of indicating the constructivism to orientate teaching in public schools. Studies and researches have shown the role that teachers perform in the application of the pedagogical innovations proposed, what sets up the relation between the theory and the practices. In this context, the teachers' interaction with the proposals of innovation takes a peculiar importance. Considering the opposite, the objective of this research is checking out how primary school teachers interact with the constructivist ideas in study situations that gives privilege to problems from the pedagogical practice in theoretical references. Participating of this investigation there are sixteen teachers from public schools in the country of São Paulo State, who teach the first four grades of the primary school. The answers given by the teachers are compared to a questionnaire as well as the work proposals they elaborate before and after the study sections. During these sections, registers were made in a journal about the participants' speech and attitudes regarding the situations experienced in the meetings. With the data this way collected, it's aimed to identify the interactions between the teachers' manifestations, speech and pedagogical practice that establish the constructivist proposal. The results point different ways of interaction that can be attributed to different factors. Among .. / Mestre

Drawing on literature about place-based education and service-learning, as well as three groups* perspectives about their service-learning experiences, this research describes how place (understood simultaneously as a material agent, a setting for human activity, and a factor in an individual*s situatedness) and identity (understood in terms of one*s social position) are socially- constructed concepts that impact students* writing and learning experiences. More specifically, this project presents place-based education as a teaching method that can focus and reinvigorate service-learning in a writing course. Including place-based content and service-learning projects in a writing course requires careful design and reflection. However, course design should not be an activity limited to just teachers. In alignment with feminist research methods and standpoint theory, this research values and privileges the perspectives of stakeholders who are not normally included in the course design process: students and community partners. To present a rich account of these stakeholders* experiences designing, implementing, and participating in a place-based service- learning project, a combination of qualitative data methods (interviews, classroom observations, and textual analyses) is used. This information serves as the basis for the design of a place-based writing course with a local service-learning component. The proposed course asks students to work with community partners to identify a place-based need that can be addressed—at least in part—by writing-related service. By collaborating with community partners, creating writing products that address community needs, and reflecting on how their identities and learning experiences have been impacted by the places they*ve worked and the communities they*ve worked with, students can apply their knowledge in meaningful contexts, write for real audiences, and develop more thorough understandings of the places where they study, work, and live.

One of the main ways in which children learn skills, such as reading and writing, and develop creativity and sociability, is through play. Researchers are thus exploring gamification, namely the use of typical game elements in different and non-gaming contexts, including the educational one. Gamification is a methodology that originates from computer and serious games, and aims at redesigning activities to be more engaging, thus also developing intrinsic motivation. Furthermore, gamification has proven effective both with typically developing children and with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Given that the current situation firmly indicates the need to engage and captivate learners, the present research aims to investigate whether gamification can improve motivation and reading and writing skills, in 8-to-10-years-old children. The design consists in comparing the effects of gamified Applications to that of equivalent, traditional pen-and-paper activities, in mixed and non-specific school groups. Furthermore, the effects are compared to those of an individualised clinical treatment for children with Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) — Developmental Dyslexia and Dysorthography in particular — using the same gamified Applications. In fact, although the neurocognitive causes of Developmental Dyslexia and Dysorthography are still hotly debated, researchers agree that the main challenge consists in the intervention, that is how to improve children’s reading and writing fluency and accuracy while keeping motivation high. Consequently, the research consisted of two studies. In the first study (Study A), a 12-hour gamified training at school was compared with an equivalent pen-and-paper training, both aimed at exploring the efficacy of gamified Applications and traditional activities purposefully designed to enhance linguistic skills (i.e., reading accuracy, reading speed, and writing accuracy). The results of this study showed significant improvements in linguistic fluency and correctness for both groups, with non-significantly greater effect of the experimental gamified training. Students belonging to the experimental groups also reported greater appreciation of the activities, although motivation did not act as a mediator for performance improvements in any of the groups considered. The second study (Study B) aimed to explore whether improvements, after the use of gamified Applications, differ among children with neurotypical development, children with SLD, children with unspecified Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and bilingual children. Assessments upon training completion indicated greater improvements, even if not in a significant way, in reading and writing correctness in children with SLD, suggesting that an individualised and personalised training, designed on specific difficulties, can lead to major results. Also, participants in Study B reported to have highest degree fun during the activities, but motivation did not act as a mediator for improvements in performance either. Gameful experience of the participants in both studies was also investigated through a questionnaire, the responses of which were related to improvements in learning performance. Results were not significant, but interestingly the aspects that were positively associated with learning outcomes were those related to competition and social experience dimensions, although they were the least present within the Applications used. Overall findings highlighted promising effects of the training programs on children’s linguistic skills and grade of engagement, emphasising the importance of integrated training and opening to future studies investigating the effects of gamified Applications on other skills and motivational aspects.

