Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between parent-child interaction during shared book reading and emergent reading behaviors of 4 and 5 year old bilingual children at an international preschool in Japan. More specifically, this study examines: 1) Parental beliefs held about education and literacy learning. 2) The parental structuring of time, material, and experiences in the child's home environment. 3) Emergent reading behaviors of bilingual children during storybook reading. 4) The different types of support parents provide for their children during reading that contribute to the level of reading achievement attained by preschoolers. Qualitative case study methods were used to investigate common features of the parent-child interaction during the storybook reading and the literacy environments the child experiences. The data analysis revealed the following: The Japanese mothers in the current study supported the principle of direct teaching of literacy skills and did not support the interdependency of reading and writing even though they are highly-educated and from middle and upper class families. The mediating styles and strategies they employed during the storybook reading are reflective of their beliefs. The findings reveal that the method of literacy learning is valued differently by sociocultural context, where diverse contexts adhere different values to the educational process, its immediate and long-range goals, and the kind of adults a community hopes these children will become. The results of this study indicated that storybook reading could be fostered through a most routine of family activities. Parental involvement relates the text and its background knowledge to a child's personal experience of the world since reading skills, here, are developed in the course of the reading itself, assistance from the mother by means of 'scaffolding' and through connecting the story's elements to a child's own life events. The bilingual preschoolers also developed emergent literacy strategies as a result of being immersed in a print-rich environment where they can interact with print in meaningful and purposeful ways. The results may offer suggestions for presenting a developmentally and culturally appropriate literacy-learning environment for preschoolers who are learning English outside of English-speaking countries. / 2031-01-01

O processo de alfabetização de uma pessoa, ainda nos dias atuais, é algo intrigante, fascinante e, por vezes, misterioso. Inúmeras são as publicações a respeito do tema, porém novos questionamentos surgem e mobilizam novas investigações, novas hipóteses. A presente pesquisa foi inicialmente motivada pelo intrigante questionamento: crianças que convivem diariamente com suas famílias tem maior facilidade de aprendizagem durante o processo de alfabetização? Para tentar respondê-lo, o caminho percorrido foi o de confrontar-se com a realidade de uma sala de alfabetização diferente: situada numa instituição filantrópica, sem fins lucrativos, com crianças de cinco e seis anos em situação de risco. Algumas dessas crianças permaneciam na instituição durante a semana e só iam para suas casas aos finais de semana. Outras apenas passavam o dia na escola, iam para suas casas à noite. Esta instituição foi responsável por suprir as necessidades dessas crianças em diversos âmbitos: social, cultural, de saúde, de alimentação, de moradia, de segurança e o mais importante: no âmbito educacional, fornecendo os elementos necessários para o favorecimento do processo de alfabetização da criança. O contato com essas crianças teve duração de um ano letivo, suficiente para visualizar ações e até estabelecer algumas relações. Na tentativa de compreender aquilo que foi observado, buscou-se o aporte teórico fornecido pelas publicações de Emilia Ferreiro, Ana Teberosky e Magda Soares, no que diz respeito ao processo de alfabetização especificamente e, para compreender o conceito de família, buscou-se aporte em Philippe Áries, que demonstra a historicidade deste conceito através de uma análise iconográfica e Françoise Héritier, que procura delinear o conceito sob a ótica da Antropologia, desmistificando o mito da família desestruturada, assim como Lévi-Strauss e As estruturas elementares do parentesco. Para tratar da interação entre as duas instituições, o principal autor foi Vygotsky. Após alguns encontros e desencontros, foi possível estabelecer a relação entre os dois conceitos e até encontrar um novo elemento: as funções que a família desempenha. Sem pretensão de esgotar o tema o presente trabalho sugere novos olhares e questionamentos para a o tema da relação família-escola. / Ones literacy learning process, yet in our days, is something intriguing, fascinating and, sometimes, mysterious. There are a vast number of publications on this theme, however new questionings arise and mobilize new researches, new hypothesis. This research was initially motivated by the intriguing questioning: Do children who daily live together with their families have more ease of learning during their literacy learning process? To answer this, the chosen path was to face the reality of a different classroom: located in a non profit charity institution, composed by children between five and six years old, on risk conditions. Some of them stayed at the institution during the whole week and came back home on weekends. Others stayed during the day and came back home at night. This institution was responsible for supplying their needs on many scopes: social, cultural, health, living, security and the most important: the educational scope, providing them with the necessary elements for their literacy learning favoring. The one school year length interaction with these children was enough to identify many actions and even establish some relations. In attempt to understand what was observed, theoretical support found on publications from Emilia Ferreiro, Ana Teberosky and Magda Soares, was sought, specifically in what relates to literacy learning process. Moreover, to comprehend the familys concept, support was sought on Phillippe Áries, which demonstrates this concepts historicity through an iconographic analysis, and on Françoise Héritier, which delineates the concept under the Anthropologys view, demystifying the myth of unstructured family, as well as Lévi-Strauss and The elementary structures of kinship. To handle with the interaction among these two institutions, the main author was Vygotsky. After some matches and mismatches, it was possible to establish the relation among the two concepts and even find a new element: the functions that the family performs. This present work suggests new views and questionings on the family-school relation theme, without the pretension to exhaust it.

