This study was designed to investigate the impact of family cultural capital on reading motivation and reading behavior among new immigrant children and non-immigrant children. This research used Chang and Wang's family cultural capital, reading motivation, and reading behavior questionnaire to conduct the survey. The target population of this study was students enrolled in fifth grade and sixth grade in elementary school in the fall of 2017 in Tainan, Taiwan. The sample include 414 students from new immigrant families and 422 students from non-immigrant families; the total number of individuals was 837. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analytical procedures were performed to test the hypothesized relationships. The results indicate that the seven latent variables were related to each other directly or indirectly. The main findings of this study are as follows: 1) family socioeconomic status significantly affects students' acquisition of family cultural capital; 2) family reading habits significantly affect students' reading motivation; 3) intrinsic reading motivation significantly affects students' reading behavior; and 4) external reading motivation shows no direct significant effect on reading time or the number of items read.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the literacy environment at home, at school and in the community and the development of voluntary reading and thus a reading habit. This research is relevant as there is an alarming drop out rate, poor matriculation results and low scores in reading performance tests in South African schools. Many factors and possible causes can contribute to this, but a major problem is the lack of a reading habit, low literacy levels and an environment that is not supportive of literacy. As a result, many children are still leaving school functionally illiterate. In order to develop a reading habit, learners must get maximum support and encouragement from their literacy environment, as children learn from what is going on around them. The major role players in the learner's literacy environment, are the home and family (microstructure), the school and teachers, and his community which includes libraries (macrostructure). A literature study on the foundations, contexts and practices of literacy, voluntary reading and environmental factors that affect reading provides the theoretical basis and a conceptual framework for this study. The research method used is a case study with the focus on a sample of learners from Grade 3 - 7 from schools in the Highveld Ridge and Gauteng East area. Due to budgetary and logistical constraints, rural areas are not included. The empirical survey investigates various aspects of the literacy environment. The survey method, with questionnaires for learners, teachers and headmasters, was used. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to generate data. The findings are that many learners experience difficulties which hinder the development of a reading habit, for example: schools and communities do not have libraries, or access to them is limited; appropriate reading materials are not available; or learners do not have access to them; multilingualism is a major problem in a country with eleven official languages, as many learners have to learn and teachers have to teach in a language other than their mother tongue; parents are not literate and cannot help their children; socio-economic conditions are not conductive to reading; there is a lack of support from governmental at various levels. Although findings in a case study cannot be generalised, certain conclusions and suggestions can guide teachers, parents and librarians to create a more supportive literacy environment to encourage voluntary reading. / Information Science / M.A. (Information Science)

Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Linguistics)

