STRIKETHROUGHS CONNECTED TO WORD SEGMENTATION IN WRITING ACQUISITION

Abstract:

Based on the premise that strikethroughs connected to word segmentation consist in important vestiges of conflicts experienced by children in order to limit the (ortho)graphic word, this research aimed at introducing and describing possible factors that contribute to the emergence of strikethroughs. Three hundred and sixty-four strikethroughs (364) were identified in a corpus consisting of one thousand, six hundred and ninety-nine (1,699) text productions created by Elementary school children of level one, during 4 years. The analysis allowed to conclude the important influence of literacy for the instauration of conflicts on how the segmentation works. In the strikethroughs connected to segmentation, it is clear that, on principle, even the children's course in oral social practices are interlinked to children's course during literacy practice. Results show that children's writing cannot be interpreted as a mere spoken tracing, but, mainly, as a product of children's traffic by historically constituted social practices.

Keywords:
Orality; Literacy; Writing; Erasure; Graphic segmentation.