Desempenho ortográfico de escolares do 2º ao 5º ano do ensino público

The effectiveness of an auditory temporal training program in children who present voiceless/voiced-based orthographic errors

INTRODUCTION

Studies on children's written production of the Brazilian Portuguese have shown that one of the most frequent phonological-based orthographic errors is the one related to voiceless/voiced phonemes. Children who make this type of error may have auditory temporal processing disorders, which can harm the perception of phonemes with similar characteristics.

AIM

Verify the effectiveness of an auditory temporal training program based on activities adapted from the software Fast ForWord in the auditory temporal processing, i.e. the temporal ordering skill, and in reducing voiceless/voiced-based orthographic errors and the frequency of occurrence of these errors in the written production of the children.

METHOD

Twenty-five children participated on this study. They were divided in two groups: experimental group consisting of 16 participants, who engaged in the auditory temporal training activities; and a placebo group consisting of nine participants, who engaged in passive visual activities. The behavioral measures applied in the pre-training evaluation, post-training and placebo evaluations were: i) auditory skill of temporal ordering by the Pitch Pattern Sequence Test; and ii) analysis of the amount of voiceless/voiced-based orthographic errors and the frequency of occurrence of these errors by the use of dictation.

RESULTS

No statistically significant differences were found concerning the placebo group in the pre-training and post-training evaluations, in all evaluation measures. However, statistically significant differences were found in the pre-training and post-training evaluations for the pitch pattern sequence test concerning the experimental group. These differences were specifically related to a reduction of the errors regarding fricative graphemes, and the frequency of occurrence of plosive and fricative graphemes.

CONCLUSIONS

The auditory temporal training program was effective in improving the temporal ordering skill and reducing errors in the writing of children who made voiceless/voiced-based orthographic errors.

Spelling performance of public and private school students: A comparative study

Abstract To characterize and compare the spelling performance of private and public students. Three hundred 1st-5th graders from public and private schools in the city of Marília, São Paulo, Brazil, were evaluated, totalizing 30 students from each grade, respectively. Collective and individual versions of the Pró-Ortografia test (a renowned Brazilian spelling test) were administered. There were significant inter-group differences indicating that private school students achieved higher performance. The mean values of correct answers of higher grade level students were statistically greater than those of the lower grade level students. The results indicated that the mean values of correct answers of all versions of the spelling test administered increased across grades for both private and public school students. However, the data evaluated showed that private school students attained higher spelling performance than public school students from the 2nd grade onwards.

Principais alterações encontradas nas narrativas escritas de crianças com dificuldades em leitura/escrita

RESUMO Objetivo: analisar as produções escritas de crianças com dificuldades em leitura/escrita. Métodos: 171 crianças, matriculadas no 4º/5º do ensino fundamental constituíram dois grupos: G1 (n=50) - crianças sem dificuldades em leitura/escrita, G2 (n=121) - crianças com dificuldades nessas tarefas. Cada criança, após observar uma figura estímulo, deveria escrever um texto. Foi analisado a grafia, os erros ortográficos, as variáveis linguísticas e o conteúdo deste. Resultados: em G2 observou-se alterações em relação à grafia; maior percentual de ocorrência de erros ortográficos e de diversos tipos; mesma proporção no uso de substantivos, adjetivos e pronomes, porém dificuldade na conjugação verbal e no uso de advérbios temporais. Em relação ao conteúdo, apenas descreveram a cena e demonstraram vocabulário restrito e pouca criatividade. Conclusão: a produção escrita de crianças com dificuldade em leitura/escrita apresentou diversas falhas entre as quais: alterações na grafia, presença de erros ortográficos e limitação na construção de texto, restringindo-se a simples descrição do desenho estímulo, com pouca articulação de idéias e sem criação de personagens, local e tempo para a sua história. Este conjunto de falhas compromete a inteligibilidade do texto pelo leitor e demonstra que a elaboração escrita é uma tarefa complexa para essas crianças.