The purpose of this project is to develop a resource of techniques using children's literature which will increase interest in reading for students who have met the minimum standards of reading for their grade level. The completed curriculum is to be used in grades kindergarten through six, with a flexible time limit of thirty to forty-five minutes per day, for fifteen school days.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-27T12:27:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Pereira dos Santos.pdf: 490426 bytes, checksum: b1cc33abadecf499c09105e191cefaf6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-27T12:27:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Pereira dos Santos.pdf: 490426 bytes, checksum: b1cc33abadecf499c09105e191cefaf6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present research develops a reflection upon the formation of the literary reader, it aims at establishing a set of methodological propositions regarding the teaching of poetry to middle school students in a public-school environment. The book Antologia poética de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, organized in 1962 by the author himself, constitutes the corpus of the research. This book, from which we selected five poems, was distributed to every public school in the state of São Paulo back in 2010. The selected poems were: “Poema de Sete Faces”, “Cidadezinha Qualquer”, “Retrato de família”, “Quadrilha” and “No meio do caminho”. The selection criteria considered the reading experiment I had previously conducted with 9th grade students from a public school in the city of Sorocaba, where I work as a teacher. The experiment brought up the research problem: the idea of establishing new strategies to teach poetry to middle school students, aiming at improving their competencies as literary readers, in a context so adverse that privileges the teaching practices of the Portuguese language, reducing the literary text to a speech genre, amongst many others. The hypothesis we propose is that methodological strategies of literary reading based on the concept of performance – as discussed by the medievalist, writer and researcher of the voice, Paul Zumthor (1915-1995), that is, a present act that strongly engages the voice, the body and the other senses of the student-reader, – could lead to effective results as to perceive the poem as a scene in which the student-reader is an active interpreter, and whose subjectivity will interact with the alterity of the poem, awakening perceptive channels, in the learning process. The hypothesis analysis required two steps: firstly, through critical reading mediation, we selected in each poetic text – multisensory calligraphic body that connects word-sound-image-meaning – the vocal potentialities that make it art, that is, the vivid performance of the interpreter’s voice and body happening here and now, in the context of the classroom. Advancing into step two, we established three core methodological propositions – the vocalization, the reading-writing of the poem interpretation, and the fictional alterity interpretation. Proposing strategies to improve the literary reader competencies is the contribution of this research to the teaching of literature in the middle school environment / Esta pesquisa desenvolve uma reflexão sobre a formação do leitor literário, com o objetivo de elaborar um conjunto de proposições metodológicas para o ensino da poesia no contexto do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública. O corpus é a Antologia poética de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, organizada pelo próprio autor em 1962. O livro foi distribuído em toda a Rede Pública de Ensino do Estado de São Paulo, em 2010, e dele selecionamos cinco poemas: “Poema de Sete Faces”, “Cidadezinha Qualquer”, “Retrato de família”, “Quadrilha” e “No meio do caminho”. O critério de seleção considerou o experimento de leitura que realizei, anteriormente, com alunos do 9º ano de uma escola pública de Sorocaba, na qual sou docente. Desse experimento, surgiu a problemática desta pesquisa: a de elaborar novas estratégias de ensino de poesia, no ensino fundamental, que levem à formação do leitor literário num contexto adverso, que privilegia as práticas de ensino da língua portuguesa, reduzindo a literatura a um gênero de discurso dentre tantos outros. A hipótese que projetamos é a de que estratégias metodológicas de leitura literária sob a ótica da performance – segundo a concepção do medievalista, escritor e pesquisador da voz, Paul Zumthor (1915-1995) –, isto é, um ato presencial de forte empenho da voz, do corpo e de todos os sentidos do aluno-leitor, poderiam levar a resultados eficazes para a percepção do poema. Como em uma cena, o aluno-leitor é um intérprete ativo, cuja subjetividade interage com a alteridade do poema, e, nesse processo de aprendizagem, desperta canais perceptivos adormecidos. A análise da hipótese nos conduziu a duas etapas: na primeira, por meio de nossa mediação de leitura crítica, retiramos de cada texto poético – corpo caligráfico multissensorial entre palavra-som-imagem-sentido – as potencialidades vocais, que farão dele obra, isto é, performance viva no aqui e agora da voz e do corpo do intérprete, no contexto da sala de aula. A partir daí, estabelecemos três núcleos de proposições metodológicas: o de vocalização, o de ler-escrever a leitura e o de interpretar a alteridade ficcional. Este lance propositivo de estratégias para a formação do leitor literário é a contribuição desta dissertação para o ensino da literatura no ensino fundamental

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the literacy environment at home, at school and in the community and the development of voluntary reading and thus a reading habit. This research is relevant as there is an alarming drop out rate, poor matriculation results and low scores in reading performance tests in South African schools. Many factors and possible causes can contribute to this, but a major problem is the lack of a reading habit, low literacy levels and an environment that is not supportive of literacy. As a result, many children are still leaving school functionally illiterate. In order to develop a reading habit, learners must get maximum support and encouragement from their literacy environment, as children learn from what is going on around them. The major role players in the learner's literacy environment, are the home and family (microstructure), the school and teachers, and his community which includes libraries (macrostructure). A literature study on the foundations, contexts and practices of literacy, voluntary reading and environmental factors that affect reading provides the theoretical basis and a conceptual framework for this study. The research method used is a case study with the focus on a sample of learners from Grade 3 - 7 from schools in the Highveld Ridge and Gauteng East area. Due to budgetary and logistical constraints, rural areas are not included. The empirical survey investigates various aspects of the literacy environment. The survey method, with questionnaires for learners, teachers and headmasters, was used. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to generate data. The findings are that many learners experience difficulties which hinder the development of a reading habit, for example: schools and communities do not have libraries, or access to them is limited; appropriate reading materials are not available; or learners do not have access to them; multilingualism is a major problem in a country with eleven official languages, as many learners have to learn and teachers have to teach in a language other than their mother tongue; parents are not literate and cannot help their children; socio-economic conditions are not conductive to reading; there is a lack of support from governmental at various levels. Although findings in a case study cannot be generalised, certain conclusions and suggestions can guide teachers, parents and librarians to create a more supportive literacy environment to encourage voluntary reading. / Information Science / M.A. (Information Science)

Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Linguistics)

