Marcadores de cohesión en textos narrativos de estudiantes sordos de educación secundaria

Abstract

In this work, the aim is to characterize the use of cohesive markers used by deaf students of secondary education in the production of narrative texts, through a data collection instrument developed by the research group. The aforementioned in order to cover a subject little investigated in the country, recognize and make a timely record of the cohesive skills of written language, which will be useful for competent professionals to address the deaf population.Methodology: The study population consists of 10 deaf students of secondary basic education enrolled between 6th and 11th grade, with hearing loss of a severe and deep prelinguistic degree who use sign language as their first language. The format to collect the written sample is given to each participant and, based on what has been observed, the young people write a story in such a way that they narrate what happened in the image, using all the identified elements.Results: according to the analysis carried out, several similar characteristics are identified in all the writings such as: absence of the narrative structure itself, nominating elements of the caricature without establishing relations between them and using simple sentences of predominance Subject - Verb, such as: "father read news", "The happy child". Similarly, a repetitive use of names, repetition of words with nominal function to enter and reintroduce characters, little use of functional components and unconjoined verbs is observed.