In a world with an increasing flow of written information online and offline, the demand for automatic translation, simplification and summarization technology is growing. The tool StilLett uses several lexical and semantic rules to automatically simplify text, shortening the time from original text to simplified text compared to manual simplification. Four of the simplification types were evaluated in this study, using three different eye tracking measures; total dwell time, number of regressions, and average fixation duration. No statistically significant differences were found for any of the simplification types when compared to the corresponding original sentences, indicating that for this population the difficulty of the sentences was roughly the same.

The subject of reading and writing difficulties has been a research object sin- ce the 40's and it ́s come a long way in what should happen and how to act however, it is still children who do not get the help that is needed in pre- school and pre-school classes. This study has sought to identify the difficulty of educators and teachers to detect early-stage problems. Children with reading and writing difficulties do not only have difficulty in school, but the other social interaction with other children / adults can be af- fected. This topic can create exclusion and bullying if it is not handled properly. When will these problems be discovered and by whom, this study shows how the preschool can / should work with reading and writing difficulties and what problems it is for the educators to do this. The study of this study has been conducted through a questionnaire and per- sonal dissociations with special educators, pre-school teachers and pre-school educators. A total of seven people were interviewed and they worked with children between three to six years, interviews were conducted in an area where the educators felt safe and comfortable.The study includes privacy and confiden- tiality and all names are fictive. Interviews were played in and then written clean and all the answers in the study were categorized and you could see that the special educators, pre- school teachers and pre-school educators worked in accordance with the Bornholm Model, Karlstadsmodellen and Fonomix. It has emerged from the study that it is communication with images and signs that is the strategy that the preschoolers primarily use to include, develop and communicate with the children. Educators highlight some problems in preschool to handle these issues. The lack of tools is often mentioned, but they work with what they can and it me- ans work with dumbbells, rhymes, frames and songs. Knowledge about this subject is substandard according to the survey with the educators, even time is part of the problems. Some have discovered shortcomings in reading and writing in children wit- hout taking any action. A problem that is becoming increasingly current is how to detect reading and writing difficulties-in children whose parents do not speak the Swedish lan- guage, and here the special educators, pre-school teachers and pre-school educators must rely on the parents. The survey shows that there are shortcomings in education, the lack of tools and the time to deal with the problems is often mentioned in this study. / Ämnet läs och skrivsvårigheter har varit ett forskningsobjekt sedan 40-50- talet och man har kommit långt i vad som bör ske och hur man ska agera, men ändå så är det barn som inte får den hjälp som behövs i förskolan och förskoleklass. Denna studie har strävat efter att få fram vad som är svårigheten bland peda- goger och lärare för att upptäcka problemen i tidigt stadie. Barn som har läs och skrivsvårigheter får inte bara svårigheter i skolan utan det övriga sociala samverkan med andra barn/vuxna kan påverkas. Detta ämne kan skapa utanförskap och mobbing om det inte hanteras på rätt sätt. När ska dessa problem upptäckas och av vem, denna studie visar på hur förskolan kan/ska jobba med läs och skrivsvårigheter och vilka problem det är för pedagogerna att utföra detta. Undersökningen till denna studie har utförts genom ett frågeformulär och personliga diskussioner med specialpedagoger, förskollärare och pedagoger i förskoleklass Sammanlagt intervjuades sju personer och de jobbade med barn mellan tre till sex år , intervjuerna genomfördes i ett område där pedagogerna kände sig trygga och bekväma. Studien innefattas av sekretess och tystnadsplikt och alla namn är fiktiva. Intervjuerna spelades in och skrevs sedan rent och alla svaren i studien kate- goriserades upp och man kunde se att de jobbade i enlighet med Born- holmsmodellen, Karlstadsmodellen. Det har framkommit av undersökningen att det är kommunikation med bilder och tecken som är strategin som förskollärarna främst använder sig av för att inkludera, utveckla och kommunicera med barnen. Pedagoger belyser problem inom förskolan för att kunna hantera dessa frågor. Avsaknad av hjälpmedel nämns ofta, men de jobbar med det kan och det in- nebär arbete med munövningar, rim, ramsor och sång . Några har upptäckt brister i läs och skriv hos barn utan att vidtaga några åtgärder. Ett problem som aktualiseras mer och mer är hur man upptäcker läs och skriv svårigheter hos barn som ej har svenska talade föräldrar, och här måste man förlita sig till barnets föräldrar i hög utsträckning. Undersökningen visar att det finns brister i utbildningen och avsaknaden av verktyg/hjälpmedel och tiden för att hantera problemen nämns ofta i denna studie.