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No. of bitstreams: 1 luizsobrinho_vv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 4918822 bytes, checksum: 0106c8bd5035895bf27232fb2743a895 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundamentada numa concepção etnográfico-discursiva (CORRÊA, 2011; 2013), em estudos de letramentos (STREET, 2014; 2010; LEA; STREET, 2014) e em estudos do discurso (BAKHTIN, 2010; 2011; AUTHIERREVUZ, 1990; 2004), esta tese tem como objetivo investigar “conflitos” que emergem de produções textuais escolares escritas produzidas por escreventes de Ensino Fundamental II, no diálogo que é estabelecido entre esses alunos e a instituição escolar quanto a uso social de tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação (TDIC). A hipótese de partida é a de que esses conflitos permitem observar uma heterogeneidade dos letramentos – entendida como a presença de “outro(s)” (letramentos (d)e sujeitos) na produção textual escolar escrita, mas, a essa produção não restrita – de que tanto produções textuais escolares escritas quanto, portanto, práticas sociais dos sujeitos, são resultantes. Este objetivo geral desdobra-se em outros, específicos: (i) investigar principais tendências de cumprimento da atividade de produção textual escolar escrita, considerando-se o que o foi solicitado pela instituição escolar/professor e o que o aluno escrevente efetivamente conseguiu cumprir; (ii) investigar marcas linguístico-discursivas que indiciam a heterogeneidade dos letramentos; (iii) investigar o modo como o aluno escrevente projeta o (seu) modo de participação em práticas letradas acadêmicas e práticas letradas digitais; (iv) apresentar resultados que contribuam para pesquisas na área de Ciências da Linguagem e para reflexões sobre políticas públicas de ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil. O conjunto do material é formado de: (i) duas propostas de produção de redação e (ii) 203 (duzentas e três) produções textuais escolares escritas produzidas, com base nas referidas propostas, por alunos das então 5a. e 6a. séries (atuais 6o. e 7o. anos) de uma escola pública do município de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, no ano de 2008 (TENANI, 2015). A adoção de procedimentos de investigação de base abdutiva (GINZBURG, 1990; 1991) permitiu que os textos analisados fossem agrupados segundo regularidades, a saber: (i) aquela em que o aluno pergunta a um primo/amigo sobre TDIC, por meio de uma carta pessoal; (ii) aquela em que o aluno responde a um primo/amigo sobre TDIC, por meio de uma carta pessoal; (iii) aquela em que o aluno pergunta e responde sobre TDIC, sem se apropriar do gênero carta pessoal; (iv) aquela em que o aluno foge ao tema. Dentre os resultados obtidos, destaca-se o do aspecto constitutivo de um letramento em outro – em outras palavras, a impossibilidade de se distinguir práticas sociais de leitura e escrita que seriam exclusivamente características do contexto da escola, tido como tradicional, daquelas que seriam exclusivamente características do contexto digital, tido como novidade. Tenciona-se, assim, contribuir para estudos de letramentos, com base na crítica de ideia corrente de que práticas sociais de leitura e escrita seriam de exclusividade de um contexto ou de outro, o que levaria à defesa de uma concepção de homogeneidade em cada prática situada. O estudo de marcas de heterogeneidade dos letramentos é relevante porque permite mostrar a complexidade da linguagem, numa dinâmica regida por constituição sócio-histórica do sujeito com o (no) outro, na alteridade. / Based on an discursive ethnographical conception (CORRÊA, 2011; 2013), in literacy studies (STREET, 2014; 2010; LEA; STREET, 2014) and in discursive studies (BAKHTIN, 2010, 2011) AUTHIER-REVUZ, 1990; 2004), this thesis aims to investigate “conflicts” which emerge from the written textual production of schoolchildren in middle school, in a dialogue established between these students and the school institution for social use of information and communication digital technologies (ICDT). The starting hypothesis is that these conflicts allow to observe a heterogeneity of literacies – understood as the presence of “other(s) (literacies of/and subjects) in written school textual production, but, to this non-restricted production – from what both school written textual production as, thus, social practices of subjects, are resultant. The general objective unfolds in others, specific ones: (i) to investigate major trends of compliance of the school written textual production activity, considering what was requested by the educational institution/teacher and what the student effectively achieved; (ii) to investigate linguistic discursive marks which indicate heterogeneity of literacies; (iii) to investigate how the student designs the (his/her) mode of participation in