La producción de discurso narrativo en jóvenes y adultos letrados e iletrados

Abstract

The present work explores and compares the performance of two groups of literate and illiterate people (between 25 and 58 years old the former; and 14 to 65 the latter) in narrative’s production. To this end two different narrative tasks were selected: the production of a personal experience narrative and a narrative based on a sequence of images. It was assumed that each task would present different cognitive and linguistic demands which might support or obstruct subjects’ performance. The analysis of narratives extension; MLU and use of anaphoric expression was undertaken. Results showed a different performance trend between illiterate and literate groups depending on the task. While the literate group had a good performance in the production of both narratives; the illiterate group had difficulties to produce a narrative based on a sequence of images but showed an adequate use of varied linguistic resources when producing personal experiences.