The purpose of this post-qualitative study was to examine the rhizomatic functioning of youth’s engagements with literacy in a 7th grade English Language Arts classroom. I argued normed expectations of students’ engagement with literacy in schools imposes hegemonic control over students’ literacy learning, thus devaluing students’ in-the-moment, affective engagement. Rhizomatic theory was used to explore the ways students aligned to or veered from expected literacy norms as conceptualized through schooled literacy. The study took place during one academic semester between January-June in a New York City public middle school in Harlem. Data was produced through observations, exchanges (informal and formal interviews; verbal and written conversations), artifacts, and a researcher journal. A rhizomatic analysis was conducted to first identify the ideal expectation for literacy learning in the classroom as established through national, state, and local entities and then to follow deviations, or lines of flight, from these expected norms. Particular attention was paid to networked assemblages of participants (human and non-human) and the affective intensities, or desires that produce changes to an event or interaction, produced through these networks. The analysis was extended to consider these assemblages and affective intensities in light of the normed expectations for literacy learning, thus moving the rhizomatic analysis to what might become possible by examining difference. Findings are presented through the lines of flight and affective intensities that were produced through students’ engagements with literacy learning. These included forms of play, spontaneous peer-to-peer assistance, visceral response, and enacted agency. I discuss these intensities as unsanctioned engagement and explore how sanctioning such engagement provides more equitable opportunities for students to actively interact and achieve success as literacy learners. I argue such engagement is inherent to who youth are and who they are becoming. Because of this, how educators and researchers understand literacy learning and one’s engagement with literacy is extremely important for youth’s experiences and success in schooling. I conclude with implications for practice and research that work to actively transform conceptions of literacy instruction, theory, and research.

Orientadora: Helen Castro Silva Casarin / Banca: Juan Carlos Fernández-Molina / Banca: Ariadne Chloe Mary Furnival / Banca: Luciana de Souza Gracioso / Banca: Carlos Cândido de Almeida / Resumo: Contexto: Na realidade brasileira atual, tem ficado a cargo das universidades sanar ou reduzir as deficiências dos níveis de ensino fundamental e médio, o desconhecimento do uso ético da informação e a questão do plágio acadêmico. Diante desses problemas no cenário acadêmico brasileiro, é evidente a importância do desenvolvimento da Competência Informacional, em especial, sua dimensão ética. Este trabalho se propõe a verificar o engajamento do bibliotecário para enfrentar os problemas da falta de conhecimentos sobre uso ético da informação e do plágio acadêmico, por meio de ações que promovam o desenvolvimento da dimensão ética da Competência Informacional, com foco no uso ético da informação, propiciando aos usuários e aos próprios bibliotecários, um olhar mais crítico sobre a questão. Objetivos: O objetivo geral foi verificar como os bibliotecários e suas unidades de informação, em dez universidades brasileiras melhor classificadas no Ranking Universitário Folha (RUF), têm preparado as suas respectivas comunidades para o uso ético da informação e para o combate ao plágio no ambiente acadêmico, sob a ótica da Competência Informacional. Pretendia-se, assim, determinar se os bibliotecários das instituições selecionadas estão preparados para atuar em ações específicas de Competência Informacional, em particular aquelas relacionadas à sua dimensão ética; identificar quais ações têm sido desenvolvidas pelas bibliotecas selecionadas; levantar subsídios, que possam direcionar as in... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Context: In Brazil today, universities are in charge of offsetting or reducing primary and secondary school weaknesses, as well as of compensating for the lack of awareness concerning the ethical use of information and academic plagiarism. With these problems in the Brazilian, the importance of developing information literacy seems obvious, especially in its ethical dimension. The present study aims at examining librarian engagement to face problems regarding the lack of knowledge about the ethical use of information and academic plagiarism. This would be done through actions that promote the ethical dimension of the information literacy, focusing on the ethical use of information and providing users and librarians with a more critical view. Objectives: The main objective of our research was to verify, from the information literacy perspective, how librarians and their information units prepare their academic communities for the ethical use of information and the fight against plagiarism. The study was conducted in ten of the best qualified Brazilian universities on the University ranking Folha (RUF). In this way, our aims were to determine whether these librarians were prepared for action in the information literacy field, especially concerning the ethical use of information; to identify which actions were developed by the selected Brazilian university libraries; to gather evidence that could be useful to guide information literacy initiatives launched by Brazilian universit... