Coesão e Coerência Textual: O caso dos textos escritos pelos alunos da 7ª Classe do Colégio Nº 67 Mandume

Abstract

The study on the written texts produced by students of the 7th Class of Colégio No 67 Mandume was established by us based on the hypothesis of the existence of difficulties of these students to produce texts with problems of cohesion and coherence. Thus, with the aim of analyzing textual cohesion and coherence in their writings and we propose some activities that contribute to textual cohesion and coherence to minimize the difficulties presented in their texts. We went to the 1st Cycle of Secondary Education Colégio No 67 Mandume – Lubango to collect the compositions of the Quarterly Test to verify the writing difficulties presented in the students' texts. The methodological approach used in the research was based on 259 tests, from which a 12% sample was extracted, corresponding to 32 tests selected through the table of random numbers. In the tests, only the editorial part interested us and they were analyzed using the interphrasing cohesion as an instrument of analysis by designating the cohesive links that link the elements of the text, that is, according to the classification by Alves & Conde (2006, p. 51) and to analyze textual coherence, which has to do with the logic of ideas, we use, as an instrument of analysis, semantic coherence and syntactic coherence, the classification proposed by Koch & Elias (2006, p. 196). Thus, interphrasal cohesion problems were detected due to the inadequate use of connectors, with a higher incidence and very significant for the copulative coordination conjunction and, with 43%, which, in many cases, was used in place of the verb form é. Syntactic inconsistency problems were also detected due to the inadequate selection of lexical items in the sentence and due to the disorganization of the structures with 43 occurrences, which made a total of 100%. There were also problems of semantic inconsistency and this was caused by syntactic incoherence, with 36 occurrences that made a total of 100%. The difficulties presented by the students who must need treatment are confirmed through proposals to alleviate these problems: reading game, word cutting exercise, the right word and filling in gaps.