academic literacy practices and digital literacy practices; (iv) to present results that contribute to researches in Language Science and to reflection on Portuguese Language teaching public policies in Brazil. The whole material is constituted of: (i) two proposals of written production and (ii) 203 (two hundred and three) written textual production, based on these proposals, by students in then 5th and 6th grades (current 6th and 7th in Brazil educational system) from a São José do Rio Preto municipal public school, in 2008 (TENANI, 2015). The adoption of abductive based investigation procedures (GINZBURG, 1990; 1991) allowed to analyze the texts in groups according to regularities, namely: (i) the one in which the student asks a cousin/friend about ICDT, through a personal letter; (ii) the one in which the student answers a cousin/friend about ICDT, through personal letter; (iii) the one in which the student asks and answers about ICDT, without appropriating the personal letter genre; (iv) the one in which the student escapes the theme . Among the obtained results, it is noteworthy the constitutive aspects of a literacy in another – in other words, the impossibility of distinguishing reading and writing social practices which would be characteristics exclusively from school context, known as traditional, from the ones which would be characteristics exclusively from digital context, taken as novelty. It will thus contribute to literacy studies, based on the current idea that social practices of reading and writing would be a context or another exclusivity, which would lead to the defense of a homogeneity conception in each situated practice. The study of marks of literacies heterogeneity is relevant because it allows to show the language complexity, a dynamic ruled by socio-historical constitution of the subject with (in) the other, in otherness. / CAPES-COFECUB : 834/15

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No. of bitstreams: 1 arroyo_rw_dr_sjrp.pdf: 4652563 bytes, checksum: ac511e55b543adadb6092331ddde7f1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-15 / Selon un cadre théorique et méthodologique qui met l'accent sur les concepts développés par Bakhtine et son cercle et sur les Nouvelles Études de Littéracie, l’objectif central de cette thèse est étudier le statut du « lien web » (souvent connu comme "connexion électronique" dans l'hypertextes sur internet) comme point d'hétérogénéité des pratiques de littéracies universitaires dans le contexte numérique. En rendant compte de la pluralité de littéracies qui composent la production et la circulation des textes dans le domaine universitaire, la recherhe a été consideré como l'hypothèse que la relation établie par le sujet avec la production de ses textes dans le contexte numérique est liée à façons de concevoir (sa propre) énonciation et d'intéragir avec des Outres (avec/dans les technologies) et non seulement à l'exploitation des outils numériques dans la lecture et dans la production de ces textes universitaires. Le matériel de la recherche a été formé de soixante-douze (72) textes produits dans le Facebook, un réseau social sur internet, par des étudiants inscrits dans un cours de baccalauréat en littérature d’une université publique au État de São Paulo connecté à un réseau social sur Internet à l'année de 2012. Les procédures sont fondés sur la Méthode Indiciaire, formulée par Ginzburg (1989), une méthode qui permet déveloper une analyse interprétative de base qualitative. Comme les principaux résultats, on détache, du point de vue des enseignants en formation initiale, une projection de que l'appropriation des ressources technologiques serait une condition pour améliorer la productivité des sujets par rapport aux pratiques d'écriture universitaire. On comprend cette projection como un effet de conflits entre, d’un côté, l’imaginaire créé par des étudiants sobre l’éducation et l’utilisation des technologies numériques de l’information e de communication, et, de l’autre côté, la façon avec laquelle ces étudiants intéragent en utilisant les outils numériques. / De uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica que privilegia conceitos de Bakhtin e seu Círculo e dos Novos Estudos do Letramento, esta tese tem como objetivo investigar o estatuto do link (popularmente conhecido como “ligação eletrônica” em hipertextos da internet) como ponto de heterogeneidade de práticas letradas acadêmicas em contexto digital. Considerando-se a pluralidade de letramentos que constituem a produção e a circulação de textos na esfera acadêmica, a hipótese de partida é a de que a relação que o sujeito estabelece com a produção de texto em contexto digital está vinculada a modos de conceber o (seu) enunciado e de interagir com o Outro (com as/nas tecnologias) e não apenas à instrumentalização de recursos digitais na leitura e na produção