A recombinação de letras no ensino e emergência da leitura generalizada recombinativa em crianças da pré-escola

Abstract

Some studies have demonstrated the reading of words formed by recombined syllables in pre-school children. However, the restricted control through syllables has occurred in those studies, making the generalized reading more difficult. The present study investigated the effect of the teaching of conditional discriminations among syllables in the emergence of the textual reading of those syllables and the new ones recombined by the letters of the teaching syllables, avoiding the establishment of the restricted control. It also verified the emergence of the textual and comprehensive reading of meaningful and meaningless words formed by the teaching and recombined syllables. Five pre-school children participated of the study that was divided in three Stages. In Stage I, the syllables NO, BO, NA, DO and NE were taught through a matching-to-sample procedure, and the recombined syllables BA, DA, DE and BE were tested. In Stage II, it was verified the textual and comprehensive reading of the meaningful words DADO, DEDO, BEBÊ and BOBO. In Stage III, it was verified the textual and comprehensive reading of the meaningless words NEBA, NODE, BEDO and DABO. All the participants presented the emergence of the textual reading of the taught and recombined syllables. The five participants readily presented the comprehensive reading of all the meaningful and meaningless words, documented through the equivalence relations between pictures and written words and spoken words. In Stage II, four participants demonstrated the immediate emergence of the textual reading of all the meaningful words before the comprehensive reading of them, and one participant demonstrated it after the emergence. After the reading of the taught and recombined syllables in Stage I, the reading of all the meaningful words (Stage II) and meaningless words (Stage III) occurred. The restricted control, that has been related in some studies, was not established in this present study. The recombinative reading occurred without applying the special procedures. These results indicate that if the discriminations among syllables are taught directly, the emergence of the recombinative generalized reading will occur without the establishment of the restricted control and without the application of teaching special procedures.