[pt] O objeto desta dissertação é a escrita feminina, conceito que se aplica tanto a escritoras quanto a escritores. Demonstramos como as marcas desta escrita estão expressas na obra de Lygia Fagundes Telles e também em textos tanto de autoria feminina quanto masculina. O conceito escrita feminina engloba tanto a visão psicanalítica, no que se refere a experiências primordiais expressas no discurso literário, quanto a abordagem temática, que mostra como o olhar feminino difere do masculino no tratamento dado às personagens femininas, que tornam-se o foco da narrativa. Por outro lado, o pensamento pós-moderno ajuda a crítica feminista a fazer uma releitura das obras literárias. Nesse contexto, o feminino emerge como o lugar da diferença e a escrita feminina torna-se revolucionária enquanto potência discursiva, contrapondo-se à ordem vigente e possibilitando a emergência de uma voz até pouco tempo silenciada: a voz do universo feminino. Trata-se ainda de uma questão de linguagem, pois para falar sobre o novo é preciso uma nova linguagem. Por outro lado, a mudança no modo de pensar o feminino produziu, no mundo real, um padrão de comportamento libertário, que na década de 70 teve como símbolo a atriz Leila Diniz. / [en] The subject of this essay is feminine writing, a concept that can be applied to both female and male writers. We demonstrate how the characteristics of this writing are expressed in Lygia Fagundes Telles s work and also in other texts by female and male writers. The concept of feminine writing encompasses not only the psychoanalytic approach to the primordial experiences expressed in the literary discourse, but also the thematic perspective that shows how the female approach is different from the masculine in dealing with female characters, responsible for the point of view of the narrative. Also, postmodern thinking helps feminist criticism to reread literary works. In this context, the feminine emerges as the place of difference, and feminine writing becomes revolutionary as discursive potency, opposing the status quo and allowing the emergence of a voice that was previously silent: the voice of the feminine universe. This is also a question of language, because the new discourse demands a new language. Changes in ways of dealing the feminine have produced, in the real world, a pattern of libertarian behavior symbolized in the 1970s by the actress Leila Diniz.

Despite language differences, English Language Learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools are assessed by the same standardized tests of English Language Arts (ELA) skills as are their English-speaking peers. ELLs have routinely performed poorly on the New York State ELA standardized assessment. ELLs are a significant portion of the population in New York City public schools; therefore, their continued poor performance puts some of these schools at risk for closure. Guided by Thomas's and Collier's framework for understanding Dual Language Immersion programs, the purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental, archival study was to determine if significant differences in ELA standardized assessment scores exist for ELLs attending an English as a New Language (ENL) program when compared to those attending a Dual Language (DL) program. A mixed-model ANOVA (N = 24 ELLs tested in 2014, 2015, and 2016) indicated that scores increased significantly during the 3-year period, but there were no significant differences in scores for the ENL program students compared to the DL program students. An ANCOVA (N = 366 ELLs tested in 2016 evenly distributed in each program) showed that, when controlling student disability status, DL program students scored significantly higher than ENL program students. These findings formed the basis of a professional development curriculum designed to guide educators and administrators in the implementation of effective DL programs and teaching strategies to support ELLs' achievement. When supported with research-based programs in their schools, ELLs can achieve more academically, thereby fostering social change over time as more ELLs enter the workforce uniquely qualified to succeed in a diverse, global economy.

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Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy v Praze DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Daniela Theinová LIMITS AND LANGUAGES in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry "Irish poetry" is an inherently equivocal concept characterized by two fissures, one linguistic (Irish-English; standard English-Hiberno English) and the other chronological (oral-written; Old Irish-modern Irish). Central to my project is to show how this bifurcate cultural identity, prominent in Irish literature due to Ireland's history and the politicized concept of "national language," figures in poetry by Irish women of the last forty years. While I account for the significance of the hyphen in Anglo-Irish as well as in Gaelic-Irish poets, contradictory tensions are traced not only across and along the linguistic divide. In attending to the shift from feminism (Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paula Meehan, Medbh McGuckian, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) to post-feminism in Irish poetry (Biddy Jenkinson, Vona Groarke, Caitríona O'Reilly, and Aifric Mac Aodha), I illustrate the role that the border between English and Irish has played in these processes. The dissertation falls into two parts each of which consists of two chapters. Part One explores some of the ways in which poets have confronted the inherited tradition and the feminine stereotypes therein. My...