CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE A ELABORAÇÃO DE UM INSTRUMENTO DE VERIFICAÇÃO DA CONSCIÊNCIA TEXTUAL

In the last decades, the study of the linguistic conscience and its diverse types have been attracting the interest of researchers from different areas such as Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Education, among others. These researches suggest that the effectiveness of the reading process is related to the individual's ability to reflect on their own language skills. Among the different types of linguistic consciousness, the textual consciousness, defined as intentional monitoring of the language user about the text, considering its properties and not its uses (Gombert,1992, p.112), has become a profitable field of study, since there are still few researches on this topic. In this sense, given the relative scarcity of studies with textual awareness in Brazil, an instrument was developed to measure it, focusing on the textual coherence that occurs in the maintenance and thematic progression (Charolles, 1978, p.20). For this, the fable was used, a textual genre of predominantly narrative structure (Adam, 2011, p.205) as the starting point for the questions. Thus, the purpose of this article is the presentation and analysis of this instrument, intended for students in the 5th and 6th years of Elementary School. After the presentation of the instrument, each question is analyzed under the bias of the studies cited, in order to contribute with a tool for teachers that favors the knowledge of the situation of textual awareness of their students.