Léxico disponible de escolares de la etapa primaria o básica: bases y propuesta metodológicas

Abstract

This article presents the methodological bases of lexical availability in children with a proposal that concretises the paradigm of oral corpora of 6-year-old schoolchildren who have not yet become fluent in writing. The aim has been to readjust and develop reasoned criteria that bring together the research carried out to date. Consequently, after the revision of investigations, the identification of common points and the aspects on which there is no consensus were highlighted. As the main conclusion, it is possible to show that children’s corpora cannot be collected in the same way whether they are oral or written. In this sense, the first difficulties arise when considering the time available to participants to respond to the survey and the use of evocative stimuli. Some oral children’s research shows that the responses which deviate from the main objective (to collect the available lexis), as the materials generated may not be representative when other sub-topics are presented during the test.