Study of adolescent narrative discourse: implications for phonoaudiology and education

Abstract

Research in the field of language development has yielded a vast bibliographical production around the first years of its acquisition. However, the adolescent age group is not sufficiently researched. Therefore, the objective of this work is to characterize the narrative discourse in adolescents. It was a cross-sectional investigation with a descriptive and exploratory purpose. The method to evaluate discourse "PREDI" was applied, which consists of a set of procedures to evaluate the narrative discourse. We worked with a sample of 20 students who attend a secondary school in the Province of San Luis. The first results obtained showed that, although in the narrative discourse the subjects present a complexity of high narrative superstructure, in the aspects of content there was little use of temporal and causal relationships. The results found are significant for Speech Therapy and Education, since, although they do not indicate language pathology, it is important to detect these limitations in order to design a timely therapeutic intervention. Likewise, it is necessary to rethink interdisciplinary proposals, with phonoaudiologists and educators that aim at the development of narrative discourse in adolescents.