Abstract

LIMISSURI, Rita de Cássia Alves  and  BEFI-LOPES, Débora Maria. Fonologia e vocabulário na percepção de educadoras sobre comunicação de pré-escolares. R. Bras. Est. Pedag. [online]. 2009, vol.90, n.225, pp.433-448. ISSN 2176-6681.

Among the language subsystems, the phonology and the lexicon are the ones that can be observed by anybody of the child’s close relationship from the very beginning of the child’s development. However, we know that there are different ways to considerer the child language. After all, what for somebody seems a kind of disturbance; it can be considered normal by other person. This research intends to verify the influence of the phonology and vocabulary from the educators’ grasp about the preschoolers’ communication. It counted on the participation of 7 educators and 123 children. The evaluator asked each educator the following question: which children in your classroom do you judge to have some communication difficulty? And why? Soon afterwards, the phonology test and vocabulary test were applied to all children of the classroom (those mentioned and not mentioned by the educators). The results indicated that, for each age group, the influence of the phonology and vocabulary in the educators’ perception was understood in different ways. Thus a closer relationship between phonology and Education is important once we noticed the necessity to explain what is normal and what is not acceptable any more for each age, regarding the development of the phonology and vocabulary.

Keywords : Preschoolers; Educators; Phonology; Vocabulary.

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