Thesis (M.A.T.) -- School for International Training, 2006. / Advisor --Bonnie Mennell Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed on June 27, 2007) Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80)

abstract: The purpose of this experimental study was to investigate the effects of textual and visual annotations on Spanish listening comprehension and vocabulary acquisition in the context of an online multimedia listening activity. 95 students who were enrolled in different sections of first year Spanish classes at a community college and a large southwestern university were randomly assigned to one of four versions of an online multimedia listening activity that contained textual and visual annotations of several key words. Students then took a comprehension and vocabulary posttest and a survey to measure cognitive load and general attitudes towards the program. Results indicated that textual annotations had a significant positive effect on listening comprehension and that visual annotations had a significant positive effect on how successful students felt. No statistically significant differences were found for other variables. Participants also reported positive attitudes towards vocabulary annotations and expressed a desire to see more annotations during multimedia listening activities of this type. These findings provide further evidence of the impact that multimedia may have on language acquisition. These findings have implications for multimedia design and for future research. Language listening activities should include a variety of vocabulary annotations that may help students to understand what they hear and to help them learn new vocabulary. Further research is needed outside of the laboratory, in the online and increasingly-mobile language learning environment in order to align the research with the environment in which many students currently study. The incorporation of motivation into multimedia learning theory and cognitive load should be explored, as well as new measures of cognitive load. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Educational Technology 2010

O trabalho apresenta reflexões sobre o processo de criação de Fábrica de Calcinha, pesquisa artística realizada pela autora com o objetivo de explorar a sonoridade como ativadora e norteadora da composição da cena. O processo de criação partiu da sonoridade percebida no centro da cidade de Porto Alegre. O encontro com este material foi estimulado pelo procedimento de Derivas Sonoras, das quais participaram a própria autora, um músico e um performer. Construiu-se, assim, um arquivo de objetos sonoros (Schaeffer, 1966), objetos perceptivos decodificados pela mente como um som, gravados na memória dos corpos e em dispositivos tecnológicos, e recuperados em diferentes etapas do processo de criação. A escuta se afirmou como poética de trabalho, mediando as interações que deram forma ao material cênico. Para a organização das diferentes ações cênicas (físicas, sonoras e vocais) criadas em improvisações, foi utilizado, sobretudo, um modelo de partitura cênica desenvolvido pelo encenador e compositor Heiner Goebbels. / The dissertation presents reflections on the process of creating Fabrica de Calcinha (Panty Factory), artistic research done by the author in order to explore the sonority as activating and guiding the composition of a scene. The creation process started from the sounds perceived in the center of Porto Alegre. We used the Dérive Sonore procedure as stimuli for this encounter, which was carried out by the author herself, a musician and a performer. We were, thus, able to build a database of sound objects (Schaeffer, 1966), perceptual objects decoded by the mind as a sound, recorded in the memory of bodies and technological devices and recovered at different stages of the creation process. The listening of the material affirmed itself as poetic work mediating the interactions that shaped the scenic material. For the organization of the different performing actions (physical, sound and vocals) created in improvisations, we primarily used a scenic music score model developed by the director and composer Heiner Goebbels.

This dissertation argues for a relational ethic of listening that emphasizes the pedagogical role of the listener as a student in dialogically hearing, producing, and responding to the other. This ethic of listening works to hear possibilities amongst differences, and to ethically account for and learn from the cultural, historical, and embodied differences of the other as they are produced relationally amongst macro-structures and micro-practices. In order to develop this ethic of listening, I pay specific attention to my solo autobiographical performance, Miles away from "The Cool," in which I present my autobiographical and musical reading of the autobiography of trumpet player Miles Davis, Miles. This performance and my research regarding the music, life story, and cultural significance of Davis functions as an example for my development of a listening centered approach to pedagogy. Listening to jazz and the music of Davis provides an approach to hearing possibilities as they are enabled and constrained by larger macro-structures and specific micro-practices. I argue this approach to listening can be extended to research regarding autobiography and geographic location. Listening to autobiography and location can enable a critical and ethical understanding of the ways history, context, and power play on bodies in jazz, autobiography, location and autobiographical performance. After explaining this relational ethic of listening in terms of autobiography and jazz, I make the case for listening as a performative act in which as listeners we are always students to the other. Performative listening is a critical communicative act that works to ethically and pedagogically hear and learn from the other. Performative listening emerges from a relational ethic of listening, and it is a productive pleasure that works to hear possibilities in and amongst differences.