Second language (L2) decoding – the sub-lexical process of mapping the graphemes of an alphabetic writing system onto the phonemes they represent – is argued to underpin various aspects of L2 learning, particularly vocabulary acquisition. Recently, second language acquisition research has shown increased interest in decoding, consistently finding evidence for L1-to-L2 transfer effects on learners’ processing mechanisms and outcomes. Correspondingly, studies conducted in Modern Foreign Language (MFL) classrooms in English secondary schools – an under-researched context – have found that beginner learners of French tend to (a) pronounce L2 words according to English decoding conventions and (b) make poor progress in this aspect of L2 learning. Recent official guidance for MFL teachers has addressed this problem by advocating an explicit focus on decoding, but there is a lack of convincing evidence (both in the MFL context and more widely) that explicit L2 decoding instruction can be effective. The current study therefore trialled two programmes of French decoding instruction for beginner MFL learners, delivered in ten- to fifteen-minute segments over around thirty lessons. Three intact secondary school classes followed a phonics-based approach; three classes from another school followed a programme in which learners were encouraged to derive the pronunciations of French graphemes from ‘source words’ in a memorized poem; and six classes in two other schools received no explicit decoding instruction. Participants (N=186) completed pre- and post-tests of French decoding; a sub-sample (N=15) also completed task-based self-report interviews. The two intervention groups made significantly more progress than the comparison group in terms of the number of graphemes pronounced ‘acceptably’, although the magnitude of the difference between the groups was small. Compared to the comparison group, the two intervention groups also appeared to show different and more extensive patterns of change in their realizations of individual graphemes, even where their pronunciations were still not ‘acceptable’. Finally, self-report data generally revealed little change in participants’ strategic reasoning, either in the intervention or comparison group. Together, these findings suggest that explicit instruction can improve beginner learners’ proficiency in decoding L2 French, but that their progress may follow a longer and more complex trajectory than simply moving directly from ‘incorrect’ to ‘correct’ forms. Further research is required to assess the effects (if any) of a given improvement in decoding proficiency on other language-learning outcomes; and to design and evaluate alternative programmes of instruction.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Vencer o desafio de registrar tudo o que se diz utilizando caracteres grÃficos à o ideal da maioria dos jovens e adultos que, por nunca terem estudado, ingressam na escola para aprender a ler e escrever. Para aqueles que ingressaram quando crianÃa na escola e dela saÃram antes de concluir os estudos, o desafio passa a ser, prioritariamente, aprender a escrita convencional, recurso indispensÃvel para sua participaÃÃo efetiva como cidadÃo do mundo letrado. Todavia, o desafio nÃo se limita ao registro apenas. Hà que se escrever ortograficamente. Neste trabalho, analisaram-se textos de 11 alunos oriundos da EducaÃÃo de Jovens e Adultos com o objetivo de analisar os fatores apoio na fala e infreqÃÃncia de leitura como condicionantes de suas dificuldades ortogrÃficas. Buscou-se, tambÃm, descobrir categorias de desvios diferentes das encontradas por diversos autores nos escritos de crianÃas, alÃm de averiguar se os adultos conseguiam verbalizar os conhecimentos adquiridos sobre normas ortogrÃficas. Detectaram-se 744 desvios ortogrÃficos que, apÃs analisados, distribuÃram-se nas categorias letras concorrentes (40.5%), apoio na fala (23.6%), supressÃo de letras (8.1%), troca de consoante surda/sonora (7.1%), junÃÃo inadequada (4.7%), acrÃscimo de letras e uso generalizado (4.3%), segmentaÃÃo imprÃpria (3.2%), inversÃo de letras (0.8%) e outros (3%). Tais categorias sÃo semelhantes Ãs encontradas nos textos infantis e letras concorrentes (40.5%) ocupou o 1 lugar em nÃmero de ocorrÃncias seguida da apoio na fala (23.6%). Dos 11 alunos, 06 (54.5%) conseguiram verbalizar os conhecimentos que possuÃam sobre ortografia e 05 (45%) deles nÃo praticam constantemente a leitura, o que, acredita-se, nÃo favorece um melhor rendimento ortogrÃfico. AlÃm disso, a pesquisa evidenciou que, mesmo alunos que cometem muitos desvios ortogrÃficos, conseguem expressar verbalmente a norma infringida e se autocorrigem. / Winning the challenge of registering everything that is said using graphic characters is the ideal of most youngsters and adults who, never having studied before, go to school in order to be capable of reading and writing. For those who entered at school when they are children and get out before to conclude their studies, the challenge is conventional written, indispensable recourse to their effective participation as citizens of lettered world. Nevertheless, the challenge is not just about the register. It is necessary to write orthographically. In this paper, it was analyzed texts of 11 students come from of Youngsters and Adults Education, whit the objective of analyzing factors of support in oral speech and the infrequency of reading as conditioning of their orthographic difficulties. Also, it was sought to find categories of deflection different of those found by many authors in children written, further to verify if adults succeed in verbalize the knowledgements acquired about orthographic standard. It was detected were distributed in categories: competing letters (40,5%), support in oral speech (23,6%), suppression of letters (8,1%), exchange of consonant voiceless/ voiced (7,1%), unsuited junction (4,7%), addition of letters and generalized use (4,3%), improper segmentation (3,2%), inversion of letters (0,8%) and others (3%). These categories are similar to the ones found in the texts of children and competing letters took the first place in number of occurrence followed by support in oral speech (23,6%). Of 11 students, 06 (54,5%) succeed verbalize knowledgements about orthography and 45% of them do not have constant practice in reading, that is believed, it does not favour a letter orthographic improve. Besides that, the research showed that, even students who make many deflections, succeed in express in a verbal way the infringed standard and correct themselves.

