Uso de marcas de oralidad en narraciones de niños y adolescentes de escuela rural

Abstract

This study tries to analyze the presence of orality marks in oral and written narrative texts produced by 12 children (5th grade) and 12 adolescents (8th grade) from a rural community in Mexico. Data for oral and written narratives were obtained from narrative productions on a book of images. Orality marks were classified into <i>phonological; grammatical</i> and <i>lexical</i>. General results show minimal differences between oral/written modality and between age groups in frequency and types of used marks. In general; oral texts contained more phonological marks; and both age groups used more lexical than grammatical marks. These findings suggest that during the school years the differentiation process between oral and written language still plays an important role in language acquisition.