Written production of learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language: referentiation as a sociocognitive processing resource
This article discusses referentiation in texts written by learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language. Referentiation consists of construction and reconstruction of discourse objects, a product that results from cognitive and interactive activity. Among forms of interaction, written pro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de Brasília
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Horizontes |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/5668 |
| Summary: | This article discusses referentiation in texts written by learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language. Referentiation consists of construction and reconstruction of discourse objects, a product that results from cognitive and interactive activity. Among forms of interaction, written production is an interactive process as meanings derive from the interaction between writer/reader and text in complex and multifaceted experiences that involve prior experiences and/or knowledge, besides the interlocutor’s discursive purpose. Therefore, the text is the result of an action ‘under construction’ made possible through the use of language. Data for this article come from written production developed in classes of Portuguese as a foreign language. The findings reveal learners’ textual processing and its peculiarities resulting from the learners’ proficiency levels and the requirements of the type and theme of the specified task. |
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| ISSN: | 1677-9770 2237-0951 |