Análise da Ortografia na Produção Escrita dos Alunos da 9ª Classe do Colégio nº 67 Mandume

Abstract

Written production is a fundamental exercise in communication. For that, it has to be done well. However, even though portuguese language teachers have made efforts to teach spelling rules, even higher education individuals demonstrate numerous difficulties in the act of using writing skills. With this as the main reason, we propose to develop the theme «Analysis of Orthography in the Written Production of Students of the 9th Grade of College no 67 Mandume», with the main objective of examining the orthographic difficulties in the texts produced by those students. For this study, we opted for a descriptive-analytical research, using induction, deduction and bibliographic methods. From a theoretical point of view, we based ourselves on the typology of spelling errors by Gomes, this choice being the result of a comparison of this typology with those of Gregg and Pedro. The population studied consisted of texts by 80 students, whose sample consisted of texts by 16 students (corresponding to 20%). From the analysis of the texts in our sample, we found spelling errors in terms of morphosyntax (129; 27%), accentuation (112; 24%) and punctuation (164; 34%), with emphasis on the use of capital letters (of the errors morphosyntactic, correspond to 36%). In order to minimize such errors, we propose some more dynamic, interactive and modern pedagogical activities, which arouse students' motivation for learning, such as: spelling activities notebook and booklet of phonetically and graphically close or the same words.