desses textos acadêmicos. O conjunto do material é formado por setenta e dois (72) textos produzidos no Facebook, uma rede social na internet por universitários, professores em formação inicial, regularmente matriculados num Curso de Licenciatura em Letras numa universidade pública do Estado de São Paulo, no ano de 2012. Os procedimentos de investigação que direcionam este estudo estão fundamentados no Paradigma Indiciário formulado por Ginzburg (1989), o qual permite análise qualitativo-interpretativa dos dados. Dentre os principais resultados encontrados, destaca-se a projeção, da perspectiva desses professores em formação inicial, de que a apropriação de recursos tecnológicos seria condição para melhor produtividade dos sujeitos em relação a práticas letradas acadêmicas. Essa projeção é entendida, nesta tese, como resultante do imaginário construído pelos universitários sobre educação e uso de tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação em práticas letradas acadêmicas e o modo pelo qual estes alunos interagem com tais práticas ao fazerem uso de recursos digitais. / From a theoretical-methodological perspective which privileges Baktin’s concepts and New Writing Skill Studies, this doctoral thesis has as objective to investigate the status of link (commonly known as ‘electronic connection’ in internet hypertexts) as a point of heterogeneity in academic literate practices, in the digital context. Given the plurality of writing skills that constitutes the production and circulation of scientific texts in the academic setting, the starting hypothesis of this study is that the relation that the subject establishes with the production of texts in the digital context is related to specific ways of conceiving (its own) enunciated and interacting with the Other (with/in the technologies), and not just the instrumentalization of digital recourses in the reading and production of these academic texts. The set of materials consist of seventy two (72) texts produced within Facebook, an online social network by undergraduate students of Linguistics enrolled in a public State University of São Paulo, on an online social network, in the year of 2012. The investigative procedures that guide this study are based on the Evidential Paradigm formulated by Ginzburg (1989), which allows the qualitative interpretative analysis of the data. Among the main results obtained, we highlight a projection from the perspective of these teachers in initial training that the appropriation of technological resources would be provided for better productivity of the subjects in relation to academic writing practices. Such projection is understood here as resultant of the imaginary constructed by undergraduate students about education and the use of digital technologies of information and communication in academic writing practices, and the mode by which these students interacts with these practices.

A crescente internacionalização do ensino superior (MOROSINI, 2006) tem feito com que tanto instituições financiadoras quanto universidades pressionem pesquisadores a publicarem internacionalmente (MUELLER, 2000). Visando a aumentar a visibilidade da pesquisa local dentro do cenário acadêmico internacional (FLOWERDEW, 1999), a publicação em periódicos com alto fator de impacto geralmente ocorre em inglês, a língua franca das ciências (HÜLMBAUER et al., 2008). Entretanto, publicar em inglês, que desafia pesquisadores não nativos de inglês em geral (OLIVEIRA, ZUCOLOTTO E ALUÍSIO, 2006), é ainda mais desafiador para neófitos com pouco domínio daquela língua. Apesar de bastante estudadas no exterior, tanto do ponto de vista discente (LEKI E CARSON, 1994; CABRAL E TAVARES, 2005; LAVELLE E BUSHROW, 2007; ENE, 2014) quanto do docente (ENGLISH, 1999; PEDRA E NOCITO, 2012; CARRIÓ-PASTOR E MESTRE-MESTRE, 2014; DAVOUDI, NAFCHI E MALLAHI, 2015) ou de ambos (CASANAVE e HUBBARD, 1992; BITCHE-NER E BASTURKMEN, 2006; DONOHUE E ERLING, 2012), no Brasil, nunca foi feito um estudo que reunisse as principais dificuldades de pós-graduandos com a escrita acadêmica em inglês. Com o intuito de contribuir para o melhor conhecimento da complexidade do esforço de inserção de pesquisadores iniciantes na comunidade acadêmica global via publicação internacional, esta pesquisa de mestrado objetivou conhecer as dificuldades de pós-graduandos de uma universidade pública brasileira com a escrita acadêmica em inglês tanto na percepção discente quanto na docente e averiguar se haveria convergências ou divergências naquelas percepções. Dois questionários foram confeccionados e aplicados eletronicamente, angariando 385 participações (303 pós-graduandos e 82 professores). As análises quantitativa e qualitativa dos dados mostraram convergência nas percepções das duas maiores dificuldades de pós-graduandos (escrever um texto que soe natural em inglês e usar preposições