Orientador: Maria Augusta Hermengarda Wurthmann Ribeiro / Banca: Norma Sandra de Almeida Ferreira / Banca: Romualdo Dias / Resumo: Esta pesquisa agrega algumas de minhas inquietações desde a graduação e outras, decorrentes da experiência docente, sobre a escuta como prática de leitura. Estas inquietações geraram o presente trabalho, que tem como objeto de estudo o processo de escuta de um texto literário como prática cultural de aprendizagem pela oralidade. Tem como objetivo geral experienciar este referido processo, com alunos de uma segunda série da E. M. "Profª Diva Marques Gouvêa", localizada em Rio Claro (SP). Para tanto, tracei como metodologia um percurso que agregou algumas características da observação participante e da pesquisa-ação, tais como a questão da observação constante, do registro e da postura metodológica de "escuta", além da abordagem da história cultural, no que diz respeito ao estudo do cotidiano, da comunidade de leitores e das práticas culturais de leitura e escuta. Privilegiamos leituras diárias do livro As aventuras de Pinóquio, de Carlo Collodi (2002). Os registros das falas dos alunos sobre a leitura do dia foram feitos por mim, em um Diário de Campo, com o auxílio de câmeras fotográfica e filmadora. O percurso teórico foi construído com base nas formulações sobre: a leitura de mundo (FREIRE, 2003); a experiência de leitura (LARROSA, 2002a; 2005); a formação da comunidade de leitores (CHARTIER, 1999); a importância da leitura dos clássicos (CALVINO, 2004; MACHADO, 2002); e a importância de se realizar uma escolarização adequada da literatura (SOARES, 2003 e outros). Como considerações finais, apresento alguns apontamentos sobre os objetivos da pesquisa, os quais considero alcançados, haja vista a descrição das atividades com os alunos e suas conquistas como leitores. As pesquisas recentes sobre a formação do leitor literário (CEALE) apontam para um problema metodológico entre a matéria literária e o ensino de leitura na escola... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research includes some of my concerns since graduation, and others resulting from the teaching experience about listening as a reading practice. These concerns led to the present work, which has, as study subject, the listening process of a literary text as a cultural practice of learning by orality. Its general objective is to experience this process, with children about seven and eight years old, from "E. M. 'Profª Diva Marques Gouvêa'", located in Rio Claro (SP). For this, I plotted as methodology a route with some features of the participant observation and action research, such as the constant observation, the record and the methodological listening posture issues, as well as the cultural history approach in terms of the everyday life study, the readers' community and the cultural practices of reading and listening. We focused in daily readings of the book The Pinocchio's Adventures, by Carlo Collodi (2002). I made the records of the students' speech on the reading of the day, in a Field Diary, with the aid of a photographic camera and camcorder. The theoretical route was based on the formulations of: the reading of world (FREIRE, 2003), the reading experience (Larrosa, 2002, 2005), the formation of the readers' community (CHARTIER, 1999), the importance of classics reading (Calvino, 2004; MACHADO, 2002), and the importance of conducting a proper education literature (Soares, 2003 and others). As final comments, I show some notes on the research objectives, which I consider as accomplished, regarding the description of activities with students and their achievements as readers. The recent researches about the literary reader's formation (CEALE) point to a methodological problem between the literary field and the reading teach in school. My research reinforced a suggestion, also of methodological nature, which may help other people to think what would... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Vårt mål med detta kandidatarbete var att tillsammans med en rhizomatisk och med en ljudteoretisk synvinkel utforska och förverkliga alternativa sätt att gestalta ljud. Vi ville både ifrågasätta våra egna förutfattade meningar och den generella uppfattningen om audiell interaktion. Vi har tagit inspiration från Michel Chions analysprocess lyssnar modus och teorin synchresis för att realisera en utgångspunkt och en grundpelare vilket löper genom hela arbetet. Våra teorier och tester har skett på både ett reaktionärt och proaktivt sätt då vi både har producerat prototyper utifrån förstudier och genomfört tester med prototyperna i sökande efter externa åsikter. Testerna genomfördes genom att vi bjöd in utomstående att delta i undersökningen och på ett så naturligt sätt som möjligt utfört kvalitativa studier i form av intervjuer och observation för att tillsammans utforskat de semantiska beskaffenheter ljud besitter. Resultatet av vår undersökning brottas med människans biologiska förutsättningar. Att avkontextualisera ljud helt är ett åliggande som anses vara en utopi som vi i undersökningen har behandlat. Hur våra situeringar och våra källor har påverkat vår granskning, vårt skrivande och vårt prövande är en interpretation som vi diskuterar i slutet av undersökningen. / Our goal with this Bachelor Thesis was to explore and realize alternative ways of synthesizing sound, together with a rhizomatic and an audio-theoretical point of view. We both question our preconceived assumptions and the general perception of audio interaction. We have been inspired by Michel Chion's analysis process, modes of listening and the theory of synchresis to realize a starting point and a mainstay that runs throughout the thesis. Our theories and tests have taken place in both a reactionary and proactive manner as we have both produced prototypes based on preliminary studies and conducted tests with prototypes in search of external opinions. The tests were conducted by inviting third parties to participate in the survey and, in as natural a way as possible, conducted qualitative studies in the form of interviews and observation to jointly explore the semantic characteristics sound possesses. The result of our study is in conflict with the human biological conditions. To decontextualise audio completely is an issue that is considered an utopia and something that we have taken in consideration in the survey. At the end of the survey we will discuss if our situated mind and our references have influenced our scrutiny, our writing and our testing.