Desempenho ortográfico de escolares com dislexia do desenvolvimento e com dislexia do desenvolvimento associado ao transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade

RESUMO Objetivo Analisar e classificar o desempenho ortográfico, de acordo com a semiologia dos erros, de crianças com dislexia do desenvolvimento e com dislexia do desenvolvimento e transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade em relação a um grupo de crianças sem queixas de aprendizagem escolar. Métodos Participaram da pesquisa 70 crianças, estudantes do 3º ao 5º distribuídas em três grupos: 32 escolares sem queixa de dificuldade de aprendizagem (GI), média de idade de 9,5 anos; 22 escolares com dislexia do desenvolvimento (GII), média de idade de 10 anos; e 16 escolares com dislexia do desenvolvimento e transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade (GIII), média de idade de 9,9. A habilidade de ortografia das crianças foi avaliada por meio de um ditado de palavras padronizado. Resultados Os dados indicaram que os escolares do GII e do GIII apresentaram um pior desempenho quando comparados ao GI. Não houve diferença estatística entre o desempenho dos escolares do GII e do GIII quanto ao número de acertos na ortografia, embora o desempenho do GIII tenha sido pior. Os escolares do GII e do GIII diferiram apenas quanto ao tipo de erro ortográfico produzido por cada grupo. Conclusão Os dados da presente pesquisa contribuem para o delineamento de melhores programas interventivos para a população estudada.

Characteristics of the acquisition of sonorant consonants orthography in Brazilian children from a São Paulo municipality

PURPOSE

To describe the spelling performance of children with regard to the record of sonorant consonants in Brazilian Portuguese language, to verify if the errors in their records were influenced by the accent in the word, and to categorize the kinds of errors found.

METHODS

For this current survey, 801 text productions were selected as a result of the development of 14 different thematic proposals, prepared by 76 children from the first grade of primary school, in 2001, coming from two schools of a city from São Paulo, Brazil. Of these productions, all words with sonorant consonants in a syllabic position of simple onset were selected. They were then organized as they appeared as pre-tonic, tonic, and post-tonic syllables, unstressed and tonic monosyllables.

RESULTS

The following was observed: the number of hits was extremely higher than that of errors; higher occurrence of errors in non-accented syllables; higher occurrence of phonological substitutions followed by omissions and, at last, orthographic substitutions; and higher number of substitutions that involved graphemes referring to the sonorant class.

CONCLUSION

Considering the distribution of orthographic data between hits and errors, as well as their relationship with phonetic-phonological aspects, may contribute to the comprehension of school difficulties, which are usually found in the first years of literacy instruction.

Comparison of students from private and public schools on the spelling performance

OBJECTIVE

To compare the spelling ability of schoolchildren from the fourth to sixth grades of the elementary schools in the private and public schools of Bauru, São Paulo, and to verify whether errors are overcome as studies progress and the hierarchy of errors as to how often they occur.

METHODS

A dictation was applied to 384 schoolchildren: 206 from the private schools: 74 were at the fourth grade, 65 at the fifth grade, and 67 at the sixth grade; and 178 from the public schools; 56 at the fourth grade, 63 at the fifth grade, and 59 at the sixth grade of elementary school. Student's t test was used.

RESULTS

In comparison of total spelling errors score, difference was found among the fourth and sixth grades of the private and public schools. Spelling errors decreased as education progressed, and those related to language irregularities were more common.

CONCLUSION

Spelling ability and performance of students from the private and public schools are not similar in the fourth and sixth grades, but it is in the fifth grade. Spelling errors are gradually overcome as education progresses; however, this overcome rate was considerable between the fourth and fifth grades in the public schools. Decrease in the types of spelling errors follows a hierarchy of categories: phoneme/grapheme conversion, simple contextual rules, complex contextual rules, and language irregularities. Finally, the most common type of spelling error found was that related to language irregularities.

