Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lucia Rottava

Titel

Written production of learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language: referentiation as a sociocognitive processing resource

Ist Teil von

• Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada, 2011-12, Vol.9 (2)

Ort / Verlag

Universidade de Brasília

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.