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Resumen: Contexto: En la realidad brasileña actual, las universidades se han encargado de subsanar o reducir las deficiencias en los niveles de enseñanza primaria y secundaria, el desconocimiento del uso ético de la información y la cuestión del plagio académico. Con estos problemas en el panorama académico brasileño, surge la importancia de desarrollar la Alfabetización Informacional, en especial, su dimensión ética. El presente trabajo pretende analizar el compromiso del bibliotecario para enfrentar los problemas relacionados con la falta de conocimientos sobre el uso ético de la información y del plagio académico, mediante acciones que promuevan el desarrollo de la dimensión ética de la Alfabetización Informacional. En concreto, en lo que respecta al uso ético de la información, propiciando a los usuarios y a los propios bibliotecarios una visión más crítica sobre dicha cuestión. Objetivos: El objetivo general consistió en verificar de qué forma los bibliotecarios y sus unidades de información, en diez universidades brasileñas de las mejor clasificadas en el ranking universitario Folha (RUF), han preparado a sus respectivas comunidades académicas para hacer un uso ético de la información y combatir el plagio en el ambiente académico, bajo la perspectiva de la Alfabetización Informacional. De este modo, se pretendía: determinar si los bibliotecarios de las instituciones seleccionadas están preparados para actuar en acciones específicas de Alfabetización Informacional, en especial a... (Resumen completo clicar acceso eletrônico abajo) / Doutor

Literacy is about the transformation from written text to practice. Our language is one of the most important tools we possess to acquire knowledge in school regardless of the subject. Words are linked to different topics and can have different meanings, depending on the context in which they are being used. There are quite a lot of studies about subject areas in the theoretical subjects, but in the practical ones, like domestic science, it is hard to find any relevant research. To examine how creation of meaning takes place within the subject area of domestic science, an ethnographic observation study is implemented in this essay. The study is based on three lessons of domestic science. The results of this study show that knowledge specific to the subject area is needed during the lesson when the students read the recipe in order for them to know what to do next. The results also show that it doesn´t matter that the teacher walks the students through the recipe in the beginning of the lesson. The problems occur when the student must perform the task of following the instructions themselves.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-09-05Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:28:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rizzardo_jcc_me_rcla.pdf: 483309 bytes, checksum: f8522aa6d0dbe113437ef7b47ad6f49e (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Esta pesquisa focaliza o desempenho de alunos do Ensino Fundamental, em leitura e produção de textos, e a visão dos professores sobre a leitura e a escrita. O interesse pelo tema surgiu da necessidade de respostas às indagações geradas, durante o exercício do magistério, e da falta de intimidade dos alunos com a língua materna, mais especificamente com a leitura e a escrita de textos. São examinados os desempenhos das crianças em compreensão de leitura e em produção escrita de texto narrativo e observadas as manifestações dos professores com o intuito de verificar concepções e práticas realizadas com leitura e escrita de textos. Participaram desta pesquisa 108 crianças de 1ª a 4ª séries do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública do interior paulista e 14 professores desta mesma instituição. Os dados foram analisados e comparados à luz do referencial teórico que embasou esta pesquisa. Os resultados revelaram dificuldades tanto dos alunos em se apropriar da leitura e da escrita quanto dos professores em falar sobre sua prática e em criar situações de aprendizagem para que os alunos possam construir seus conhecimentos. / The focus of this research is to verify the performance of Elementary School students in reading and production of written texts, analyzing the vision of teachers about the action of reading and writing as well. The interest in this came of the need for answers to the questions that were generated during our teaching career about the lack of intimacy of students with their mother tongue, more specifically, with reading and writing texts. The performances of the children in understanding of reading and written production of text narrative and observed the manifestations of the professors with intention are examined to verify practical conceptions and carried through with reading and writing of texts. Series of Basic Ensino of a public school of the São Paulo interior and 14 professors of this had participated of this research 108 children of 1ª 4ª same institution. The data had been analyzed and compared with the light of the theoretical referencial that based this research. The results had in such a way disclosed difficulties of the pupils in if appropriating of the reading and the writing, how much to the one of the professors in speaking on practical its and creating learning situations so that the pupils can construct its knowledge.

