The aim of the present study was to examine how the academic confidence among first year and second year master students were affected by the students’ parents educational level. 47 students on advanced level completed a questionnaire examining self-efficacy (SE), a concept that Albert Bandura (1997) defined as the level of confidence individuals have in their ability to execute courses of action or attain specific performance results. The questionnaire also included questions regarding the students’ parents educational level, the students gender, age and campus. The results indicated that the students SE in no significant matter were affected by the parents’ educational level. Neither did the students gender or campus significantly affect their SE. There was a significant negative correlation between the age of students and SE, which showed that as the age of the students increased, their SE decreased. / Målsättningen med den aktuella studien var att undersöka hur magister- och masterstudenters tilltro till sin studieförmåga påverkades av deras respektive föräldrars utbildningsnivå. 47 studenter på avancerad nivå fick svara på en enkät som undersökte graden av self-efficacy (SE), vilket Albert Bandura (1997) definierade som förmågan att ta sig an en uppgift och slutföra den, samt nå ett på förhand uppsatt mål. Enkäten omfattade även information om studenternas föräldrars utbildningsnivå, studenternas kön, ålder och studieort. Resultaten visade att studenternas SE inte påverkades signifikant av föräldrarnas utbildningsnivå. Inte heller studenternas kön, eller studieort hade någon signifikant påverkan på SE. Däremot fanns en signifikant negativ korrelation mellan studenternas ålder och SE, vilken visade på att i takt med att åldern på studenterna ökade, så minskade deras SE.

This report aims to evaluate the potential of sharing energyregarding heat and cooling between buildings in a smalldecentralized energy system. A model of an energy substation wasdeveloped in IDA ICE Advanced level only system to create a timeefficient tool that is easy to handle for people in the industry.Three cases of building stocks with different heating and coolingdemands were modeled in the energy substation, both separately andcollectively, to investigate the differences in energy performanceas a result of energy recovery between buildings. The study also contained a sociotechnical aspect of thedecentralized energy system. Interviews were carried out to studyhow a mutual energy substation is implemented in reality and whatchallenges and opportunities the technology faces. An importantconclusion is that the future development for this new technologyis highly dependent on an increased cooperation between companiesin the industry.The simulations of the cases showed an improved energy performancefor the mutual energy substations in all three cases, sevenpercent improvement as most. The report concludes that there ispotential for an improved energy performance in a building stockwhen implementing a mutual energy substation since it enables theability to save energy through energy recovery. Furthermore, it isconcluded that a resembling heat and cooling demand within thebuilding stock increases the total energy performance of thesystem. An improved control system of the model is recommendedbefore deciding if and where it is beneficial to implement amutual energy substation.

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The diploma thesis is focused on the development of interpretation of violin playing at the advanced level at music schools. The aim of the thesis is to go through different periods of music development and to deepen the quality of means of reproduction and develop basic principles of interpretation in advanced students on the basis of several selected compositions. Another objective is to handle the practising process of each composition creatively. The work is oriented practically and may become useful for violin teachers and advanced students. The problems connected with violin playing are treated from the point of view of performance. The teaching process goes from imagination to realization where the technical skills are means for the realization of imagination and, simultaneously, the final performance is a great deal influenced by the player's technical skills. Also, the possibilities how to develop musical imagination and accomplish successful realization of the process mentioned above are discussed. The central themes of the thesis are the development of interpretation of violin playing and the problems connected with it, both theoretical and practical. A scheme for the teaching process is defined and the possible ways of application of the scheme during practice are shown on examples of...

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Also available in print.

