Objeto de aprendizagem para ensino de psicolingüística experimental: princípio da aposição local

Abstract

This work aims to provide a resource for teaching the fastest growing with the advancement of digital technologies: learning objects. Learning Objects are any digital resources that can be re-used to support learning. Therefore, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages in using these objects as an educational resource as well as the processes needed for its development and construction. We synthesized two important points: the repositories (storage locations of OA) and metadata (data about the objects). We will present as a result of the study the structure of a learning object (interactive animation) developed for the teaching of Experimental Psycholinguistics, more specifically the Garden -Path Theory, which postulates processing principles concerning ambiguous sentences based on the economy in terms of cost for working memory. The principle of sentence processing working in the object is Late Closure (or low attachment), which proposes that, in the face of ambiguous clauses, the syntactic processor (parser) is linked to the noun phrase currently being processed, or the nearest. In the learning object, the user is prompted to mount and read ambiguity relative clause (for mounting options are available), then must answer a question about what he read, trying to undo the ambiguity. Through this, we can observe in practice the performance of the Late Closure in Garden-Path Theory. We will also present the results of the evaluative questionnaire answered by students of the discipline Teoria Linguística II after they using the learning object to teach the Late Closure.