Why observe psycholinguistic criteria?

Reflections for the construction of linguistic tasks in research and practices in Health and Education

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2024.1.46985

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Psycholinguistic criteria, performance assessment tasks, Psycholinguistics, Education, Health

Abstract

The application of psycholinguistic criteria in the construction of linguistic tasks to assess linguistic-cognitive performance in educational and clinical research and practice can guarantee the reliability of the data obtained. This article, based on theoretical frameworks and methodological procedures of Psycholinguistics, aims to highlight the importance of adopting psycholinguistic criteria in task development, indicating the factors that should be observed, depending on the objective of the study or practice, in the production of stimuli at the word, sentence and text levels. The adoption of these criteria is justified through examples of applications in the fields of Education and Health, with the aim of demonstrating the potential of this approach in identifying individual or group performance profiles in typical or atypical populations. The article also includes considerations on task design and the use of supportive computational resources. It is hoped to contribute to the instrumentalization of researchers, educators, and clinicians, with potential applications in other interdisciplinary areas.

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Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PhD in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio); associate professor of the Postgraduate Program in Language Studies and researcher at the Laboratory of Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition (LAPAL) of the same institution. Grant PQ2-CNPq 311763/2022-7.

Lilian Cristine Hübner, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

PhD in Literature from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Full Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Literature (Linguistics) and of the Literature Course at the School of Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Researcher at the Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology (IGG) of PUCRS. Researcher of Research Productivity at CNPq.

Ana Paula Rodrigues Bastos, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

PhD student in Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). CNPq scholarship holder.

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dos Santos Rodrigues, E., Cristine Hübner, L., & Rodrigues Bastos, A. P. (2024). Why observe psycholinguistic criteria? Reflections for the construction of linguistic tasks in research and practices in Health and Education. Letrônica, 17(1), e46985. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2024.1.46985

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