Resumen

VALLES GONZALEZ, Beatriz. Ideas to guide the planning of the mother tongueteaching in initial school. Revista de Investigación [online]. 2007, vol.31, n.62, pp.093-106. ISSN 1010-2914.

This paper presents a Theoretical Model for the Early Teaching of the Mother Tongue. It was made from the results of a research; which objective was to explain and understand the characteristics of the phonethological development of Venezuelan children between four and twelve months old. We also developed a qualitative analysis of the role played by textual and contextual categories. This study was made from the observation of the mother-child interaction in daily actions. The findings show how oral skills are built in a collaborative way based on the interrelation of textual and contextual categories and they represent an effort to value and understand the characteristics of the linguistic development of Venezuelan children.

Palabras clave : Initial education; psycho-sociolinguistics; teaching of the mother tongue.