Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento da comunicação verbal na criança

Abstract

Based on Vygotsky s mediation theory, the objective of this thesis was to study the development of the child s verbal communication (linguistic and cognitive acquisition). The analysis of the interpretation corpus of the logical sequences made by children aged 2 to 10 was done using the theoretical-methodological framework of the theory of the Matrix of Verbal Language and its sub modalities. We understand that the classifications that emerge from the levels and sub levels of the Verbal Matrix permit us to observe the gradual development of the child s verbal language through the analysis of the evolution of the narrative processes. The use of the classifications of the Verbal Matrix made it possible for us to study the strategies of the building of the verbal language in the initial age groups and to observe the gradual evolution of the processes of description and narrative to more complex levels in the course of the child s linguistic and cognitive development. We have come to the conclusion there is a process that generates the narrative development which begins in less complex narrative units and evolves into more complex units. They describe the cognitive profiles and the development of the child s thinking and verbal communication