This thesis describes a qualitative mixed-methods study carried out in a vocational-technical secondary school with second-chance adolescent learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a peripheral area of Israel. The learner population was characterized by complex, socio-economically disadvantaged family backgrounds and a high rate of learning disabilities. The study investigated the effects of a Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) intervention to support the development of basic EFL literacy skills by students who lacked solid foundational English skills. The intervention provided an interactive educational software application, The English Club™, on iPod Touch devices to scaffold learning and review of letter sounds and rules of English, integrate them into words and texts, and practice reading, writing and comprehension. Learners developed literacy skills depending on the level they reached in the application. The English Club follows a scaffolded Multi-Sensory Structured Language (MSL) approach, adapting for struggling EFL learners the Hickey Multi-Sensory Method (Combley, 2001), developed by Kathleen Hickey of the British Dyslexia Institute. Printed books containing the material complemented the use of the MALL. The English teachers at the school chose the learners who participated and determined how to integrate the intervention into their English classrooms. An investigation of the teachers' roles was included in the study. The methodology was primarily action research with case studies of individual learners and teachers. Pre-intervention and post-intervention data on learners' English knowledge, skills, attitudes and opinions and on teachers' attitudes and opinions about use of this MALL intervention was generated via skills assessments and semi-structured interviews. As a participant-teacher-observer, I observed the intervention's use in classes and in sessions with individual students. Changes in skills, attitudes and opinions were analyzed in the framework of Vygotsky's theories of language acquisition and the Zone of Proximal Development as elaborated in Scaffolding Theory. Theories of motivation, literacy and second language acquisition, and how struggling learners experience these, have provided additional lenses for analysis. My goals in performing this study were to understand in depth the whole picture of the intervention, both its effects on students' English skills and attitudes, and the factors that shaped these outcomes. The study's findings contribute to an understanding of the ways in which delivering a scaffolded MSL approach to literacy education via MALL can contribute to addressing the world crisis in literacy acquisition, and issues that must be addressed for this type of intervention to be effective. Findings showed that learners who actively engaged in the intervention made significant progress in their English literacy skills, increased their confidence in their ability to learn English and thus their willingness to engage in learning, and demonstrated increased awareness of the connection between their own investment of effort and learning. This success was shaped by many factors, including variation among individual learner profiles, the degree of teachers' support for the intervention, increasing students' motivation to invest effort, minimizing disruptions to the students' learning routine, and maximizing access to charged, working devices and to books. The individual MALL delivery platform enabled an untrained, inexperienced but committed teacher to provide the benefits of this scaffolded method, appropriate to her learners' needs, in multi-level English classrooms and to provide a solution for students returning from extended absences to catch up with missed classwork. Recommendations for policy and practice include use of such scaffolded MSL MALL applications with struggling language learners in conjunction with printed materials and closely accompanied by committed teachers, who do not have to be highly trained in specialized methods to support learning by struggling students. Schools engaging in such interventions need to ensure that the devices will be fully available for use during learning hours, minimize disruptions to the class schedule, and maximize students' use of the MALL app and books in class, during free time at school, and at home. If necessary, extrinsic rewards should be offered to overcome students' learned helplessness.

