Aquisição da escrita: as vogais médias altas e sua relação com fenômenos de produção oral

Abstract

The process of teaching/learning of orthography is complex and it involves, besides aspects related to phonetics and to phonology, also those related to the orthographic system. To recognize the existing differences between the types of errors found on texts of beginner students is the necessary to provide conditions for the teacher to, in fact, aid students to overcome their spelling mistakes. Orality performs great influence on the writing production of children, therefore, the child takes as reference – to determine which letter must be used – those sounds that she/he is able to identify in her/his pronunciation standards, proceeding, hence, many times, to a correspondence: spoken sound/letter which is used for writing. This work addresses the analysis of the acquisition in the written form of the high-mid vowels “e” and “o”, on unstressed position. It was sought, thus, to establish relations between the spelling mistakes and contexts, in which, in orality, are identified as processes as raising, harmony and reduction of the final postonic position. On the first stage (analysis of the writing), there will be analyzed the written and oral productions of children from 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th years of a public school in the city of Pelotas from a preexisting database, called PICMEL that belongs to the Emergency Oral Language Laboratory – UFPel. The second stage (frequency analysis) counts with an instrument developed by the researcher in collaboration with the academy advisors and the data compiled by the researcher, with students from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years, also in a public school from Pelotas. With the following specific objectives: a) to analyze the relation between the written and oral productions, in what concerns to the occurrence of the processes of rising, harmony and reduction; b) to analyze the evolution of the students in relation to the spelling mistakes throughout the grades; c) to verify the role of frequency of tokens on the errors made and d) to contribute to a better understanding of the processes of learning of writing of the high-mid vowels in Portuguese. According to Adamoli (2013), Amaral (2013) and Miranda (2009), (2013) e (2014), among others, in a two-way process, not only the phonetic-phonological aspects might interfere on the acquisition of the writing as well on the acquisition of the writing might trigger a reconstruction of the phonological system. Therefore, it was possible to notice that the children transfer to the writing some of their speech characteristics. Nevertheless, with the development of the processes in formal education, the child grasp the differences that exist between speech and writing, however in less frequent words on their daily use, whether in speech or in writing, this process is slower.