adequadamente). Os dados não só revelaram uma crença predominantemente alinhada com uma visão tradicionalista do ensino da escrita em inglês (FERREIRA, 2007), mas também indicaram que as percepções de pós-graduandos sobre suas próprias deficiências com a escrita em inglês não eram claras. O conhecimento das dificuldades específicas de pós-graduandos com o inglês acadêmico escrito possibilitará o alinhamento das percepções de discentes e docentes, contribuindo assim para melhor orientar futuras iniciativas pedagógicas e institucionais que beneficiem tanto pós-graduandos quanto professores. / The growing internationalization of higher education (MOROSINI, 2006) has caused funding agencies and universities to put pressure on researchers to publish internationally (MUELLER, 2000). In order to increase the visibility of local research within the international academic context (FLOWERDEW, 1999), publication in high-impact factor journals usually occurs in English, the lingua franca of science (HÜLMBAUER et al., 2008). However, publishing in English challenges most non-native English speaking researchers (OLIVEIRA et al., 2006), especially junior researchers with little mastery of English. Although graduate students main difficulties have been regularly studied abroad, either from their own perspective (LEKI & CARSON, 1994; CABRAL & TAVARES, 2005; LAVELLE & BUSHROW, 2007; ENE, 2014), from their professors (ENGLISH, 1999; PEDRA & NOCITO, 2012; CARRIÓ-PASTOR & MESTRE-MESTRE, 2014; DAVOUDI, NAFCHI & MALLAHI, 2015) or from both (CASANAVE & HUBBARD, 1992; BITCHENER & BASTURKMEN, 2006; DONOHUE & ERLING, 2012), in Brazil those students perceptions of their difficulties with academic English writing had never been gathered in one single investigation before. Hoping to cast light on the complex effort involved in junior researchers indictment into global academia through international publication, this research aimed at uncovering the difficulties graduate students in a Brazilian public university face with academic writing in English. Students and professors perceptions of the formers difficulties were investigated and then compared in order to reveal points of convergence or divergence. Two questionnaires were designed and applied, yielding 385 participants (303 graduate students and 82 professors). One of the main findings of the quantitative and qualitative data analysis is that students and teachers perceptions converge regarding the students main difficulties with writing in English: writing texts that would sound natural in English and using prepositions adequately. The data not only revealed a predominant belief in the traditional teaching of English and of writing (FERREIRA, 2007), but they also indicated that students perceptions of their own writing difficulties in English were unclear. The knowledge of specific challenges to graduate writing in English will facilitate the alignment of students and professors perceptions, thus contributing to inform future pedagogical and institutional initiatives benefitting both staff and students.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The development of academic literacies in a certain area of knowledge allows, to the one who is learning, conditions for reading the world and acting in the contemporary society, for engaging in the disciplinary debate, and for developing an opinion concerning the effects of scientific and technological innovations of the area and the potential consequences resulted from their use (MOTTA-ROTH, 2013a, p.145). Recognizing the importance of academic literacies in the university context and in the formation of students in different areas of knowledge, this research aims at identifying and discussing characteristics of academic literacies processes of a group of students from the course of Publicity and Advertising (PA) (Publicidade e Propaganda) in a PA experimental agency located at south of Brazil. In order to do that, we adopt the perspective of Critical Genre Analysis (MEURER, 2002; BHATIA, 2004; MOTTA-ROTH, 2008; 2011a), academic literacies studies (LEA; STREET, 1998; 2006; MOTTA-ROTH 2013a) and the notion of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LAVE; WENGER, 1991). As part of the umbrella project Academic/scientific literacy and Legitimate Peripheral Participation in the knowledge production (Letramento acadêmico/científico e participação periférica legítima na produção de conhecimento) (MOTTA-ROTH, 2013b), this study consists in a qualitative research based on ethnography (LAUTOR; WOLGAR, 1997), in which, observations of social activities from the PA experimental agency were made. The corpus of this research is constituted by a) notes collected by prticipant observation; b) field notes/photography; c) answers from questionnaires applied to the agency members; and d) advising sessions between professors