This paper describes the basic aspects of the work developed under the supervision of Professor Carolina Bori at the Preparatory Course in the Universidade Federal de São Carlos in 1977, which brought about two new lines of research in Brazil. The first line of research had to do with the teaching of Chemistry at the university level, and the second line dealt with a new procedure in Psychology to collect and analyse verbal reports. The main characteristics of each line are described, as well as the questions that led to them and their preliminary results. The contributions of this new approach to verbal reports are analysed within the realm of research in Psychology, particularly under the light of Vygotsky’s propositions about the role of verbal reports in experimental research.
Verbal reports; Teaching methods; Discourse analysis; Content analysis; Vygotsky. Lev Semenovich, 1896-1934