Estudo acerca da representação gráfica do fonema /s/ na escrita de alunos do 3º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This article reports a study on the acquisition of children’s writing, in particular, on the multiplicity of graphic representations of the phoneme /s/ by students of the 3rd year of Elementary School. It is noteworthy that the acquisition of writing related to the phoneme /s/ is highly complex for the learner of Portuguese writing, as it involves several relationships, including irregularity, between that phoneme and the graphemes that represent it (LEMLE, 1994; MORAIS, 2008). This study has Usage-based Models (BYBEE, 2001; PIERREHUMBERT, 2001) as theoretical basis. In these models, which consider the experience of using the language in structuring the grammar and lexicon (FERRARI, 2011), frequency effects are important. In order to proceed with the present study, a collection of data written by students of the 3rd year of Elementary School, from a public school in Bom Sucesso - MG, was carried out. The results of this work indicate that the development of writing acquisition is based on use and experience and that the frequency factor is relevant for the learning of the child in the process of orthographic acquisition.