and students. With the observations and field notes, the intention was to collect information about the laboratory context. Through the observations and field notes, it was detected the need to apply questionnaires and to analyze advising sessions between professors and students. It is understood that the advising sessions through writing and rewriting processes and text editions, by students, based on professor s notes are a rich source to identify characteristics of students academic literacies. The results seem to indicate that students academic literacies depend on their interaction with other members from the laboratory and their engagement in genres and activities that arise from those genres in the agency. As the students participate in the agency, they develop literacies that turn them into more experienced publicists in the PA professional performance practices. Aligned to this characteristic, it seems that the academic literacies in PA are permeated with the development of personal taste. The members speech, in the advising sessions, is marked with lexicogramatical choices that privilege emotional mental clauses (e.g. amar, gostar, adorar). In this sense, it seems that emotional mental processes work as teaching parameters in this laboratory. These linguistic cues seem to be related to the recency of the PA area of knowledge (BORGES, 2002; DURAND; 2006; PÚBLIO; MADER, 2009). With this research, it is expected to contribute/reflect upon the academic literacies processes as for the PA area of knowledge as well as for the Applied Linguistic area of knowledge. / O desenvolvimento de letramentos acadêmicos em determinada área do saber permite, a aquele que está aprendendo, condições para a leitura de mundo e a ação na sociedade contemporânea, o engajamento no debate da disciplina, e desenvolvimento de uma opinião quanto aos efeitos das inovações científico-tecnológicas de sua área e as eventuais consequências acarretadas por seu uso (MOTTA-ROTH, 2013a, p.145). Reconhecendo a importância dos letramentos acadêmicos no contexto universitário e na formação de estudantes, em diferentes áreas do saber, esta pesquisa busca identificar características dos processos de letramentos acadêmicos de um grupo de estudantes do curso de Publicidade e Propaganda (PP) em uma agência experimental de PP alocada em uma universidade do sul do Brasil. Para isso, adota-se a perspectiva da Análise Crítica de Gêneros (MEURER, 2002; BHATIA, 2004; MOTTA-ROTH, 2008; 2011a), dos estudos de letramentos acadêmicos (LEA; STREET, 1998; 2006; MOTTA-ROTH 2013a) e da noção de Participação Periférica Legítima (LAVE; WENGER, 1991). Inserido no projeto guarda-chuva Letramento acadêmico/científico e participação periférica legítima na produção de conhecimento (MOTTA-ROTH, 2013b), este estudo consiste em uma pesquisa qualitativa de base etnográfica (LAUTOR; WOLGAR, 1997), na qual, foram realizadas observações das atividades sociais da agência experimental de PP. O corpus da presente pesquisa é constituído por: a) observações coletadas a partir de observação participante; b) notas de campo/fotografias; c) respostas de questionários aplicados com os membros da agência; e d) sessões de orientação entre professoras e estudantes. Nas observações e nas notas de campo, a intenção foi coletar informações acerca do contexto do laboratório. Por meio das observações e notas, detectou-se a necessidade da aplicação de questionários e da análise das sessões de orientação entre professoras e estudantes. Entende-se que as orientações por meio de processos de escrita, rescrita e edição de textos, por parte dos estudantes, com base nos apontamentos dos professores são uma fonte rica para identificar características dos letramentos acadêmicos dos estudantes. Os resultados parecem indicar que os letramentos acadêmicos dos estudantes dependem de sua interação com demais membros no laboratório e de seu engajamento em gêneros e atividades decorrentes desses gêneros na agência. À medida que esses estudantes participam, eles desenvolvem letramentos que os tornam publicitários mais experientes nas práticas de atuação profissional de PP. Aliada a essa característica, parece que os letramentos acadêmicos em PP são perpassados pelo desenvolvimento de gosto pessoal. A fala dos membros, nas sessões de orientação, é marcada por escolhas lexicogramaticais que privilegiam orações mentais emotivas (p. ex., amar, gostar, adorar). Nesse sentido, parece que processos mentais emotivos funcionam como parâmetros de ensino nesse laboratório. Esses indícios linguísticos parecem estar relacionados com a recência da área do saber da PP (PINHO, 1998; BORGES, 2002; DURAND, 2006; PÚBLIO; MADER, 2009). Com esta pesquisa, almeja-se trazer contribuições/reflexões acerca dos processos de letramentos acadêmicos tanto para área do saber da PP, como para a área do saber da Linguística Aplicada.

