As representações gráficas não convencionais das sibilantes alveolares nas produções escritas

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the unconventional graphical representations of the phonemes /s/ and /z/ in texts written by 7th grade students. The general objective is to analyze, through theoretical and practical investigation, the unconventional graphical representations of alveolar sibilants in the written productions of the participating students as well as the development of pedagogical intervention in order to minimization such orthographic "mistakes". It aims specifically to a) research and study authors who approach knowledge related to initial reading instruction, literacy, orthography, writing and teaching of the Portuguese Language; b) develop didactic and pedagogical activities to collect of the material for analysis; c) evaluate the orthographic deviations related to the use of unconventional letters in the graphic representation of the phonemes /s/ and /z/; d) elaborate an action plan to be developed in the group that participates in the research; e) promote pedagogical intervention, aiming at minimizing orthographic "mistakes" regarding the unconventional use of letters in the graphical representation of the phonemes /s/ and /z/ in Brazilian Portuguese; f) compare the results of the diagnostic phase with those of the post-intervention, phase for evaluation; and finally, g) contribute satisfactorily to the achievement of students' better proficiency in writing specifically as regards to orthography. The hypotheses were that: a) from the development of activities of pedagogical intervention, the problems detected in the unconventional graphic use of the phonemes /s/ and /z/ in the written productions of students would be softened, so that the writing would be improved ; b) the students’ texts after the intervention would present a higher percentage of conventional orthographic norms use in relation to the orthographic representation of the phonemes /s/ and /z/ in Brazilian Portuguese; and c) the representations of the phonemes studied are cases of memorization, and as the students participating in the research had little contact with written Portuguese, they could not sufficiently memorize the use of the letters representing such phonemes in order to avoid making "mistakes". In order to carry out this study, authors who research Applied Linguistics specifically who deal with spelling, literacy, writing and teaching the Portuguese Language were used, such as: Soares (2004), Morais (2010), Oliveira (2005), Silva (2001), Massini- Cagliari and Cagliari (1999) among others. This ethnographic research was developed in a quantitative-qualitative approach, with action research as the scientific method adopted and also classified as exploratory nature. At the end of this research, even though the unconventional records of sibilants /s/ and /z/ in the written productions of the students occurred, the results, show that the problem researched has not been remedied, so that new intervention strategies are necessary, in order to contribute with the students in the learning of the orthographic aspects studied. Thus, knowing that the search for the development of orthography domain should accompany the language user at the time of writing, we believe that this research contributed to the students’ awakening for the importance of orthographic conventions.