Um estudo acerca dos erros ortográficos de alunos do terceiro e do sexto ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present research, whose theme is the orthographic errors, has as general objective to describe, analyze and compare the orthographic errors produced by students of the third and sixth grade of Elementary School of public schools. The work, which is willing to reflect on the acquisition of orthographic writing, is based on data from two samples: The first data sample consists of dictations made by 42 students of the third grade of elementary school in a public school in the city of Pelotas. The second data sample consists of dictations applied to two sixth grade classes of the Luiz Maria Ferraz State High School - CIEP, in the city of Bagé - RS. The specific objectives are outlined as follows: A) Describe and analyze the orthographic errors of third and sixth-grade, extracted from Balanced Dictation (DB), proposed by Moojen (2009); Verify what types of orthographic errors are most recurrent in the writing of students in the third year and sixth grade of Elementary School; C) compare the results obtained in the analysis of the errors produced by children of the third and those found in the data of the sixth grade. The results of the research indicate that many students of the sixth grade of elementary school are still unaware of the basic orthographic rules of the Portuguese language and present results similar to those obtained in the analysis of data of the third grade. The research also showed that the 'repetition' variable has an effect on the type and number of errors produced in the sixth grade. In addition, it was observed that the highest concentration of errors in both samples focuses on the graphs defined by arbitrary rules of the language system as well as those related to the use of graphic accentuation. This corroborates what Morais (2006) says about the need of orthographic to be taught and learned in the school context, since it is a social convention is able to help to language users master the standard system. Based on the results obtained, it is verified the importance of teaching and learning of orthographic on Basic Education.