Magister Educationis - MEd / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

Magister Educationis - MEd / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature. In this study, I seek to explore the potential that digital storytelling has in the teaching of undergraduate academic writing skills. I will focus on first year students' academic writing skills, how they are taught currently and how technology in the form of digital storytelling can help first year students improve their academic writing skills. The theoretical framework for the study is largely based on the New Literacies Studies which is championed by members of the New London Group such as Street and Street (1984) Lea and Street (2006) among others. The theoretical framework will draw on the notion of literacy as social practice rather than a set of reading and writing skills which explains why educators need to find new ways of teaching academic writing skills. I use semiotics and multimodality as a foundational concept for using digital storytelling in academic writing. That is because semiotics and multimodality further support the idea that literacy goes beyond words but that audio and visual elements are also part of learning and can help engage students in their academic work. The main aim of this proposed research is to explore both students and lecturer practices of digital literacies in the teaching and learning of academic writing at The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). I propose the following research objectives: (i.) elucidate current academic writing scaffolding in academic modules; (ii.) draw on the use of digital storytelling in a first-year undergraduate course; (iii.) shed light on lecturers and students’ perceptions of the ways digital storytelling impacts on first-year academic writing; (iv.) highlight the implications of infusing multimodality into academic writing in this context; and (v.) explore the ways first-year students’ take on new writing practices and how these new practices are facilitated by the ii lecturer. I plan to use a qualitative research method to achieve my set objectives. I have opted to conduct action research, as both participant and researcher. The qualitative research method allows me to use the following research tools: document analysis; questionnaires and interviews. I analyse 15 student essays in order to elucidate current academic writing scaffolding in academic modules. These essays are divided into three categories: high performance; average performance; and low performance. Then questionnaires are distributed to students through a Google Forms link. Of the 40 student participants; 32 students filled in the questionnaires. The interviews were conducted with three lecturers across two departments at CPUT. These interviews, together with questionnaires that the students filled in served to address the following objectives: draw on the use of digital storytelling in a first-year undergraduate course; shed light on lecturers and students’ perceptions of the ways digital storytelling impacts on first-year academic writing; highlight the implications of infusing multimodality into academic writing in this context; and explore the ways first-year students’ take on new writing practices and how these new practices are facilitated by the lecturer. All the ethical considerations were adhered to for my research. I categorized my findings according to the research questions that I posed in the study. There were three research questions which serve as the three main themes of my data analysis. However, during the process of analyzing the data, a fourth theme emerged. The first finding indicates that academic writing scaffolding in academic writing modules is adequate for students who have essays in the high-performance category. However, it is inadequate especially for students who wrote essays in the low performance categories as they could not meet the demands of academic writing. The second finding indicates that students are able to use digital storytelling to help them with various aspects of academic writing. They are able to improve language and grammar; the structure of their writing, that is, the introduction, body and conclusion. The third finding illustrates that lecturers also feel that there are academic writing benefits to when using digital storytelling. Even though that may be, the use of technology for the medium of digital storytelling proved to be somewhat difficult. That is mostly because students did not have access to various technology such as internet connection or even equipment to complete the digital stories unproblematically. Then the fourth finding emerged during lecturer interviews, that is, fees must fall protests and the impact it had on the traditional university structure across. Fees must fall protests led to disruptions in academia because one key aspect they highlight is the need for decolonisation of the curriculum The use of digital storytelling then not only addressed the student academic writing challenges that are highlighted by this study, but also speak to decolonisation of the curriculum because it is an innovative way for students to engage with the demands of academic writing. The conclusion of my thesis is that as useful as digital storytelling is in academic writing; those who wish to use it as a teaching tool need to be well versed with technology as it can have challenges if not used adequately. The most pertinent of the factors revealed is that there is a need for innovative ways to teach the 21st century student.

