@article{Oliveira_Caldeira_2021, title={Misconceptions and conceptual errors in education: paths and mishaps in brazilian literacy}, volume={2}, url={https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/318}, DOI={10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id318}, abstractNote={<p>In this article, the authors explore the mistakes and conceptual errors that systematically support the discourse and narratives of public policies and pedagogical proposals developed in Brazil related to literacy. Two major sources of misunderstandings and conceptual errors in literacy are identified in Brazil and worldwide. The first is “Whole Language”, developed by Kenneth Goodman and explored for literacy purposes by Frank Smith, and the second is the socio-constructivist approach proposed by Emilia Ferrero for learning written language. These sources of misunderstandings and conceptual errors were identified with special vigor by Marilyn Adams in 1990, and definitively dismantled by the National Reading Panel in 2000. However, the training of literacy teachers continued to privilege “Whole Language” and socio-constructivism, with profound consequences on students' literacy levels. The situation is even more serious in Brazil, as official documents for decades have proposed literacy processes without any scientific evidence, wrote with a clearly abusing language and without strong literacy concepts. In Brazil, the misconceptions about Learning to Read and Reading to Learn, the impact of mechanical learning on the processes of learning to read and write and the almost complete absence and consideration of neuroanatomical structures in literacy processes enforced literacy methodologies that are also mistaken, that played more of a barrier role in learning the “first letters”. Neuroscience studies clarify that phonic methods are the only ones that provide good literacy processes, as they stimulate brain areas specialized in the processing of read and written language.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Cadernos de Linguística}, author={Oliveira, João Batista Araujo e and Caldeira, Pedro Zany}, year={2021}, month={May}, pages={e318} }