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Publication details [#1166]
Gomes, Limaverde and Adriana Leite. 2013. A produção escrita de alunos com e sem síndrome de Down: uma análise da coerência textual. Educar em revista 47 (enero-marzo) : 285–300. 16 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Portuguese
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Place, Publisher
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Abstract
This work examines the textual coherence from the rewriting of the tale of
Rapunzel. It is based on a psychogenetic approach of written language. Nine
students participated in this study, six with Down syndrome (Group I) and
the other three without disabilities (Group II). They were enrolled between
2nd and 8th years of Primary Education in regular schools. The procedure
of textual production consisted in an individual meeting, whose request for
written production was preceded by the reading of the story by the researcher.
The data indicated the presence of textual coherence in the two groups,
although more frequent in productions of group II, which showed greater
competence with the elements of textual coherence. Group II presented pow-
erful strategies to mobilize the cognitive resources that enabled to articulate
previous knowledge and to focus them in the production and articulation of
their ideas in the text. The group I, in its majority experienced difficulty in
drawing up an endpoint in close relationship with the parties that comprised
the text. They did not, however, difficult to define and maintain the main
character throughout the story written, even when the story was incoherent
if we consider other indicators. Qualitatively, the texts of the students with
Down syndrome differed from those produced by the group II.