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-07-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:44:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 giovani_f_dr_arafcl.pdf: 3117988 bytes, checksum: 251d80d375f9a263372c9813c7daa09e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O presente estudo tem por objetivo conhecer o percurso ontogenético dos gêneros discursivos escritos pelo qual passam as crianças durante o processo de apropriação da escrita e refletir sobre eles. Para isso, foram acompanhadas direta e indiretamente três salas de alfabetização. Em uma delas, foi realizado um trabalho coletivo entre a professora e a pesquisadora durante todo o ano letivo de 2007. As duas outras salas passaram a receber a visita da pesquisadora, uma vez ao mês, a partir do segundo semestre do referido ano. Nas três salas visitadas mensalmente, foram produzidas oficinas, cujo produto resultou na produção de textos escritos pelas crianças. Partindo do princípio de que as micro-histórias podem ser peças importantes para desvendar e descobrir elementos importantes sobre a macro-história, escolhemos como metodologia de pesquisa o paradigma indiciário para, através de indícios singulares, nos dar pistas sobre a apropriação do gênero discursivo escrito por estas crianças. Por não querer perder de vista a história do sujeito autor nesse processo, limitamos a análise à produção escrita de três crianças, cada uma sendo representante de sua sala de alfabetização. Através dos indícios deixados pelos sujeitos, pudemos perceber que cada criança priorizou um elemento da engrenagem gênero discursivo, e essa ênfase se deu graças ao tipo de vivência e diálogo que foi possível a cada uma delas estabelecer com os gêneros do discurso. Assistimos o processo de V. priorizando, em suas escritas, o elemento tema, numa tentativa alucinada de reproduzir o que foi visto e devolver a palavra que a escola, representada por sua professora, queria ouvir. Observamos o processo de J. que priorizava a estrutura composicional, uma vez que esta era a forma priorizada pelo trabalho com alfabetização de sua professora. Por fim, acompanhamos F. enfatizando o estilo em suas... / In spite of the fact that only three student were presented in this work, because they represent typical cases, the investigation of genre acquisition all the time were analyzing and interpreting all material produced by all the sudents. The teacher’s methodological approach and behavior were considered always as a parameter to interpret the children written production. At the end of this research, we got the conclusion that the appropriation of genres in written production by children at school is unique, unrepeatable and singular. In the acquisition of genre structure, the teacher’ role is fundamental as the presence of the other in dialoguing with the texts and the students. According to Bakhtin, genre is life and therefore it is not possible to purify it or to frame it in previously determined rules. As a consequence, the acquisition of genre by the children is process with individual characteristics. It is not possible to repeat it with different subjects. During the process, the children make use of inter-genres strategies in writing stories, what corresponds to our initical expectation. With this information, we could produce a better definition of an ethical and an aesthetical subject. The first takes into account only the value of the information he gets fron the knowledge of genres in written production, but the second goes further and expects a direct dialog with the interlocutor of his text. Ethical and aesthetical subject are not educated by themselves. It is necessary the presence of somebody else, the other, to whom a dialog must be always present and real. The process of interaction between the teacher and students is the guarantee of the success

This study is about teachers’ read-aloud in the classroom. Reading comprehension is important in all subjects of the school and a recurring knowledge requirement throughout the compulsory school. The purpose is therefore to investigate how teachers in grades 1 – 2 describe their read-aloud. The following questions have been the starting point of this study: What purpose do teachers have with their read-aloud? How do teachers work with read-aloud? Which advantages and disadvantages do teachers see with read-aloud? This study is based on the sociocultural theory assuming that people develop through social activities where scaffolding is important for development. Semi-structured interviews have been used and six teachers have been interviewed. The material has been analyzed and discussed in relation