PURPOSE:
to describe the syntactic and linguistic structures of student's oral and written output.
METHODS:
the subjects of this research were thirteen sixth-grade, private school students. Each student had two outputs: one oral (recorded and transcribed) and one written, both based on two different pictures. These productions were analyzed in order to investigate syntactic aspects and the speech structure.
RESULTS:
showed that girls' written productions are longer than boys', who performance better orally. In oral and written productions, both groups prioritized coordination form. According to the speech structure, most part of the children were classified as level 1, performing poorer than expected for their age group.
CONCLUSION:
these results were below expectation for their school level. This performance can be explained by some hypotheses: these students were in a transition phase; few speech strategies were taught in school; parents and school provide few stimulation during the oral and written language development.
Language; Adolescent; Speech
