Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUISA BARBOSA DE LIMA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUISA BARBOSA DE LIMA
DATE: 21/07/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Híbrido Sala 35 -IL
TITLE:

Dyslexia, morphological awareness, and syntactic awareness: a linguistic analysis of texts written by young people and adults

KEY WORDS:

Dyslexia; Portuguese; writing; morphological awareness; syntactic awareness.

PAGES: 162
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

The research “Dyslexia, morphological awareness, and syntactic awareness: a linguistic analysis of texts written by young people and adults” aims to investigate whether the morphological awareness and/or syntactic awareness (or morphosyntactic awareness) of individuals with dyslexia would also be affected due to the existence of this learning disorder, as it occurs with phonological awareness. Among the objectives, we seek not only to demonstrate the relevance of the dyslexia debate in the educational context but also to critically review the tests on morphological awareness and syntactic awareness available in the literature from a linguistic perspective. We also intend to propose a protocol for investigating morphological and syntactic awareness for the analysis of texts produced by young adults with dyslexia. Regarding studies on dyslexia in the Portuguese language, we have utilized the works of Cuba dos Santos (1987), Ellis (1995), Martins (2003), Ianhez & Nico (2003), Davis & Braun (2004), Lukasova et al. (2009), ABD (2015), and Moura (2017). These studies point out dyslexic manifestations such as phoneme and grapheme substitutions, alterations in the order of letters or syllables, omissions and additions of letters, word substitutions with similar ones, inappropriate agglutinations and fragmentations of words, difficulties in reading unfamiliar words or non-words, confusion between symmetrical letters, and syllable order inversion in words—characteristics that are typically phonological. Our methodological approach is based on qualitative research, quantitative research, and triangulation (FLICK, 2009; FONSECA, 2002; MAXWELL, 1996). Our corpus consists of 256 written productions by individuals with dyslexia in the Programa de Avaliação Seriada (PAS/UnB) and in the Vestibular of the University of Brasília between 2010 and 2016. We analyzed the dyslexic characteristics of these productions based on the specific literature on the topic and the assumptions of Usage-based Functional Linguistics (MARTELOTTA, 2011; BYBEE, 2016). As a result of this thesis, we have developed an applied and applicable proposal for the analysis of texts produced by young adults with dyslexia. We have identified in the analyzed texts typical dyslexic traits already pointed out in the literature related to phonological awareness, and especially, we have also identified traits related to morphological and syntactic awareness of individuals with dyslexia, which deserve to be investigated in future research.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa ao Programa - 6414821 - CINTIA CARLA MOREIRA SCHWANTES
Presidente - 1549321 - DIONEY MOREIRA GOMES
Interna - 2572613 - ORMEZINDA MARIA RIBEIRO
Externo à Instituição - SAROM SILVA DE MENESES - UCBB