to the field. The result shows that the teachers have several different purposes of read-aloud. The purpose can be to create a mutual reading experience or increase pupils’ interest in reading. Also, the purpose can be to develop pupils’ reading comprehension. How and how much the teachers use read-aloud differs. According to the teachers there are major advantages of read-aloud while the disadvantages are few. / Studien behandlar lärares arbete med högläsning i sin undervisning. Läsförståelse är en viktig grund i skolans alla ämnen och ett återkommande kunskapskrav genom hela grundskolan. Syftet är därför att undersöka hur lärare i årskurs 1 – 2 beskriver sitt arbete med högläsning. Dessa frågeställningar har varit utgångspunkterna för studien: Vilket syfte har lärare med sin högläsning? Hur arbetar lärarna med högläsning i sin undervisning? Vilka för- och nackdelar ser lärarna med högläsning? Studien har sin utgångspunkt i den sociokulturella teorin som utgår från att människor utvecklas genom sociala aktiviteter där stöttning är viktigt för att utvecklas. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har använts och totalt har sex lärare intervjuats. Materialet har analyserats och diskuterats i förhållande till forskning inom området. Resultatet visar att lärarna har flera olika syften med högläsning. Den kan syfta till att skapa en gemensam läsupplevelse eller öka elevers läsintresse, men syftet kan också vara att utveckla elevers läsförståelse. Hur och hur mycket lärarna använder högläsning i sin undervisning skiljer sig åt. Enligt lärarna är fördelarna med högläsning många medan nackdelarna är få.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-03-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:37:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 paixao_kmg_me_assis.pdf: 439235 bytes, checksum: 6836758eb5d229d2269f1d42ff83eae1 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente pesquisa se propõe a analisar e discutir criticamente as concepções e práticas presentes na educação infantil, especificamente, no trabalho pedagógico desenvolvido com crianças entre 5-6 anos, a partir de um estudo de caso (uma turma) em uma escola de educação infantil pública da cidade de Marília-SP. Tendo em vista o processo de reconhecimento da educação infantil como primeiro nível da educação básica a partir da L.D.B de 1996, o que, para nós, vem sendo interpretado enquanto justificativa e necessidade da presença nas instituições de educação infantil - especificamente, na faixa etária por nós analisada (5-6 anos), por ser este período anterior à entrada da criança no Ensino Fundamental - de uma pedagogia preocupada em iniciar, o quanto antes, o processo de alfabetização. Ou seja, uma pedagogia preocupada com uma criança que virá a ser e que não o é hoje, tornando-se, desta forma, antecipadora do processo de escolarização, sem necessariamente resguardar a especificidade da primeira infância. Para tanto, utilizamo-nos da pesquisa de tipo de etnográfico a fim de construir instrumentos que nos possibilitassem conhecer o cotidiano desta escola e as relações estabelecidas entre crianças, professora e direção, a partir da pedagogia presente neste cotidiano. Desta forma, realizamos observações ao longo de um ano letivo da turma analisada, entrevista com a professora desta turma, análise de documentos tais como: plano educacional e planejamento semanal da professora, que foram analisados qualitativamente, focalizando as concepções sobre criança, sobre o papel do professor e a prática... / The article intends to analyze and discuss critically the conceptions and present practices in children's education, specifically in pedagogical work developed with 5-6 years old children, from a study of case (a class) in a public pre-school in the city of Marília-SP. Having in view the recognition process of the children's education as first level of the basic education from L.D.B. (Direction and Basis Law) in 1996, which, for us, has being interpreted while justification and necessity of presence in the children's education institutions - specifically, in the age group analyzed by us (5-6 years old), due to this period be previous to the ingression of the children in the Elementary School - of a pedagogy worried at beginning, as soon as possible, the process of teaching to read and write In other words, a pedagogy worried about a child that will become and that is not today, getting, in this way, anticipant of the process of schooling, without necessarily guard the specificity of the first childhood. Therefore, we utilized the research of the type of etnograph in order to construct instruments that allow us to know the quotidian of this school and the established relations among children, teachers and direction, from the pedagogy present in this quotidian. Thus, we effectuated observations along one school year of the analyzed class, interview with the teacher of this class, analysis of documents such as: educational plan and weekly planning ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Orientador: Luiz Carlos