A pontuação como janela para a consciência sintática

More than developing a study on punctuation, this paper intends to explore the uses of punctuation as window syntactic awareness or metasyntactic abilities. Different theoretical models identify several degrees conscious access linguistic knowledge and types metalinguistic verbalizations. The analysis canonical deviant in adult academic writing contributes characterization different awareness, corroborating some hypotheses under discussion section 2. A case is methodological approach adopted undergraduate students’ punctuation. included four tasks: (i) written production, (ii) error correction task, (iii) explanation, (iv) verbalized conceptions focus group. Results, presented 4, show general dissociation between explicit rules success its uses. Conclusions point clues for an pedagogy more complex concept “syntactic awareness”, which controlled verbalization abilities must be considered.