Lexical richness in elementary school written productions: a case study

Abstract

The present research is in the scope of the Díade Project, and shows the results of a comparison between the lexical richness of texts written within a two-year period by the same dyads of students. The corpus was collected according to the RAMOS system. The corpus collected allows the longitudinal study of creative story writing as a process and of the interaction between writers during collaborative writing. The present study focuses on stories invented by two dyads of elementary school students, and includes the aspects of lexical diversity and lexical density, showing the relevance of these researches in understanding the evolution of writing along the school years.