The main purpose of this research is to problematize the relationship between the curriculum discourse of the Languages/Libras Course (UFSM Center) and the production of deaf teachers identities in the field of Deaf Education. Such investigation aims at analyzing the articulation between knowledges presented in the curriculum of that course and deaf teachers daily classroom experiences. This research has taken productions from the fields of Cultural Studies in Education and Deaf Studies as theoretical-methodological tools in order to understand how the curriculum has produced the teaching practices of deaf teachers that narrate experiences involved in the articulation between deaf community and deaf education. The empirical corpus of this research consists of three sets of materials: interviews with Libras deaf teachers, questionnaire applied to graduates of the Languages/Libras Course (UFSM Center), and the Proposal and Pedagogic Project of the Brazilian Sign Language Teaching Course. This study attempts to contribute to the deaf education area by regarding the forms of constitution of deaf teachers graduated in the Languages/Libras Course that represent their culture, their language and their subjectivity through the possibilities of meaning exchanges with the members of other deaf groups. It is understood that the narratives and experiences involved in Sign Language teaching are produced and conveyed during such meaning exchanges. Hence, deaf educators become producers of deaf difference, thus strengthening their pedagogical experience in the field of deaf education; such effects can be perceived in the deaf teachers education in the Languages/Libras Course. The deaf teachers negotiate, consume and spread different meanings concerning language, culture and identity in the context of inclusion education. Therefore, the deaf are seen as both producers and consumers of deaf culture. Inclusion education policies, regarded from the perspective of this analysis, are understood as a bio-political investment, since they are strategies that control, govern and rule deaf subjects actions and conducts by boosting Libras teachers self-government and self-investment practices. / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo principal problematizar a relação estabelecida entre o discurso curricular do curso de Letras/Libras (Polo UFSM) e a produção de identidades surdas docentes no campo da Educação de Surdos. Tal empreendimento investigativo propõe analisar a articulação entre os conhecimentos apresentados no currículo do referido curso e as experiências do cotidiano da sala de aula de professores surdos. Para isso, esta pesquisa toma como ferramentas teórico-metodológicas as produções dos campos dos Estudos Culturais em Educação e dos Estudos Surdos, a fim de compreender como esse currículo produz a docência de professores surdos que narram suas experiências envolvidas na articulação entre a comunidade surda e a educação de surdos. O corpus empírico da pesquisa está composto por três grupos de materiais: entrevistas com professoras surdas docentes de Libras, questionário com egressos do curso de Letras/Libras Polo UFSM e Proposta e Projeto Pedagógico do curso de Licenciatura de Letras Língua Brasileira de Sinais. Este trabalho de pesquisa pretende contribuir para a área da educação de surdos, entendendo as formas de constituição dos professores surdos do curso de Letras/Libras, que representam a sua cultura, a sua língua e a sua subjetividade através da possibilidade de trocas de significados em relação aos membros de outros grupos de surdos. Entende-se que, nessas trocas de significados, são produzidas e transmitidas as narrativas e experiências implicadas no ensino de Língua de Sinais. Com isso, o educador surdo torna-se constituidor de uma diferença surda, potencializando sua experiência pedagógica para o campo da educação de surdos; esses efeitos são perceptíveis na formação dos docentes surdos do curso de Letras/Libras. Esses docentes surdos negociam, consomem e fazem circular diferentes significados em torno das questões da língua, da cultura e da identidade no contexto da educação inclusiva. Portanto, os surdos são vistos como produtores e consumidores de cultura surda. As políticas de educação inclusiva, a partir da perspectiva em análise, são entendidas como um investimento biopolítico, pois se constituem como estratégias que controlam, governam e regulam as ações e as condutas dos sujeitos surdos, potencializando as práticas de autogovernamento e autoinvestimento dos professores de Libras.