Submitted by Verena Pereira (verenagoncalves@uefs.br) on 2018-07-10T22:17:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTA??O PROFLETRAS KARINE COSTA TOTAL 1.pdf: 12607787 bytes, checksum: 9c1968942dca7abb89a04261c3a49f34 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-10T22:17:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTA??O PROFLETRAS KARINE COSTA TOTAL 1.pdf: 12607787 bytes, checksum: 9c1968942dca7abb89a04261c3a49f34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-14 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Strategies for writing genre opinion piece in school: a methodological proposal is the result of a pedagogical intervention performed in a class of ninth grade of elementary school II of a large public high school in the city of Feira de Santana-Bahia. Research-intervention had a qualitative methodological approach and theoretical framework based on Textual Linguistics. Part of the theoretical framework of base: Antunes(2016, 2009, 2003), Beth Marcuschi (2010),Geraldi (2002, 1997, 1991), Kato (2003), Koch (2016,2002),Marcuschi (2003), Passarelli (2012,2004), PCN (1998), Rodrigues (2000); among others. From a work plan, consisting of additional steps, we develop actions in the classroom, which sought to improve some skills writers of the students. We promote the systematic teaching of a text argumentative, opinion piece, contemplating the underlying writing process steps, which are: planning, writing the first version, revision and rewriting of a text. To this end, we offer 14 thematic workshops focused reading and rereading of texts, the study of linguistic and discursive aspects of the genre, writing and rewriting of an article. The texts were monitored along the search to identify the main difficulties presented by students in relation to the writing of the genre and, also, to evaluate if those difficulties were minimized from the activities developed in class. We, with research, verify that the teaching of writing of a particular genre is most effective when it occurs within an international perspective, contextualized and procedure. In the end, compare the first version of the articles with the rewritten version, whose results showed that after implementation of the activities there was improved performance of students in writing, especially in respect to textual coherence in the title role, in thematic continuity and general sense of the text / Estrat?gias para a escrita do g?nero artigo de opini?o na escola: uma proposta metodol?gica ? resultado de uma interven??o pedag?gica realizada em uma turma de 9? ano do Ensino Fundamental II de uma escola p?blica de grande porte da cidade de Feira de Santana ? Bahia. A pesquisa-interven??o teve uma abordagem metodol?gica qualitativa e referencial te?rico fundamentado na Lingu?stica Textual. Fazem parte do quadro te?rico de base: Antunes (2016, 2009, 2003), Beth Marcuschi (2010), Geraldi (2002, 1997, 1991), Kato (2003) ,Koch (2016,2002), Marcuschi (2003), Passarelli (2012,2004), PCN (1998), Rodrigues (2000); dentre outros. A partir de um plano de trabalho, composto por etapas complementares, desenvolvemos a??es em sala de aula, as quais visaram aprimorar algumas habilidades escritoras dos discentes. Promovemos o ensino sistem?tico de um g?nero textual argumentativo, o artigo de opini?o, contemplando as etapas subjacentes ao processo de escrita, quais sejam: planejamento, escritura da primeira vers?o, revis?o e reescrita de um texto. Para tanto, ofertamos 14 oficinas tem?ticas que tiveram como foco a leitura e a releitura de textos, o estudo dos aspectos lingu?sticos e discursivos do g?nero, a escrita e a reescrita de um artigo. Os textos foram monitorados ao longo da pesquisa para identificarmos as principais dificuldades apresentadas pelos discentes em rela??o ? escritura do g?nero e, tamb?m, para avaliarmos se essas dificuldades foram minimizadas a partir das atividades desenvolvidas em sala. Intentamos, com a pesquisa, verificar se o ensino da escrita de um determinado g?nero ? mais eficaz quando ocorre dentro de uma perspectiva interacional, contextualizada e processual. Ao final, comparamos a primeira vers?o dos artigos com a vers?o reescrita, cujos resultados mostraram que ap?s aplica??o das atividades houve melhor desempenho dos estudantes na escrita, sobretudo no que se referente ? coer?ncia textual na atribui??o de t?tulo, na continuidade tem?tica e de sentido geral do texto

The purpose of my study is to examine why five primary school teachers chose to start using the method ”Learning reading by writing on computer” in their teaching. How do they perceive that the method works in their classroom and do they perceive that the method affect the children’s literacy? The study consists of a qualitative method in form of interviews with five primary school teachers and also some observations made by me in the classrooms. I will use the findings I made during the interviews and observations and contrast these to relevant literature and research that I have collected. The result of my study shows that all of the interviewed teachers had a self-interest in working with the method ”Learning reading by writing on computers” and that they also worked closely with colleagues. The majority of the pupils could talk about their texts and the structure of the language already in grade one and many had learned to read faster than former pupils.