The purpose of this study was to explore the Zimbabwean physics teachers’ interpretation of the Advanced Level Physics curriculum. The study was motivated by the teachers’ lacklustre approach to adopting new practices and the poor alignment of their understanding with the practice envisaged by developers (Fullan, 2007:39; Ndawi&Maravanyika, 2011:68). Zimbabwean Advanced Level physics teachers are in this predicament, as evidenced by the low numbers of undergraduate students and the misconceptions displayed by physics learners enrolling for first year university work in physics-related disciplines (Kazembe and Musarandega, 2012:4). Having an idea of physics teachers’ perceptions, experiences and current practices with regard to the revised Advanced Level physics curriculum maybe fertile ground for intervention measures and policy decisions. To obtain a more holistic picture of the physics teachers’ practices, a mixed methods research approach using the convergent parallel research design was adopted for the study. A closed survey questionnaire was used to solicit for information from 56 physics teachers in four educational provinces. Random sampling was used to select the survey respondents. From these participants, 10 were purposively selected for face-to-face in-depth structured interviews basing on their availability and accessibility. Ten schemes of work,one from each interviewed teacher, for one school term and six past examination practical paper 4 question papers were collected and analysed using a document analysis guide. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics and chi-square, whereas qualitative data was collated into themes for discussion purposes. The findings of the study reveal that the physics teachers have embraced the ideals of the physics curriculum and adapted it to their operating context through the reiterative interpretation process to construct personal meaning. The teachers are mainly utilising teacher-centred approaches to impart knowledge to the learners which is not consistent with the physics curriculum anticipations of using learner-centred approaches. The physics teachers are superficially interpreting the physics curriculum.The physics teachers need to embrace the learner centred teaching approach andbe empowered to enhance their curriculum interpretation and teaching practices through staff development. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

Este trabalho tem por objetivo sistematizar orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o nível avançado de português como língua adicional (PLA) embasadas na concepção de uso da linguagem como prática social (CLARK, 2000), na perspectiva bakhtiniana de gênero do discurso (BAKHTIN, 2010a) e na convicção de que o objetivo do ensino de línguas é contribuir para a participação mais confiante e autoral dos educandos em esferas de uso da linguagem em que já atuem e em outras nas quais desejem/necessitem atuar (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). Parto do que está proposto como progressão curricular para os níveis básico e intermediário no Programa de Português para Estrangeiros da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), que se baseia na mesma concepção teórico-metodológica adotada aqui. Para compreender o que tem sido descrito como proficiência e objetivos de ensino de língua portuguesa em nível avançado, discuto quatro documentos da área de ensino e avaliação, a saber, o Quadro de Referência para o Ensino de Português no Estrangeiro (GROSSO et al., 2011), os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, 1998), os Referenciais Curriculares do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) e as especificações do Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Além disso, no intuito de verificar como é trabalhado o nível avançado no ensino de PLA, analiso três livros didáticos de nível avançado – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) e Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – e a atual apostila da disciplina de Estudos Avançados do Texto do PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010). Nos documentos e nos materiais, aponto: como é organizada a progressão; qual é a metodologia de ensino proposta; quais são os conteúdos e os objetivos em nível avançado. A partir da análise, apresento possíveis objetivos de ensino para um curso de nível avançado de PLA e os princípios orientadores para o planejamento de unidades didáticas nesse nível, ilustrando-os em uma unidade didática criada por mim. Este trabalho pretende contribuir com orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o ensino de PLA em nível avançado e com uma proposta de referência para a elaboração de unidades didáticas como subsídios para o planejamento de projetos pedagógicos de nível avançado que tenham como objetivo ampliar a participação em diversas práticas sociais que se fazem em língua portuguesa de modo mais autônomo, autoral, confiante e crítico. / This work aims to systematize pedagogical and curriculum guidelines for the advanced level of Portuguese as an additional language (PAL) based on the conception of language use as social practice (CLARK, 2000), Bakhtin's perspective of speech genre (BAKHTIN, 2010a) and the conviction that the goal of language teaching is to contribute for a more confident and authorial participation of students in spheres in which they already perform and in which they need/ would like to perform (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). The bases for the guidelines are the educational goals and the curricular proposal for the Program of Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), informed by the same theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted here. In order to map what has been described as advanced proficiency in Portuguese and advanced PAL teaching objectives, four documents related to Portuguese teaching and assessment are studied, namely the European Framework for Teaching Portuguese Abroad (GROSSO et al. 2011), the National Curriculum Parameters (BRASIL, 1998), the State Standards for Portuguese/English/Spanish Language, Arts and Literacy (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) and the specifications of the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Moreover, in order to verify how the advanced level is dealt with in PAL teaching proposals, three advanced level textbooks – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) and Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – and the current unpublished worksheets and lesson plans designed for Advanced Portuguese Studies at PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010) are analyzed. The analysis of the documents and textbooks focused on the organization of the curricular progression, the teaching methodology, the contents and the objectives for advanced Portuguese. Based on the results of the analysis, PAL teaching objectives for advanced levels and guiding principles for designing teaching units are proposed. A worksheet for an advanced Portuguese class was created to illustrate how to plan a lesson based on the guidelines proposed. This work aims to contribute with curriculum and pedagogical guidelines for advanced level PAL teaching and with a reference proposal for the design of lesson plans whose goals are to engage students in educational projects and foster their participation in various social practices in a more autonomous, authorial, confident and critical way.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo sistematizar orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o nível avançado de português como língua adicional (PLA) embasadas na concepção de uso da linguagem como prática social (CLARK, 2000), na perspectiva bakhtiniana de gênero do discurso (BAKHTIN, 2010a) e na convicção de que o objetivo do ensino de línguas é contribuir para a participação mais confiante e autoral dos educandos em esferas de uso da linguagem em que já atuem e em outras nas quais desejem/necessitem atuar (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). Parto do que está proposto como progressão curricular para os níveis básico e intermediário no Programa de Português para Estrangeiros da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), que se baseia na mesma concepção teórico-metodológica adotada aqui. Para compreender o que tem sido descrito como proficiência e objetivos de ensino de língua portuguesa em nível avançado, discuto quatro documentos da área de ensino e avaliação, a saber, o Quadro de Referência para o Ensino de Português no Estrangeiro (GROSSO et al., 2011), os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, 1998), os Referenciais Curriculares do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) e as especificações do Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Além disso, no intuito de verificar como é trabalhado o nível avançado no ensino de PLA, analiso três livros didáticos de nível avançado – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) e Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – e a atual apostila da disciplina de Estudos Avançados do Texto do PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010). Nos documentos e nos materiais, aponto: como é organizada a progressão; qual é a metodologia de ensino proposta; quais são os conteúdos e os objetivos em nível avançado. A partir da análise, apresento possíveis objetivos de ensino para um curso de nível avançado de PLA e os princípios orientadores para o planejamento de unidades didáticas nesse nível, ilustrando-os em uma unidade didática criada por mim. Este trabalho pretende contribuir com orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o ensino de PLA em nível avançado e com uma proposta de referência para a elaboração de unidades didáticas como subsídios para o planejamento de projetos pedagógicos de nível avançado que tenham como objetivo ampliar a participação em diversas práticas sociais que se fazem em língua portuguesa de modo mais autônomo, autoral, confiante e crítico. / This work aims to systematize pedagogical and curriculum guidelines for the advanced level of Portuguese as an additional language (PAL) based on the conception of language use as social practice (CLARK, 2000), Bakhtin's perspective of speech genre (BAKHTIN, 2010a) and the conviction that the goal of language teaching is to contribute for a more confident and authorial participation of students in spheres in which they already perform and in which they need/ would like to perform (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). The bases for the guidelines are the educational goals and the curricular proposal for the Program of Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), informed by the same theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted here. In order to map what has been described as advanced proficiency in Portuguese and advanced PAL teaching objectives, four documents related to Portuguese teaching and assessment are studied, namely the European Framework for Teaching Portuguese Abroad (GROSSO et al. 2011), the National Curriculum Parameters (BRASIL, 1998), the State Standards for Portuguese/English/Spanish Language, Arts and Literacy (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) and the specifications of the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Moreover, in order to verify how the advanced level is dealt with in PAL teaching proposals, three advanced level textbooks – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) and Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – and the current unpublished worksheets and lesson plans designed for Advanced Portuguese Studies at PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010) are analyzed. The analysis of the documents and textbooks focused on the organization of the curricular progression, the teaching methodology, the contents and the objectives for advanced Portuguese. Based on the results of the analysis, PAL teaching objectives for advanced levels and guiding principles for designing teaching units are proposed. A worksheet for an advanced Portuguese class was created to illustrate how to plan a lesson based on the guidelines proposed. This work aims to contribute with curriculum and pedagogical guidelines for advanced level PAL teaching and with a reference proposal for the design of lesson plans whose goals are to engage students in educational projects and foster their participation in various social practices in a more autonomous, authorial, confident and critical way.