M.Ed. (Educational Linguistics) / The construct of this study consists of the perceptions and experiences of the teachers and students of initial reading at Sizwile School for the Deaf in urban South Africa. This investigation focuses on a Sub B class, in which Sign Language is the means of communication. The research design is exploratory and descriptive as it aims to explore, describe and clarify the children's apprehension of reading. This could yield new knowledge which is rooted in a specific and complex context. The process is conducted by means of a case study (monographic study) design which includes mostly qualitative methods for data collection. The rationale for this study is that respondents' personal (ernic) views, obtained from a "bottom-up" research mode could bring more light to the body of knowledge of deaf education in South Africa. Insufficient rigorous research, the lack of educational policy, lack of more input in South African curriculum for the deaf and limited cohesive instructional theory in South African deaf education motivated the researcher to initiate this investigation. The rationale of this stidy thus circulated from the theoretical and physical context of deaf education in South Africa, as well as the researcher's personal experiential knowledge as a teacher in the only school for the deaf around Soweto (a Black Township). The research question in this inquiry has been conceptualised in a maze of conflicting opinions and practices regarding the education of the deaf and the teaching of initial reading. The experiences, activities and perceptions of a single class within a school for the deaf was explored and described argumentatively in the light of contemporary theories on language, learning, reading and deaf education. Perspectives on learning to read are discussed in order to contextualise the individual's learning to read. Also included are theories of language and of learning, presented to provide a backdrop against which the practices in deaf education will be discussed. Language is subsequently discussed as medium of communication in the education process, with a closer focus on instruction in the first language (Sign Language) of the deaf child. The other part of the conceptual framework covers reading across the curriculum. The theoretical framework is presented as support structure for the research construct and also to problematise the research question (problem) from complementary angles.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:24:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 keyla_maria_santana_silva.pdf: 2407164 bytes, checksum: 0b8beb2e083147206afceea62ee3cd57 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-06 / The inclusion of deaf education represented an advance in Brazilian public policies bringing reflections on the acquisition of Pounds and Portuguese writing, these issues that still demand studies because we can not yet say that issues are resolved. We know that the deaf has special characteristics that must be respected in order to overcome the barrier that still stands in front by the difficulty that the bilingual school has to work with him in texts written in Portuguese. The aim of this study was to analyze the textual production in Pounds and Portuguese writing of deaf students of the 5th year of basic education in public schools in the city of Recife. To settle some doubts and move forward in this process as we seek to substantiate the authors Tables, Lodi, Marcuschi, Mittler, Fernandes, Koch, Philip, Krashen, among others investigating linguistic aspects and processes of textualization interlanguage. We conducted a survey of descriptive qualitative study, researching in four schools, twelve deaf students and four teachers in these institutions. We found that students in special rooms showed a slight gain with respect to the domain in the use of cohesion and coherence as well as stages of interlanguage, than those who attended the inclusive rooms. However, the data did not show significant results in significantly textual production of special rooms for students when compared to students' texts inclusive rooms given the best conditions that have special rooms, indicating that we need to keep us attentive to issues involving pedagogical this process. We hope to be contributing so there is a further evolution in relation to the performance of deaf students when they express themselves in both languages. / A inclusão educacional de surdos representou um avanço nas políticas públicas brasileiras. Ela trouxe consigo a necessidade de reflexões sobre o processo de aquisição da Libras e do Português escrito, questões essas que ainda demandam estudos pelo fato de não podermos afirmar que são questões resolvidas. Sabemos que o surdo apresenta características especiais no que tange a sua comunicação, que precisam ser respeitadas a fim de que possa superar