Doctor Educationis / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

Magister Educationis - MEd / Literacy development in South African higher education is increasingly challenged by several issues in dialogue and language of tuition. Despite the widening of access to South African universities, research shows that a large majority of entry-level university students are still failing in their chosen programme of studies. Almost all universities in the democratic South Africa incorporate academic development programs in first-year modules as an awareness raising attempt to scaffold novice students into the vocabulary of their various disciplines. However, these development programs sometimes fail to address the language needs of some of the students who have had more than seven years of schooling in their first languages (IsiXhosa and Afrikaans). My study seeks to explore how additional language IsiXhosa and Afrikaans students understand and construct written knowledge in one literacy development course using English medium of instruction. I further explore lecturers’ and tutors’ perspectives of the demand of sounding a scholarly voice in academic writing by entry-level students in their new roles as scholars in the University of the Western Cape (UWC).Literature indicated gaps when it comes to students’ and lectures’ perceptions on the construction of voice in academic writing in a language that the students are not comfortable in.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The objective of this study is to analyze the discourse of students from an undergraduate Letters course at a university in southern Brazil and at an Applied Linguistics Laboratory the LLAp from the same department, based in the triad of teaching, research and extension, who were asked to speak about their academic discursive practices, in order to identify the characteristics of academic literacy processes, using the frameworks of ACD (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992; 2003), academic literacies (LEA; STREET, 1998; STREET, 2010) and the notion of legitimate peripheral participation (LAVE; WENGER, 1991). We developed and applied written semi-structured questionnaires and oral interviews dealing with three characteristics of academic literacy processes: genre systems, the roles played in academic literacy and the processes of authoring and co-authoring. In 58 written questionnaires answered by students of Letters and of the LLAp, we identified 47 genres mentioned by students. Among the most cited genres were those, which are most routine and formulaic in academic communities, such as reviews, abstracts and articles. On the other hand, genres less cited were those, which are more diffused and imprecise, such as conversation and defining the meaning of 'text'. Besides genre diversity, the diversity of roles mentioned by students indicates the plurality of possibilities made available by the projects developed at this university, especially at the LLAp. In the four interviews with LLAp students, we sought to focus on issues that were not explored thoroughly in the written questionnaire. In terms of genre system, students stressed different aspects. Two students emphasized bureaucratic genres, one student pointed out genres produced within the research project, co-authored with other group members and, finally, one student emphasized genres produced in the classroom and for the classroom, in relation to her role as a teacher in training and as a teacher in action. Regarding the authoring and co-authoring process, as well as the roles played, we identified different degrees of engagement and participation of students in the community. In theory, the longer a student participates and the greater the degree of engagement in the social practices of academic literacies in the community, the greater, proportionately, will be the legitimate peripheral participation process and, consequently, the greater the learning. / O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o discurso de alunos de um curso de Letras de uma universidade do sul do Brasil e um laboratório de Linguística Aplicada o LLAp que tem como base o tripé ensino, pesquisa e extensão da mesma universidade sobre suas práticas discursivas acadêmicas, de modo a identificar as características dos processos de letramentos acadêmicos, a partir da perspectiva da ACD (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992; 2003), dos estudos de letramentos acadêmicos (LEA; STREET, 1998; STREET, 2010) e da noção de participação periférica legítima (LAVE; WENGER, 1991). Para isso, elaboramos e aplicamos questionários semiestruturados escritos e entrevistas que tratavam especialmente sobre três características dos processos de letramentos acadêmicos: o sistema de gêneros, os papeis desempenhados e o processo de autoria e coautoria. Em síntese, alguns dados gerados parecem se salientar. Nos 58 questionários escritos respondidos por alunos do curso de Letras e do LLAp, identificamos 47 gêneros mencionados pelos discentes. Entre os gêneros mais citados estão aqueles mais rotineiros e formulaicos de comunidades acadêmicas como resenhas, resumos e artigos. Por outro lado, entre os gêneros menos citados, estão aqueles mais difusos e imprecisos como conversação e definição do significado de texto . Além da diversidade de gêneros, a diversidade de papeis mencionados pelos discentes indica a pluralidade de possibilidades oportunizadas pelos projetos desenvolvidos nesta universidade com destaque para o LLAp. Nas quatro entrevistas realizadas com alunos do LLAp, buscamos focar em questões que não foram exploradas profundamente no questionário escrito. Sobre o sistema de gêneros, identificamos que os alunos enfatizaram diferentes aspectos. Dois alunos enfatizaram gêneros da esfera burocrática , um aluno destacou gêneros produzidos no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa, em coautoria com outros membros do grupo e, por fim, um aluno deu ênfase em gêneros produzidos em sala de aula e para a sala de aula , seja em relação ao seu papel como docente em formação quanto docente em atuação. Em relação ao processo de autoria e coautoria, bem como dos papeis desempenhados, percebemos diferentes graus de engajamento e participação dos discentes na comunidade. Em tese, quanto maior o tempo de participação e maior o grau de engajamento dos discentes nas práticas sociais de letramentos acadêmicos na comunidade, maior, proporcionalmente, será o processo de participação periférica legítima e, consequentemente, maior será a aprendizagem.