Cagliari / Banca: João Wanderley Geraldi / Banca: Claudia Raimundo Reyes / Banca: Maria Silvia Cintra Martins / Banca: Marina Célia Mendonça / Resumo: O presente estudo tem por objetivo conhecer o percurso ontogenético dos gêneros discursivos escritos pelo qual passam as crianças durante o processo de apropriação da escrita e refletir sobre eles. Para isso, foram acompanhadas direta e indiretamente três salas de alfabetização. Em uma delas, foi realizado um trabalho coletivo entre a professora e a pesquisadora durante todo o ano letivo de 2007. As duas outras salas passaram a receber a visita da pesquisadora, uma vez ao mês, a partir do segundo semestre do referido ano. Nas três salas visitadas mensalmente, foram produzidas oficinas, cujo produto resultou na produção de textos escritos pelas crianças. Partindo do princípio de que as micro-histórias podem ser peças importantes para desvendar e descobrir elementos importantes sobre a macro-história, escolhemos como metodologia de pesquisa o paradigma indiciário para, através de indícios singulares, nos dar pistas sobre a apropriação do gênero discursivo escrito por estas crianças. Por não querer perder de vista a história do sujeito autor nesse processo, limitamos a análise à produção escrita de três crianças, cada uma sendo representante de sua sala de alfabetização. Através dos indícios deixados pelos sujeitos, pudemos perceber que cada criança priorizou um elemento da engrenagem gênero discursivo, e essa ênfase se deu graças ao tipo de vivência e diálogo que foi possível a cada uma delas estabelecer com os gêneros do discurso. Assistimos o processo de V. priorizando, em suas escritas, o elemento tema, numa tentativa alucinada de reproduzir o que foi visto e devolver a palavra que a escola, representada por sua professora, queria ouvir. Observamos o processo de J. que priorizava a estrutura composicional, uma vez que esta era a forma priorizada pelo trabalho com alfabetização de sua professora. Por fim, acompanhamos F. enfatizando o estilo em suas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In spite of the fact that only three student were presented in this work, because they represent typical cases, the investigation of genre acquisition all the time were analyzing and interpreting all material produced by all the sudents. The teacher's methodological approach and behavior were considered always as a parameter to interpret the children written production. At the end of this research, we got the conclusion that the appropriation of genres in written production by children at school is unique, unrepeatable and singular. In the acquisition of genre structure, the teacher' role is fundamental as the presence of the other in dialoguing with the texts and the students. According to Bakhtin, genre is life and therefore it is not possible to purify it or to frame it in previously determined rules. As a consequence, the acquisition of genre by the children is process with individual characteristics. It is not possible to repeat it with different subjects. During the process, the children make use of inter-genres strategies in writing stories, what corresponds to our initical expectation. With this information, we could produce a better definition of an ethical and an aesthetical subject. The first takes into account only the value of the information he gets fron the knowledge of genres in written production, but the second goes further and expects a direct dialog with the interlocutor of his text. Ethical and aesthetical subject are not educated by themselves. It is necessary the presence of somebody else, the other, to whom a dialog must be always present and real. The process of interaction between the teacher and students is the guarantee of the success / Doutor

A tese Na Estrada dos Enigmas, Leituras e Linguagens - Imagem e Palavra em Cena propõe uma reflexão sobre a formação de professores de leitura e produção textual e relata uma prática de ensino que utiliza a arte como mediadora e, para isso, atenta que é preciso que o educador transite pelo universo da arte; assim, pretendemos mostrar como isso foi possível em nossa dimensão pedagógica, a partir de experiências intelectuais, artísticas, pedagógicas, emocionais que nos constituíram enquanto educadora. Retomando as palavras de Jean Lauand, ela serve \"no sentido daquela felicíssima confusão que a língua espanhola faz com a palavra enseñar: ensinar não só como ensinar, mas como mostrar\". Sendo assim, o primeiro capítulo se destinou a delinear, por meio das formas poéticas da vida, recriadas pela arte, uma reflexão acerca da formação do educador na sociedade contemporânea. Nosso intento foi descrever como mediamos um processo pedagógico com vistas à formação do educador contemporâneo, capaz de encontrar os arregalados olhos grandes que há dentro de cada alma formada e vertida pelo céu e pela ciência, e ver a realidade além da imagem e, a partir da sua contemplação, encontrar vias possíveis para a solução de seus próprios enigmas. E isso se justificou pelo fato de que na sociedade contemporânea, verificamos a emergência de nos constituirmos enquanto educadores que exerçam uma função social, que articulem seus saberes, planejem e concretizem o fazer pedagógico de forma realmente profissional, conscientes da responsabilidade perante o aprendiz que nos foi confiado, bem como perante aos outros integrantes do tecido social, e que alcancem com o objetivo de possibilitar a constituição de uma educação estética e, consequentemente, pela educação de seres humanos autônomos e melhores. