Sumario: | Constructivist positions of development posit a strong relationship between thought and language. Some perspectives have addressed this relationship of written language processes to oral processes. Particularly, it has been affirmed that the internalization of writing allows one to not only write well, but also to perfect oral thinking. Thus, this study was aimed to explore the relationship between the complexity of oral and written language of narrative production. A qualitative-descriptive study of frequencies with 10-years-old children was carried out to analyze syntactic and semiotic aspects of written and oral narratives. The results show higher averages in the case of written productions for formal measures of language and similar performances in semiotic aspects of narratives. This allow us to conclude that the performance in formal and semiotic characteristics of the language may differ according to the format and strategies that accompany the process of development of written language.
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