Relações entre aspectos ortográficos e fonético-fonológicos de fonemas oclusivos

OBJETIVOS: descrever o desempenho ortográfico de crianças - quanto ao registro de consoantes oclusivas do Português Brasileiro; verificar se a acento influencia a ocorrência de erros no interior das palavras; e classificar o padrão da distribuição dos erros. MÉTODOS: foram analisadas 210 produções textuais referentes a 14 propostas temáticas, coletadas durante o ano de 2001, quando os sujeitos cursavam a 1ª série do Ensino Fundamental. Para descrever o desempenho das crianças, para o primeiro objetivo, os dados foram divididos em Acertos e Erros; para segundo objetivo, os erros foram classificados em sílabas acentuadas e não-acentuadas, e, por fim, para o terceiro objetivo, os erros foram subclassificados em omissões, erros ortográficos e erros fonológicos. Os erros fonológicos foram subdivididos, ainda, conforme ocorressem dentro e fora da classe. RESULTADOS: para o primeiro objetivo, encontraram-se 5.746 possibilidades de ocorrência de consoantes oclusivas na posição de ataque silábico simples, com maior quantidade de acertos; para o segundo objetivo, observou-se maior ocorrência de erros em sílabas não-acentuadas; e por fim, para o terceiro objetivo, foi possível observar predomínio de erros fonológicos, seguidos pelas omissões e pelos erros ortográficos, tanto no interior das sílabas não-acentuadas quanto das acentuadas. Ainda conforme o terceiro objetivo, nos erros fonológicos, observou-se sua maior ocorrência dentro da classe; e novamente, não-influência do acento. CONCLUSÃO: conclui-se, então, a importância da análise dos aspectos fonéticos-fonológicos na aquisição da ortografia infantil, bem como a relevância da distribuição dos acertos tanto como dos erros.

Intervention program efficacy for spelling difficulties

OBJECTIVE

To develop an intervention procedure for spelling difficulties and to verify the effectiveness of the intervention program in students with lower spelling performance.

METHOD

We developed an intervention program for spelling difficulties, according to the semiology of the errors. The program consisted of three modules totaling 16 sessions. The study included 40 students of the third to fifth grade of public elementary education of the city of Marilia (SP), of both genders, in aged of eight to 12 years old, being distributed in the following groups: GI (20 students with lower spelling performance) and GII (20 students with higher spelling performance). In situation of pre and post-testing, all groups were submitted to the Pro-Orthography.

RESULTS

The results statistically analyzed showed that, in general, all groups had average of right that has higher in post-testing, reducing the types of errors second semiologycal classification, mainly related to natural spelling errors. However, the results also showed that the groups submitted to the intervention program showed better performance on spelling tests in relation to not submitted.

CONCLUSION

The intervention program developed was effective once the groups submitted showed better performance on spelling tests in relation to not submitted. Therefore, the intervention program can help professionals in the Health and Education to minimize the problems related to spelling, giving students an intervention that is effective for the development of the spelling knowledge.

Perceptual-auditory and orthographic performance of fricative consonants in writing acquisition

PURPOSE

To investigate the perceptual-auditory and orthographic performances of students regarding identification of contrasts among the fricatives of Brazilian Portuguese, and to investigate the extent to which these two types of performances are related.

METHODS

Data from perceptual-auditory and orthographic performances of 20 children attending the two first grades of elementary education at a public school in Mallet (PR), Brazil, were analyzed. Data collection regarding auditory perception was based on the Assessment Tool in Speech Perception (PERCEFAL), using the software Perceval. Data collection regarding orthography was carried out through dictation of the same words used in the assessment tool PERCEFAL.

RESULTS

We observed: more accuracy in perceptual-auditory than in orthographic skills; tendency of shorter response time and lesser variability in the perceptual-auditory hits than in the errors; mismatch of errors in orthographic and auditory perception, since, in perception, the highest percentage of errors involved the point of articulation of fricatives, while in orthography the highest percentage involved voicing.

CONCLUSION

Although related to each other, perceptual-auditory and orthographic performances do not match term by term. Therefore, in clinical practice, attention should focus not only on the aspects that bring these two performances together, but also on the aspects that differentiate them.