No contexto escolar, a leitura literária tem recebido um tratamento geralmente voltado para a decodificação do texto verbal e para o encaminhamento didático de outros conteúdos, distanciando-se, desse modo, de práticas que discutam a sua natureza simbólica. Ultrapassar essa tendência é possível, priorizando ações para a efetivação da leitura que produzam sentido e contribuam para a formação do leitor. Diante disso, em defesa da real escolarização da Literatura conjugada à formação do leitor e de um projeto de educação voltado à formação do aluno numa perspectiva emancipatória, é que originou-se este estudo. A investigação analisa a aplicação real da literatura numa turma de primeiro ano do Ensino Fundamental. Nesse sentido, a dissertação examina as implicações do processo de mediação da leitura literária e a sua contribuição ou não para a implementação de ações que contemplem a leitura na infância, no início do processo de alfabetização. A coleta de dados foi realizada através da observação direta de aulas de literatura. As obras estudadas e aplicadas nas vivências escolares foram História em três atos, de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós, e O bicho folharal, de Ângela Lago, que pertencem ao acervo do Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola (PNBE 2008). Os dados levantados a partir das observações durante as mediações das leituras das narrativas foram analisados, considerando-se o processo de significação atribuído ao texto pelas crianças quanto às suas peculiaridades, à identificação do leitor mirim com os personagens, ao preenchimento dos vazios textuais, bem como a concretização da leitura do texto ficcional como experiência. Constatou-se que, para avançar na escolarização adequada da Literatura Infantil, há que se investir no processo de letramento literário, associando as linguagens verbo-visuais, com vistas à real efetivação da mediação da leitura literária como experiência, enfatizando sua dimensão humanizadora e, assim, contribuindo para a formação dos estudantes. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-06-04T18:17:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Judithe Eva Dupont Lo.pdf: 3019008 bytes, checksum: 98fbcd48b52bf5bbdb1a5b1d90521092 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-04T18:17:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Judithe Eva Dupont Lo.pdf: 3019008 bytes, checksum: 98fbcd48b52bf5bbdb1a5b1d90521092 (MD5)

No contexto escolar, a leitura literária tem recebido um tratamento geralmente voltado para a decodificação do texto verbal e para o encaminhamento didático de outros conteúdos, distanciando-se, desse modo, de práticas que discutam a sua natureza simbólica. Ultrapassar essa tendência é possível, priorizando ações para a efetivação da leitura que produzam sentido e contribuam para a formação do leitor. Diante disso, em defesa da real escolarização da Literatura conjugada à formação do leitor e de um projeto de educação voltado à formação do aluno numa perspectiva emancipatória, é que originou-se este estudo. A investigação analisa a aplicação real da literatura numa turma de primeiro ano do Ensino Fundamental. Nesse sentido, a dissertação examina as implicações do processo de mediação da leitura literária e a sua contribuição ou não para a implementação de ações que contemplem a leitura na infância, no início do processo de alfabetização. A coleta de dados foi realizada através da observação direta de aulas de literatura. As obras estudadas e aplicadas nas vivências escolares foram História em três atos, de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós, e O bicho folharal, de Ângela Lago, que pertencem ao acervo do Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola (PNBE 2008). Os dados levantados a partir das observações durante as mediações das leituras das narrativas foram analisados, considerando-se o processo de significação atribuído ao texto pelas crianças quanto às suas peculiaridades, à identificação do leitor mirim com os personagens, ao preenchimento dos vazios textuais, bem como a concretização da leitura do texto ficcional como experiência. Constatou-se que, para avançar na escolarização adequada da Literatura Infantil, há que se investir no processo de letramento literário, associando as linguagens verbo-visuais, com vistas à real efetivação da mediação da leitura literária como experiência, enfatizando sua dimensão humanizadora e, assim, contribuindo para a formação dos estudantes.

This study is part of a larger research programme that seeks to contribute towards an understanding of South Africa's complex literacy landscape and formulate strategies that may address these particularly in the Foundation Phase. It is a case study of one public primary school in Grahamstown where isiXhosa is used as a medium of instruction until Grade 3, after which the medium of instruction changes to English. This transition is not helped by the little reading that happens in the language at the FP. The learners under study are Grade 3 isiXhosa first language speakers, learning English as a First Additional Language (FAL) with limited exposure to the language. Through a qualitative participatory action research process, the study investigated the extent to which a reading club in general and a responsive reading programme in particular, might develop learners' English vocabulary at this particular school. The value of reading clubs as a vehicle for second language learning as well as the importance of considering learner needs in the development of the reading programme are key contributions this study makes. The study draws on social constructivism as a theoretical framework based on the principle that learning is a social acitvity. Vygotsky (1978) states that language learning (LL) takes place through interactions in meaningful events, rather that through isolated language activities. The process is seen as holistic, that is, each mode of language supoorts and enhances overall language development. Furthermore, LL develops in relation to the context in which it is used, that is, it develops according to the situation, the topic under discussion and the relationship betwwen participants. Language also develops through active engagement of the learners. The role of the teacher or a more competent other is then seen as that of a facilitator in a learning context in which learners are viewed as equally capable of contributing to their learning through learning from and with each other (Holt and Willard-Holt, 2000). Vygotsky's theory of social interaction has been influential in highlighting the important role of social and cultural contexts in extending children's learning. The preliminary results of this study point toward the importance of the learning environment, particularly an informal environment in second language development. The results also highlight the need for learners (a) to be provided with opportunities to engage with meaningful and authentic texts, (b) to be allowed to make their own book choices, (c) to participate in large group, small group and individual activities to enable them to engage with a variety of texts, and (d) to confront vocabulary in a variety of ways through multiple texts and genres.