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo sistematizar orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o nível avançado de português como língua adicional (PLA) embasadas na concepção de uso da linguagem como prática social (CLARK, 2000), na perspectiva bakhtiniana de gênero do discurso (BAKHTIN, 2010a) e na convicção de que o objetivo do ensino de línguas é contribuir para a participação mais confiante e autoral dos educandos em esferas de uso da linguagem em que já atuem e em outras nas quais desejem/necessitem atuar (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). Parto do que está proposto como progressão curricular para os níveis básico e intermediário no Programa de Português para Estrangeiros da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), que se baseia na mesma concepção teórico-metodológica adotada aqui. Para compreender o que tem sido descrito como proficiência e objetivos de ensino de língua portuguesa em nível avançado, discuto quatro documentos da área de ensino e avaliação, a saber, o Quadro de Referência para o Ensino de Português no Estrangeiro (GROSSO et al., 2011), os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, 1998), os Referenciais Curriculares do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) e as especificações do Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Além disso, no intuito de verificar como é trabalhado o nível avançado no ensino de PLA, analiso três livros didáticos de nível avançado – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) e Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – e a atual apostila da disciplina de Estudos Avançados do Texto do PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010). Nos documentos e nos materiais, aponto: como é organizada a progressão; qual é a metodologia de ensino proposta; quais são os conteúdos e os objetivos em nível avançado. A partir da análise, apresento possíveis objetivos de ensino para um curso de nível avançado de PLA e os princípios orientadores para o planejamento de unidades didáticas nesse nível, ilustrando-os em uma unidade didática criada por mim. Este trabalho pretende contribuir com orientações curriculares e pedagógicas para o ensino de PLA em nível avançado e com uma proposta de referência para a elaboração de unidades didáticas como subsídios para o planejamento de projetos pedagógicos de nível avançado que tenham como objetivo ampliar a participação em diversas práticas sociais que se fazem em língua portuguesa de modo mais autônomo, autoral, confiante e crítico. / This work aims to systematize pedagogical and curriculum guidelines for the advanced level of Portuguese as an additional language (PAL) based on the conception of language use as social practice (CLARK, 2000), Bakhtin's perspective of speech genre (BAKHTIN, 2010a) and the conviction that the goal of language teaching is to contribute for a more confident and authorial participation of students in spheres in which they already perform and in which they need/ would like to perform (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2012). The bases for the guidelines are the educational goals and the curricular proposal for the Program of Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPE) (KRAEMER, 2012), informed by the same theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted here. In order to map what has been described as advanced proficiency in Portuguese and advanced PAL teaching objectives, four documents related to Portuguese teaching and assessment are studied, namely the European Framework for Teaching Portuguese Abroad (GROSSO et al. 2011), the National Curriculum Parameters (BRASIL, 1998), the State Standards for Portuguese/English/Spanish Language, Arts and Literacy (SCHLATTER; GARCEZ, 2009; FILIPOUSKI et al, 2009) and the specifications of the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages – Celpe-Bras (BRASIL, 2006). Moreover, in order to verify how the advanced level is dealt with in PAL teaching proposals, three advanced level textbooks – Português Via Brasil (LIMA; IUNES, 2005), Português para estrangeiros: nível avançado (MARCHANT, 1997) and Panorama Brasil: Ensino do Português como Língua Estrangeira Voltado para o Mundo dos Negócios (PONCE et al, 2006) – and the current unpublished worksheets and lesson plans designed for Advanced Portuguese Studies at PPE (RAMOS et al, 2009/2010) are analyzed. The analysis of the documents and textbooks focused on the organization of the curricular progression, the teaching methodology, the contents and the objectives for advanced Portuguese. Based on the results of the analysis, PAL teaching objectives for advanced levels and guiding principles for designing teaching units are proposed. A worksheet for an advanced Portuguese class was created to illustrate how to plan a lesson based on the guidelines proposed. This work aims to contribute with curriculum and pedagogical guidelines for advanced level PAL teaching and with a reference proposal for the design of lesson plans whose goals are to engage students in educational projects and foster their participation in various social practices in a more autonomous, authorial, confident and critical way.

In this study, we try to discover and analyze the teachers' attitudes towards incorporating the set phrases while teaching Spanish in the advanced level, for example phrases about nationalities and ethnic groups. In addition, we attempt to measure teachers' perspectives towards teaching ethically incorrect phrasal expressions in the classroom. In particular, we focus on the role of the socio-cultural aspect in the learning process of a foreign language. Based on our study, the teachers' perspectives on incorporating those set phrases while teaching Spanish in the advanced level are very positive. Our informants have recognized that the phrases are very common in the Spanish language. In addition, the cultural and historic contents reveal a lot about both the past and the reality of Spain to this day. Almost all informants (except one) have confirmed that they could work with the ethically incorrect phrases in their classes. The phrasal expressions of this type are also commonly used in the Spanish language, so the opinion of our informants is that the best option is to explain them to students and discuss the prejudices they represent in the classroom. Regarding the socio-cultural aspect, the informants agree that it is very important in the process of learning a foreign language because it helps to understand the demeanor of the people from a different culture and facilitates the use of the target language in a suitable context.