Much recent attention has been devoted to the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic properties of phrasal verbs--those two-part lexical items like "put on" and "tighten up", along with suggestions regarding effective methods of teaching them to non-native speakers. According to Cornell (1985), phrasal verbs, "have been 'discovered' as an important component in curricula for English as a Foreign Language" (p. 1). However, it is very possible that they have become objects of current research primarily because of their complexity: their polysemy, their idiomaticity, their syntactic restraints, a complexity that means covering phrasal verbs in an ESL/EFL course can be a time-consuming process.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 60-62.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 63-66.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborg University, 2002.

This dissertation explores the contribution of critical discourse analysis (CDA) using functional systemic grammar (FSG) to curriculum development in historical studies at university level. The study is premised on an acceptance of Habermas' (1972) theory of knowledge constitutive interests which claims that all knowledge is "interested" and which, on the basis of different interests, identifies three paradigms for knowledge construction. I make use of these paradigms to describe different approaches to curriculum development, to language teaching and to historical studies. I make the value judgement that curriculum development conducted within the hermeneutic and critical paradigms is educationally more valid than that conducted within the traditionalist paradigm; and that this is particularly so for disciplines such as historical studies, which involve the interpretation of texts. Furthermore, I suggest that the epistemological assumptions and the pedagogy of historical studies have developed within the traditionalist paradigm and that postmodernist perspectives pose a challenge to these epistemological foundations. In response, I suggest that the development of a "post-positivist" approach to historical studies within the hermeneutic and critical paradigms may provide a practically feasible and morally defensible strategy for the teaching of history. But this approach involves understanding history as discursive practice and therefore requires a method of discourse analysis in order to "do history". I therefore develop a method of critical discourse analysis for application to historical studies, which uses Halliday's functional systemic grammar (FSG) for the formal analysis of texts. The applied aspect of this dissertation involves a small staff development project, in which I worked with a group of historians to explore the application of the method of CDA to four selected historical texts (using the post-positivist approach to historical studies). I also designed four critical language awareness exercises to demonstrate how the method might be adapted for student use. The findings of my own explorations and of the staff development project are as follows: Firstly, I suggest that the staff development project was successful in that it provided a stimulating and dialogic context for the historians to reflect on their own theory and practice as researchers and teachers of history. Furthermore, I suggest that the method of CDA developed in this study provides a theoretically adequate and practically feasible methodology for post-positivist historical studies. This claim is in part confirmed by the historians' appreciation of the text analyses done using the method. However, the staff development project showed that the method is demanding for non-linguists, largely due to the effort and time required to master the terminology and techniques of FSG. In this sense the staff development project failed to achieve its full potential because it did not provide the historians with sufficient opportunities to learn and practice the techniques of FSG. The CLA materials prepared for students were positively evaluated by the historians, who felt that they demonstrate an accessible and feasible way of introducing CDA to history students. (However, these materials will only be properly evaluated when they are used in the classroom.) Finally, I conclude that this application of CDA to historical studies meets the criteria for curriculum development within the hermeneutic paradigm and that it holds out possibilities for emancipatory practice within the critical paradigm. Secondly, I conclude that the application of CDA to the discourses of other academic disciplines holds enormous promise for work in staff and curriculum development. This study shows how CDA can be used to demonstrate how the epistemological assumptions of a discipline are encoded in the grammar and structure of its discourse. The insights provided by CDA used in this way could be invaluable for a "discourse-across-the-curriculum" approach to staff development at a university. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, 1997.

No description available.