a grande barreira que ainda se coloca à sua frente pela dificuldade que a escola bilíngue apresenta para trabalhar com ele na produção de textos escritos em português. O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar a produção textual em Libras e em Português escrito de alunos surdos do 5º ano da Educação Básica em escolas públicas da cidade de Recife. Para tratar do tema nos fundamentamos em autores, dentre outros: Quadros, Lodi, Botelho, Marcuschi, Mittler, Fernandes, Koch, Felipe, Krashen, que investigaram aspectos linguísticos relacionados com processos de funcionamento do sistema linguístico, textualização e interlíngua. Realizamos uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo descritivo, pesquisando em quatro escolas públicas, textos de doze alunos surdos e entrevistando quatro professores pertencentes a essas escolas. Constatamos que os textos dos alunos das salas especiais apresentaram um leve ganho no que concerne à coesão e coerência e estágios de interlíngua, em relação aqueles dos alunos surdos que frequentavam as salas inclusivas. No entanto, esse resultado deveria ter mostrado ganhos muito mais expressivos nas salas especiais, dadas as melhores condições de que dispõem, demonstrando que precisamos manter-nos atentos para questões pedagógicas que envolvem esse processo e que talvez não estejam sendo devidamente aproveitadas. Esperamos estar contribuindo para ampliar as reflexões sobre o contexto de formação dos profissionais que lidam com surdos, e, consequentemente trazer melhorias para o desempenho desses alunos, na escrita em língua portuguesa.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:25:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ana_maria_zulema_pinto_cabral_nobrega.pdf: 12004124 bytes, checksum: 44739c8eafc020d130b4b7e4dc88e962 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-26 / The education to the deaf, throughout history, has received influences of different educational philosophies, among which stand out the oralism, Total Communication and bilingualism. Law 10,436 / 02 - regulated by Decree 5626/05 - LIBRAS recognizes as the natural language of Brazilian deaf and ensures these teaching LIBRAS as L1 and L2 writing Portuguese. This Decree establishes that teacher training should occur in LIBRAS courses Letters / LIBRAS. Meeting these requirements UFPB, in partnership with the Open University of Brazil (UAB), proposes the Degree in Letters / LIBRAS in Distance Education mode, beyond the EAD in the year 2010. The pioneer class, closed at 2013.2, received deaf students and listeners. By this way, the course offered by UFPB, being in DL mode, and requires at the same time, offers your students practice multiple literacies. However, on the basis of such practices is the use and knowledge of L1. In this sense, we ask: how is the linguistic knowledge of the LIBRAS to deaf to hold the University ingression? How the deaf are dealing with the new practices of multiliteracies required by new information technologies? Faced with this reality, this research had as main objective to investigate the LIBRAS linguistic contributions, acquired during the course of Letters / LIBRAS - UAB / UFPB - which favored the numerous possibilities of practical multiliteracies of their deaf students. The reports of the deafwere collected in interviews conducted during the period from May 28 to June 5, 2014, with four deaf citizens of the City of Campina Grande - PB, who joined the pioneer class of the aforementioned course. Our theoretical framework was based on studies of enunciative Bakhtin, in sociocultural studies of literacy Rojo, Street, Lemke, in addition to research on the late acquisition of LIBRAS as L1 for the deaf and Bilingual education for these developed by Souza and Quadros. Based upon the above theoretical and the data collected identified that investigated subjects: a) They had delayed acquisition of their L1, the LIBRAS; b) entered the University with deficits in basic linguistic knowledge of their L1, LIBRAS; c) They had, for the first time, the opportunity to study linguistic aspects of LIBRAS in the Course of Arts / LIBRA Sand d) by appropriating the language skills of LIBRAS, offered in the aforementioned course, have their practices of multiliteracies enlarged. In this perspective, this study not only identifies the relationship of language knowledge of LIBRAS with different literacies practices but provides an overview of how basic education was the subject investigated. / A educação de surdos, ao longo da história, tem recebido influências de diferentes filosofias educacionais, dentre as quais se destacam o Oralismo, a Comunicação Total e o Bilinguísmo. A Lei 10.436/02 reconhece a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) como a língua natural dos surdos brasileiros e lhes assegura o ensino da Libras como L1 e do Português escrito como L2. Para atender