This thesis explored Gypsies' and Travellers' perceptions of the value and importance of literacy to themselves and their communities. It examined the political and social factors that affected the extent and availability of literacy provision for adult Gypsies and Travellers and their level of participation. It focused on how Gypsies' and Travellers' levels of literacy impacted on their ability to engage effectively with authority. The research focused on two rural and one urban authority in the South of England but also drew on information from neighbouring authorities and Ireland. A qualitative constructivist epistemology was adopted in which ethnography was the main research tool. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and informal conversations with Gypsies and Travellers, public officials and local politicians, a survey of adult education providers, observation of sundry national and local meetings, participant observation and analysis of the discourse and dialogue of two official forums and data from a variety of sources including television programmes and press reports. The research found that Gypsies and Travellers attached little value to textual literacy, did not view literacy as important to economic success and did not perceive the ability to read and write as contributing to their status or self esteem. Other skills were valued more highly. These attitudes challenge dominant education and development discourses which perceive textual literacy as essential to economic achievement, self esteem and status. The research also highlighted a vacuum in literacy and education policy and provision for adult Gypsies and Travellers who were largely invisible in post-school policy documents, even in those purporting to address equality issues. There was no targeted provision in the three authorities, only a few short term projects elsewhere and little interest among providers. Although mainstream provision was available to Gypsy and Travellers as to all adults, those who wished to learn preferred to teach themselves or be taught by friends and family. The research drew on current theories of discourse, power and control. Primary and secondary Discourses impacted on two areas, the absence of educational opportunities for adult Gypsies and Travellers and on their communicative practices and agency. The lack of targeted literacy provision for Gypsies and Travellers was not accidental but a result of deep seated negative attitudes constructed and maintained through the secondary Discourses of dominant groups and bureaucratic institutions. Interviews and observations revealed that language and discourse was more important to Gypsies and Travellers than the ability to read and write, particularly when communicating privately or publicly with authorities. In these contexts, their own primary discourses, learned through home and community practices, were insufficient. The Gypsies and Travellers who were formally educated and were bi-discoursal were able to operate within secondary institutional Discourses. Though others had life experiences which gave them some understanding of the Discourses of power and bureaucracy, they were not able to communicate or challenge as effectively. The research critiques current models of literacy provision for adults. Though aspects of the models can address specific literacy requirements in specific situations, none of the models including New Literacy Studies and critical literacies, sufficiently address the need to become bi-discoursal or develop the agency to affect decisions controlling their lives. Gypsies and Travellers fear formal education will lead to loss of identity, acculturation and assimilation, but without it they may lose what they seek to preserve. Different communities have different aspirations and face different tensions in different circumstances and each will make decisions accordingly. This research on Gypsies' and Travellers' perceptions and uses of literacy provides new insights into complex tensions and contradictions at both an empirical and theoretical level.

This thesis reports on a case study of the creative writing of A Level English Language students. The research took place over the two year course and involved five students from one class in an 11 – 18, secondary grammar school in the South East of England. The students were aged 16 at the beginning of the case study. There were two girls and three boys, and all from families with little or no tradition of going to university. The research was based on the theoretical framework of the New Literacy Studies (The New London Group, 1996), where literacy is seen as a socially constructed phenomenon. Genres, discourse and creative voices were researched through discourse analysis toolkit to reflect and interrogate the socially constructed literacy event: the two pieces of coursework each participant produced. Additional data was also included to present a kaleidoscopic deep study of the literacy practice through using interviews, domain-mapping and questionnaires. It is also a reflexive study as it has built on findings from earlier studies for the EdD course, and also projects forwards to the continuing tensions in the teaching of English. Although Creative Writing is now an accredited A Level for examination from 2014, and is a valued component of the A Level English Language, in the earlier years of secondary education students have had limited exposure to creative writing. This is due to the effect of the National Curriculum that has shaped the generation of this case study. Creative writing has been marginalised and devalued within the GCSE (paradoxically since the QCA, 2007 Programme of Study for English put greater emphasis on creativity), where there is limited creative writing opportunity: teachers select a title from a possible six which their students respond to. The Department for Education's draft new National Curriculum has a brief reference to creativity in a list where grammar and accuracy are prioritised. There is a tension in what policy statements, including stakeholders such as Ofsted, say about creative writing and what students experience in delivery of the syllabus driven by the National Curriculum. There is also the anomaly that many students have a range of literacy practices as they operate in increasingly multimodal literacies that schools do not recognise as writing experiences. At present, there is much written about creative writing in primary schools and in Higher Education; but the creative writing of young adults following an A Level course is not visible in policy documents, nor the focus of academic research (with a few exceptions such as Dymoke, 2010, and Bluett, 2010). Therefore, it is an area that is worth exploring. The original contribution to knowledge that the thesis provides is a definition of the literacy practice of the creative writing of A Level English Language students. The thesis, through the case study, identifies the range of influences the students draw on and, in particular, the evidence of intertextuality. How the students develop and shape their creative writing through different creative voices, building on the intertextual influences is presented through the lenses of multiple and multimodal data-sets. In conclusion, a pedagogical model is offered for practitioners who perceive echoes with their own educational contexts.