No description available.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-09-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:22:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 luz_ebp_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1754986 bytes, checksum: a4540d4a50825302d839f298b0455de8 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este trabalho tem por objetivo verificar como os componentes de quatorze sistemas de atividades no escopo do “Projeto Teletandem Brasil: línguas estrangeiras para todos” (contexto multimidial telecolaborativo de aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras) estão caracterizados, interagem e influenciam a continuidade ou descontinuidade das parcerias teletandem. O seu referencial teórico baseia-se nos fundamentos da aprendizagem em teletandem, seus princípios norteadores, nas normas e sugestões para realização de teletandem e, principalmente, na abordagem histórico-cultural da Teoria da Atividade. Também tem-se em consideração a teoria das metas, o componente intercultural das interações teletandem, além de outros fatores presentes nas interações decorrentes dos diferentes contextos sociais, institucionais e tecnológicos em que os participantes estão inseridos. A pesquisa em questão investiga sete pares teletandem, que interagem por períodos de um a oito meses, constituídos por uma brasileira, que foi pareada com três falantes de espanhol, e outra brasileira que interagiu com quatro falantes de inglês. Os dados foram gerados por meio de um questionário aplicado às interagentes brasileiras, gravações das interações (predominantemente chats), diários, e-mails trocados entre os participantes, os relatórios de pesquisas das interagentes brasileiras (que estavam envolvidas em iniciação científica ou estágio básico), narrativas e uma entrevista final. Um sistema de atividade primário foi estruturado, considerando uma interação prototípica de teletandem e, na triangulação dos dados, outros quatorze diferentes sistemas de atividades, específicos de cada interagente e parceria, foram caracterizados e analisados. Baseando-se nos preceitos da Teoria da Atividade, entende-se que as variáveis que influenciam a continuidade das parcerias estão relacionadas... / This study aims to verify how the components of fourteen activity systems within the scope of “Teletandem Project: foreign languages for all” (multimidial telecollaborative context of foreign languages teaching) are characterized, interact and influence the continuity or discontinuity of teletandem partnerships. The theoretical framework is based, mainly, on the fundamentals of the teletandem learning, its guiding principles, norms and suggestions for conducting teletandem and the historical-cultural approach of the activity theory, It also incorporates the goal theory, the intercultural context of the teletandem interactions, among other factors present in the interactions related to different social, institutional and technological contexts of the participants. The research in question investigates seven teletandem partnerships, lasting from one to eight months, consisting of one Brazilian, who was pared with three speakers of Spanish, and another Brazilian who interacted with four speakers of English. Data were generated through a questionnaire applied to the Brazilian participants, recordings of interactions (predominantly internet chats), journals, e-mails exchanged among the participants, research reports of the Brazilian participants (who were involved in undergraduate research), narratives and a final interview. A primary activity system was structured considering a prototypical teletandem interaction and in the triangulation of data other fourteen different activity systems, specific to each participant and partnership, were characterized and analyzed. Based on the precepts of activity theory we understand that the variables that influence the continuity and discontinuity of the partnerships are related to: (i) a well structured Teletandem Community with professors, mediators or monitors available to assist and prepare the participants, giving support, guidelines... (Complete abstract click eletronic access below)

Writing has increasingly been emphasised in EFL classrooms in recent years, and Korea is no exception to this trend. The literature indicates that L2 writers experience language problems and attempt to solve them while converting their thoughts into another language. At the moment when learners struggle with a linguistic feature, they become aware of their lack of linguistic knowledge, and try to resolve the problem either by employing their own previously acquired knowledge sources, or by trying to access external knowledge sources. This problem-solving process may occur repeatedly during the L2 writing process. The aims of the current research are threefold: first, it investigates what Korean university learners of English notice while they are writing in L2; second, it attempts to examine what variables are related to and affect learners' noticing during the L2 problem-solving process and; third, the knowledge sources employed by learners when they face language problems are analysed. In order to achieve these aims, 108 English major students were recruited from three high ranked universities in Korea; think-aloud protocols and stimulated-recall interviews comprised the primary means of data collection. All participants were asked to do a writing task in L2 and to verbalise their thoughts while producing written text. Building on the data gathered from the writing task, stimulated recall interviews were carried out in order to identify the sources of knowledge employed to resolve language problems. The results of quantitative data analysis showed that the 108 participants in this study noticed approximately five language problems while writing an L2 text for 20 minutes, and verbally expressed many more lexical episodes than grammatical episodes. Regarding the relations between learner-related variables and noticing during the L2 writing process, previous study abroad experience and L2 proficiency affected learners' noticing. It was also found that L2-based verbal working memory had an effect when learners notice language problems in L2 text production, while L1-based verbal working memory had no effect. Moreover, qualitative data analysis indicated that the participants employed various types of knowledge sources in order to solve lexical or grammatical problems. It was found that both explicit linguistic knowledge sources, such as previously acquired L1-L2 translation word pairs, aspects of word knowledge (i.e., form, meaning, or use), episodic memory or analogy, and implicit knowledge sources, such as intuition, were used during the L2 problem-solving process. Based on these findings, possible implications for L2 writing teaching are discussed, stressing the importance of providing many writing opportunities for students, and suggestions for future research are presented.