[pt] A escuta analítica não se restringe à palavra, mas inclui o corpo que traz as marcas de uma história que se mantém viva e atuante. A entonação, o ritmo, as pausas, o silêncio, o olhar revelam o que muitas vezes escapa ao discurso. O encontro analista-analisando possibilita que as impressões gravadas no psiquismo, a partir das sensações corporais sentidas numa fase anterior à palavra, sejam desveladas e significadas. A escuta sensível do analista dessas múltiplas expressões corpóreo-afetivas representa uma importante ampliação do campo de investigação na experiência analítica. A reflexão desenvolvida neste trabalho parte do reconhecimento da dimensão corporal que é fundamental em qualquer análise, mas que ganhou ênfase, principalmente, a partir da clínica com pacientes que apresentam dificuldade de expressão pela via representacional. / [en] Analytical listening goes beyond words. It includes the body that shows traces of a history that is kept alive and active. Intonation, rhythm, pauses, silence and looks may reveal more than speech. The analyst/patient meeting enables psychic printed impressions – from bodily sensations felt during a phase prior to word - to be revealed and implied. The analyst sensible listening to these multiple affective bodily expressions represents an important enlargement in the investigation field of the analytical experience. The reflection developed in this work stems from the bodily dimension that is fundamental in any analysis, but which has been emphasized mainly when treating patients who have difficulty expressing themselves orally.