PINHEIRO, Marilene Barbosa. O domínio da ortografia por alunos oriundos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos. 2005. 131 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2005. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-08-22T12:44:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_DIS_MPINHEIRO.pdf: 1075624 bytes, checksum: 3e0f82728f7ae7bce0d0ddd3002bc0bc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-11-14T13:03:21Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_DIS_MPINHEIRO.pdf: 1075624 bytes, checksum: 3e0f82728f7ae7bce0d0ddd3002bc0bc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-14T13:03:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2005_DIS_MPINHEIRO.pdf: 1075624 bytes, checksum: 3e0f82728f7ae7bce0d0ddd3002bc0bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Winning the challenge of registering everything that is said using graphic characters is the ideal of most youngsters and adults who, never having studied before, go to school in order to be capable of reading and writing. For those who entered at school when they are children and get out before to conclude their studies, the challenge is conventional written, indispensable recourse to their effective participation as citizens of lettered world. Nevertheless, the challenge is not just about the register. It is necessary to write orthographically. In this paper, it was analyzed texts of 11 students come from of Youngsters and Adults Education, whit the objective of analyzing factors of support in oral speech and the infrequency of reading as conditioning of their orthographic difficulties. Also, it was sought to find categories of deflection different of those found by many authors in children written, further to verify if adults succeed in verbalize the knowledgements acquired about orthographic standard. It was detected were distributed in categories: competing letters (40,5%), support in oral speech (23,6%), suppression of letters (8,1%), exchange of consonant voiceless/ voiced (7,1%), unsuited junction (4,7%), addition of letters and generalized use (4,3%), improper segmentation (3,2%), inversion of letters (0,8%) and others (3%). These categories are similar to the ones found in the texts of children and competing letters took the first place in number of occurrence followed by support in oral speech (23,6%). Of 11 students, 06 (54,5%) succeed verbalize knowledgements about orthography and 45% of them do not have constant practice in reading, that is believed, it does not favour a letter orthographic improve. Besides that, the research showed that, even students who make many deflections, succeed in express in a verbal way the infringed standard and correct themselves / Vencer o desafio de registrar tudo o que se diz utilizando caracteres gráficos é o ideal da maioria dos jovens e adultos que, por nunca terem estudado, ingressam na escola para aprender a ler e escrever. Para aqueles que ingressaram quando criança na escola e dela saíram antes de concluir os estudos, o desafio passa a ser, prioritariamente, aprender a escrita convencional, recurso indispensável para sua participação efetiva como cidadão do mundo letrado. Todavia, o desafio não se limita ao registro apenas. Há que se escrever ortograficamente. Neste trabalho, analisaram-se textos de 11 alunos oriundos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos com o objetivo de analisar os fatores apoio na fala e infreqüência de leitura como condicionantes de suas dificuldades ortográficas. Buscou-se, também, descobrir categorias de desvios diferentes das encontradas por diversos autores nos escritos de crianças, além de averiguar se os adultos conseguiam verbalizar os conhecimentos adquiridos sobre normas ortográficas. Detectaram-se 744 desvios ortográficos que, após analisados, distribuíram-se nas categorias letras concorrentes (40.5%), apoio na fala (23.6%), supressão de letras (8.1%), troca de consoante surda/sonora (7.1%), junção inadequada (4.7%), acréscimo de letras e uso generalizado (4.3%), segmentação imprópria (3.2%), inversão de letras (0.8%) e outros (3%). Tais categorias são semelhantes às encontradas nos textos infantis e letras concorrentes (40.5%) ocupou o 1° lugar em número de ocorrências seguida da apoio na fala (23.6%). Dos 11 alunos, 06 (54.5%) conseguiram verbalizar os conhecimentos que possuíam sobre ortografia e 05 (45%) deles não praticam constantemente a leitura, o que, acredita-se, não favorece um melhor rendimento ortográfico. Além disso, a pesquisa evidenciou que, mesmo alunos que cometem muitos desvios ortográficos, conseguem expressar verbalmente a norma infringida e se autocorrigem