Abstract

ALEGRIA, Vânia Rita dos Santos. Promote lexical development from the early years: a didactic path. Invest. Práticas [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.1, pp.3-30. ISSN 2182-1372.  https://doi.org/10.25757/invep.v10i1.206.

In this paper we presente a study that aims to: (i) characterize students' competences at the level of verbal definition; (ii) implement a didactic course in a first year of elementary school; (iii) to evaluate the effectiveness of the didactic intervention carried out in the development of students' verbal definition. In order to respond to the objectives outlined, the design and implementation of an intervention project was carried out in a first year of elementary school, on the south bank of Lisbon. The planning of the intervention contemplates the application of a pre-test of verbal definition (Sim-Sim, 2014) and the didactic intervention in the classroom, followed by a post-test of verbal definition, in order to be able to evaluate the results of the intervention. The results of this research show that the design of a didactic course, anchored in the principles of the discovery learning approach and designed to trigger the students' metalinguistic activity in the domain of lexical consciousness, can be a lexical development factor, which in the line of literature of the specialty is indicated as an enhancer of the increase of literacy skills.

Keywords : lexical development; verbal definition; discovery learning approach; portuguese L1 teaching; first year of elementary school.

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