“May haus is biutiful”: rediscutindo a aquisição da escrita de crianças bilíngues e a concepção de “erro” por meio de suas produções

Abstract

From the perspective of the study of the acquisition and development of the writing process, especially regarding to writing in English, this work aims to discuss theoretical studies on bilingualism and bilingual education, and to study the writing acquisition process of children educated in this context. Moreover, the concepts of "error" are investigated and how they seen and considered on children written productions in English. Finally, it also analyzes the way children’s written productions evolve throughout their development as writers in a second language. For this purpose, this article looks at the works of Hudelson (1989) and Rubin and Carlan (2005) concerning to writing acquisition and its development in a second language. The works of Harmers and Blanc (2000), Megale (2005) and Marcelino (2009) corroborated for the discussion of bilingualism and its concepts. In addition, Beretta (2001), Cardoso (2007), Bellay (2010), Albuquerque (2012), Bernardi (2013) were used for the discussions about the perspectives and points of view on the notion and concepts of "error" in the learning process and the acquisition of a second language.