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos um estudo que fundamenta a concepção de leitura do educador leitor e produtor de textos, apto a mediar a construção do conhecimento de seus alunos, no que concerne à leitura e à produção de textos. Partirmos da constatação de que não é possível extrair do vazio, a leitura e a produção textual. Por esse motivo, entendemos que é papel do educador despertar no aluno a consciência de que a leitura e a reflexão sobre o processo de composição textual desenvolvido por outros autores são elementos primordiais e fundamentais do processo de construção do seu (do aluno) texto, pois, leitura e conhecimento técnico são propulsores da compreensão e da interpretação, bem como contribuem para o fluir da criação. No terceiro capítulo, relatamos algumas práticas de leitura e produção de textos que desenvolvemos com nossos aprendizes, a fim de ilustrar que ensinar a produzir textos, longe da crença comum, não é simplesmente transmitir conhecimentos sobre definição de gêneros, modalidades e estrutura formal de produções discursivas; é sim um ato de extrema complexidade, pois exige que o leitor e, posteriormente, o produtor de textos, primeiramente, se emaranhe no tecido e na estrutura textual alheia para desvendá-los e, depois possa, finalmente, criar o próprio texto. E, além disso, possa também eleger destinos e dá-los a esses textos. E, finalmente concluímos, certos de que para a epifania da escrita ocorra, é preciso que a leitura salte para dentro da vida. / On the Enigma, Reading and Language Road - Images and Words on Stage is a study that proposes a reflection on the education of reading and text production teachers and reports on a teaching practice that uses art as medium, thus, calling attention to the need of educators to pass through the world of art. We intend to show how this is possible within our pedagogical dimension, and through the use of the intellectual, artistic, pedagogical, and emotional experiences we acquired as teachers. In Jean Lauand\'s words, it is used \"in the way that Spanish very delightfully confuses the word enseñar: enseñar means not only teach, but also show\". Therefore, the objective of the first chapter was to outline, through the poetic forms of life, recreated through art, a reflection on the education of the teacher in today\'s contemporary society. Our aim was to describe how we mediated the educational process in the development of today\'s teachers, capable of seeking deep inside their souls for the awareness of looking beyond the image, and through this contemplation, find possible solutions for their own enigmas. This was justified by the fact that in contemporary society we note the urgency of developing educators who actually perform a social function. These are educators who articulate knowledge, plan pedagogical activities and carry them out in a truly professional manner, conscious of their responsibilities to the learner who was entrusted to them, as well as to other participants in the social fabric and whose objectives are to provide an aesthetic education which will consequently result in the education of better and independent human beings. In the second chapter, we present a study based on the educator\'s concept of reading, on his/her capacity of acting as a medium in the building of knowledge in his/her students, in reference to reading and text production. We begin with the verification that it is not possible to extract reading or text production from empty space. For this reason, we understand that the role of the educator is to awaken the student\'s awareness to the fact that reading and reflecting on texts written by other authors are basic and fundamental principals for the student\'s own text production, because, reading and technical skills are the driving force to comprehension and interpretation, as well as contributors to the creative flow. In the third chapter we report some reading and text production practices that we developed along with our learners, to illustrate that teaching to produce texts, far from common belief, is not simply transmitting knowledge and defining genres, modes and formal discursive structures. Text production is an extremely complex activity, because it requires that the reader, who later will become a text producer him/herself, first be enmeshed in the texture and structure of someone else\'s text, to unveil it, so he/she may later create his/her own text, as well as determine the purpose and fate of these texts. We finally conclude that for a writer\'s epiphany to occur, reading must take a leap into life.