Orientador: Maria Regina Guarnieri / Banca: Dirce Charara Monteiro / Banca: Luciana Maria Giovanni / Resumo: Com um olhar mais atento às práticas de alfabetização, no 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental, retratou-se neste estudo a atuação de duas professoras alfabetizadoras com tempos de docência diferenciados. Para tanto, a presente dissertação teve como objetivo investigar e analisar as práticas de alfabetização realizadas por uma professora iniciante e uma professora experiente, considerando os elementos da gestão da matéria e da classe presentes na interação das aulas de alfabetização. O referencial teórico baseou-se em autores como Gimeno Sacristán e Gauthier que fundamentam a prática docente, enquanto Huberman, Gonçalves, Marcelo Garcia, Guarnieri e Lima trouxeram subsídios para tratar das fases da docência e às práticas de alfabetização tiveram por base os estudos de Soares e Carvalho. A pesquisa qualitativa, de base empírica, foi desenvolvida numa escola estadual do interior do Estado de São Paulo, norteada pela seguinte problemática: Como as professoras alfabetizadoras iniciante e experiente realizam suas práticas de alfabetização nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental? Quais são os elementos da gestão da matéria e da classe que estão presentes na interação das aulas de alfabetização? Utilizou-se como instrumentos de coleta de dados a observação das aulas realizadas pelas professoras iniciante e experiente, num período de três meses e realizou-se uma entrevista semiestruturada. Os dados obtidos foram organizados em três eixos temáticos: A natureza do processo de alfabetização; A gestão da matéria e os aspectos significativos para alfabetizar; A gestão da classe e o estilo de alfabetizar. A partir de uma análise comparativa, os resultados revelaram que o tempo de docência acaba influenciando no encaminhamento da gestão da matéria, mas não é um fator determinante na gestão da classe, sendo que entre as práticas de alfabetização da iniciante e... / Abstract: With a closer look at literacy practices in the 1st grade of elementary school, this study portrayed the performance of two literacy teachers with different teaching times. For this purpose, the present work aims to investigate and analyze literacy practices carried out by a beginner teacher and an experienced teacher, considering the elements of the management of subject and class present in the interaction of literacy classes. The theoretical framework was based on authors such as Gimeno Sacristán and Gauthier underlying the teaching practice, while Huberman, Gonçalves, Marcelo Garcia, Guarnieri and Lima brought subsidies to address the stages of teaching and literacy practices were based on studies by Soares and Carvalho. The qualitative research, in an empirical basis, was developed in a public school in the city of São Paulo state, guided by the following problems: How the beginner and experienced literacy teachers perform their literacy practices in the early years of elementary school? What are the elements of the management of subject and class that are present in the interaction of literacy classes? It was used as data collection instruments the class observation of a beginner and an experienced teacher for a period of three months and held a semi-structured interview. Data were organized into three main themes: The nature of the literacy process; The management of subject and the significant aspects of literacy; The management of the class and style of literacy. From a comparative analysis, the results revealed that the teaching time is up influenced in directing the management of the subject, but it is not a determining factor in class management, and between beginner literacy practices and experienced for over differences, than similarities. It was noted how complex is the theme of literacy, which confirms the hypothesis in this research, that is, both teachers had difficulties to teach... / Mestre