HOW THE CHILDREN PRODUCE WRITINGS?

The purpose of this paper is to identity children's internal process during production of writings. A new procedure was devised to deal with the problem of estimating the internal dynamics of chidren from 8 to 12 years of age. At first, a simple procedural model of discourse production was presented ; then, where and how long pauses were generated during writing was recorded for each child subject. Each child was also interviewed for the introspective report of what he or she thought at each pause