Development of oral narrative and level of mother's education

Purpose : to assess the oral narrative in children depending on the level of maternal education.Methods : the study was conducted at the Municipal Public School Magalhães Bastos, in the Meadow neighborhood in Recife, with 20 children in 1st grade I, aged between 7 and 8 years. For the evaluation we used a text and an mp3 recording of children for telling the story.Results : we observed that most children were in category II of the narrative scheme, most problems were cohesive in their narrative coherence and in relation to all the children were at level IV of consistency. When data from narrative scheme, cohesion and coherence were crossed with the data on the level of maternal education was observed that there was no significant relationship between them. It was also seen that very few mothers have the habit of reading in the home environment and most of them did not even graduate from elementary school I. We also observed that the more education the mothers, the better the habit of reading them.Conclusion : the maternal education had no significant effect on the oral narratives of children; this is due to several factors that need to be investigated further. However, the variability of oral narrative development of children observed in this study, whereas age and education were constant, suggesting the influence of other linguistic and social variables in this acquisition.