L’enfant apprenti-scripteur… De l’autocopie à l’auto-langage

Abstract

The 4/ 6 years old child writing without coding oral is likely to copy himself. Our hypothesis is that the encouragement to mobilize self-language promotes the disappearance of self-copy processes to the benefit of oral processes. 38 paired children have been taught during 8 didactic sessions. The 19 GE children write a sentence with an encouraging protocol. The 19 TG children write and draw. All children take three tests of individual invented spelling : a pretest, a middle-test and a post-test. We observe that the child who uses self-language overcomes visual conception of writing and gives up self-copy processes. Self-language allows him to memorise information in order to analyse the speech. The learning of this behaviour is essential to the mobilization of phonographic knowledge. This learning comes close to a procedural didactic that does not require any metalinguistic explanation.