The modern automobile is a complex electromechanical system controlled by control systems which consist of several interdependent electronic control units (ECUs). Analysis of the data generated by these modules is very important in order to observe the interesting patterns among data. At Volvo Cars Corporation today, diagnostic read-out data is retrieved from client machines installed at workshops in different countries around the world. The problem with this data is that it does not show a clear picture as what is causing what i.e. tracking the problem. Diagnostic engineers at Volvo Cars Corporation perform routine based statistical analysis of diagnostic read-out data manually, which is time consuming and tedious work. Moreover, this analysis is restricted to basic level mainly statistical analysis of diagnostic readout data. We present an approach based on statistical analysis and cluster analysis. Our approach focused on analysing the data from a pure statistical stand-point to isolate the problem in diagnostic read-out data, thereby helping to visualize and analyse the nature of the problem at hand. Different general statistical formulae were applied to get meaningful information from large amount of DRO data. Cluster analysis was carried out to get clusters consisting of similar trouble codes. Different methods and techniques were considered for the purpose of cluster analysis. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical clusters were extracted by applying appropriate algorithms. The results obtained from the thesis work show that the diagnostic read-out data consist of independent and interdependent fault codes. Groups were generated which consist of similar trouble codes. Furthermore, corresponding factors from freeze frame data which shows significant variation for these groups were also extracted. These faults, groups of faults and factors were later interpreted and validated by  diagnostic engineers.

Textsamtal är ett viktigt moment i skolan och ett av dess mål är att utveckla elevernas läsförståelse. Även om det är tidskrävande är textsamtal väldigt givande för eleverna och något som hjälper dem att använda olika lässtrategier för att få en bättre läsförståelse. Syftet med denna kunskapsöversikt var att se vad forskning säger om textsamtal. Vi använde oss av två olika databaser, Primo och ERIC (ProQuest), för att kunna ta fram relevanta studier till vår kunskapsöversikt. Studiernas resultat visade att textsamtal är ett viktigt moment för elevernas läsförståelse men samtidigt är det ännu viktigare att använda sig av lässtrategier för att kunna utveckla läsförståelsen. Lärarna behöver modellera lässtrategierna för att få eleverna att förstå hur dessa kan användas. Reciprocal Teaching och Questioning the Author är två viktiga och användbara lässtrategier inom textsamtal i skolan som hjälper eleverna att utvecklas i sin läsförståelse. Efter att ha läst och fördjupat oss i våra valda studier har vi kommit fram till att forskarna inte alltid skiljer mellan fiktiva och icke-fiktiva texter vilket är problematiskt.

How airpower should be utilized for best effect in counterinsurgency operations is widely debated. According to David Jordan the most important contribution of airpower abilities in these situations is through assisting roles. Such as providing enhanced mobility, better observation and a third category including the importance of presence, harassment and the delivery of direct force. This thesis aims to investigate if those abilities proves to be a significant contribution to a modern counterinsurgency in accordance with a theoretical framework based on papers written by Jordan and Derek Read. It does so through a case study research on operation Atalanta. The result of the study indicates that airpower did support the operation in a way that was critical for success in deterring pirate attacks. The most prominent attributes are those of the third category: presence, harassment and the delivery of direct force. The second category was vital as well, the use of airpower provided the operation with intelligence and information through its capability for observation. There is not, however, enough material to completely support the theoretical framework that airpower was crucial in enhancing the operations mobility in operation Atalanta. / <p><strong>Uppsatsen skriven VT 2017 under Termin 4 Officersprogrammet 15-18 med inriktning </strong><strong>mot flyg. Examen genomförs VT 2018.</strong></p>