Algunos aspectos evolutivos en narrativas escritas por niños con problemas en el aprendizaje de la lecto escritura

Abstract

We present the first results of a longitudinal study of reading disabled children as compared with a control group of normal children. Although the study we are reporting concerns both reading and writing; in this paper we concentrate on writing and particularlyon the coherence achieved by both groups of children. The texts analyzed were written after a short narrative was read aloud to them; the first time in 1990; the second time in 1992. Ouranalysis of coherence is based on a scalar (nondichotomic) concept which comprises six degrees. This paper presents an attempt at operationalization of the coherence scale (by means of a decision tree); discusses some statistical results; and gives a short linguistic analysis of texts written by three children who did not get the same mark on both tests.