Notre thèse décrit et analyse les conditions esthétiques, matérielles et idéelles qui rendent possibles les agencements sonores du cinéma contemporain. Au cours des 30 dernières années, le raffinement des outils de manipulation du son, l’importance grandissante du concepteur sonore et le nouvel espace de cohabitation des sons (favorisé par le Dolby et la diffusion multicanal) sont des facteurs qui ont transformé la création et l’écoute du son au cinéma. Ces transformations révèlent un nouveau paradigme : le mixage s’est graduellement imposé comme le geste perceptif et créateur qui rend compte de la sensibilité contemporaine. Notre thèse explore les effets de la pensée du mixage (qui procède par résonance, simultanéité, dosage et modulation) sur notre écoute et notre compréhension de l'expérience cinématographique. À l'aide de paroles de concepteurs sonores (Murch, Beaugrand, Thom, Allard…), de textes théoriques sur le son filmique (Cardinal, Chion, Campan), de documentaires sur des musiciens improvisateurs (Lussier, Glennie, Frith), de films de fiction à la dimension sonore affirmée (Denis, Van Sant), de textes philosophiques sur la perception (Leibniz, James, Straus, Szendy…), d'analyses du dispositif sonore cinématographique, notre thèse rend audibles des tensions, des récurrences, de nouveaux agencements, des problèmes actuels et inactuels qui forgent et orientent l'écoute du théoricien, du créateur et de l'auditeur. En interrogeant la dimension sonore de la perception, de l’action, de l’espace et de la pensée, cette thèse a pour objectif de modifier la façon dont on écoute, crée et pense le son au cinéma. / This thesis describes and analyzes the esthetic, material and conceptual conditions that make the acoustic structures of contemporary cinema possible. The refinement of tools used for manipulating sound, the growing importance the sound designer and the emergence of a new space for sounds to coexist in (brought on by Dolby and multichannel sound systems) are factors that, over the past 30 years, have transformed the way we work with and listen to sound in film. These transformations reveal a new paradigm: mixing gradually imposed itself as the creative and perceptual act capable of accounting for our contemporary sensibility. This thesis explores the effects of the “thought process of mixing” (which functions by resonance, simultaneity, dosage and modulation) on the way we hear and understand the cinematographic experience. Working from the accounts of sound designers (Murch, Beaugrand, Thom Allard…), theoretical texts on film sound (Cardinal, Chion, Campam), documentaries on improvisational musicians (Lussier, Glennie, Frith), fiction films with a acute acoustic sensibility (Denis, Van Sant), philosophical texts on perception (Leibniz, James, Straus, Szendy…) and analyses of the cinematographic sound apparatus, this thesis renders audible the tensions, the recurrences, the structural connections and the problems, old and new, that forge and direct the theoretician, the artist and the auditor’s way of listening. By questioning the auditory dimension of perception, action, space and thought, this thesis aims to change the way we hear, create and think cinema.

Buscando explorar os potenciais semióticos que o som e a música têm produzido em seu encontro com a saúde, este trabalho intenta acompanhar a produção de sentido em torno das expressões sonoras no contexto da clínica em saúde mental. Tomando o corpo e o sentido a partir de Spinoza e Deleuze, situamos a experiência estética diante da cognição humana, decompondo procedimentos e relações expressivas que ocorrem em torno do som e seus trajetos sensíveis no corpo e na consciência. Como método, utilizamos o “diário do imaginário”, uma cartografia de imagens da consciência que mapeia de modo estético a complexidade da experiência sonora. Através de pequenas ficções, orquestramos relações expressivas inspiradas na prática clínica e sonoro-musical do autor, buscando envolver na linguagem a textura vibrátil da experiência. / Trying to explore the semiotic potential that sound and music bring to mental health attention, this research intent to follow closely the sound experience on that clinical context. Taking the concept of “body” through Spinoza and Deleuze´s philosophy, we build a connection between aesthetic experience and human cognition, decomposing the process that makes sound affect and develop through the conscious body. As a method, a few sound experiences are fictionally presented as the “Imaginary Diary”, where some expressions between sound and sense are created to express the aesthetic complexity between sound and the cognitive body. Trying to reach the closest approach, the thinking and writing make a poetical effort to express the feelings and sensorial waves that sound experience evocates.