a essas exigências a Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) em parceria com a Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UAB), propõe o curso de Licenciatura em Letras/Libras, na modalidade Educação a Distância, doravante EAD, no ano de 2010. A turma pioneira, encerrada em 2013.2, recebeu alunos surdos e ouvintes. Nesta perspectiva, o curso por ser na modalidade EAD, requer e, ao mesmo tempo, oferece ao seu aluno, dentre outras propostas, práticas de multiletramentos, que exigem o uso e conhecimento da Libras como L1. Neste sentido, questionamos: como está o conhecimento linguístico da Libras que os surdos detêm ao ingressarem na Universidade? Como esses sujeitos estão lidando com as novas práticas de multiletramentos exigidas pelas novas tecnologias informacionais? Frente a tal realidade, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar as contribuições linguísticas da Libras, adquiridas durante o Curso de Letras/Libras UAB/UFPB - que favoreceram às inúmeras possibilidades de práticas de multiletramentos dos seus alunos surdos. Para alcançarmos nosso intuito realizamos, no período entre 23 de maio a 06 de junho de 2014, entrevistas com quatro sujeitos surdos da Cidade de Campina Grande PB, que ingressaram na turma pioneira do curso supracitado. Posteriormente, consultamos o Projeto Político Pedagógico e roteiros semanais das disciplinas cujas ementas tratavam: a) ensino de Libras como L1 e b) abordaram conteúdos linguístico de Libras. Na análise, comparamos as falas dos sujeitos com as proposituras das atividades selecionadas. Como referencial teórico desta pesquisa adotamos os estudos enunciativos de Bakhtin, os estudos socioculturais de letramento de Rojo, Street, Lemke, além das pesquisas acerca da aquisição tardia da Libras como L1 para os surdos, bem como do ensino Bilíngue para estes desenvolvidas por Souza e Quadros. Identificamos, a partir dos dados analisados, que os sujeitos investigados: a) Tiveram aquisição tardia da sua L1, a Libras; b) Ingressaram na Universidade com déficits de conhecimentos linguísticos básicos da sua L1, Libras; c) Tiveram, pela primeira vez, a oportunidade de estudar aspectos linguísticos da Libras no Curso de Letras/Libras; e d) Que a apropriação dos conhecimentos linguísticos contribuiu para a ampliação de diferentes práticas de multiletramentos de seus alunos surdos, através do uso dos recursos da tecnologia informacional e de um maior acesso às informações veiculadas na mídia, propiciando produções acadêmicas e literárias. Nesta perspectiva, o presente estudo, não só identifica a relação dos conhecimentos linguísticos da Libras com as diferentes práticas de letramentos, mas também oferece uma visão panorâmica de como foi a educação básica dos sujeitos investigados além de trazer contribuições significativas para a educação de surdos e de se constituir importante subsídio para as futuras investigações nas áreas de surdez, multiletramentos e EAD.

Mastery of basic concepts is an academic building block for preschool children in early education programs. Research shows that understanding basic concepts (e.g. top, under, fast, now, all, behind, full and short) is important for academic success and higher order thinking. Experts in the field of concept acquisition agree on six strategies for teaching basic concepts. These strategies include: using positive examples and negative examples, highlighting critical features of concepts through continuous conversion, isolating the concept, the order in which the examples are presented, and teaching generalization. This study investigated the extent to which nine preschool teachers of children with hearing loss used four of the six strategies (using examples, non examples, continuous conversion, and isolating the concept) during a 20-minute lesson in which a new basic concept was taught. Results indicated that teachers do well with using examples to teach basic concepts, but they lack sufficient use of the other three strategies for teaching basic concepts.

In der Arbeit wird die Lesekompetenz von SchülerInnen in Hörgeschädigtenschulen untersucht. Es werden Verfahren genutzt, die im Rahmen der aktuellen Bildungsevaluation nach der PISA- und IGLU-Studie zum Einsatz kommen. In den drei durchgeführten Teiluntersuchungen ist die Klasse des Berliner Schulversuchs als Beispiel eines bilingualen (d. h. gebärden-, laut- und schriftsprachlichen Unterrichts) beteiligt: a) 49 hörgeschädigte ViertklässlerInnen werden mit Hilfe einer IGLU-Textaufgabe untersucht. b) Es wird die VERA-Deutscharbeit 2005 von 57 hörgeschädigten ViertklässlerInnen evaluiert. c) Eine schulweite Studie zur Lesekompetenz an der Ernst-Adolf-Eschke-Schule wird vorgestellt, in der 34 zumeist hochgradig hörgeschädigte Viert- bis NeuntklässlerInnen unter identischen Bedingungen (mit der VERA-Deutscharbeit 2005) evaluiert werden. Eine auf nationalen und internationalen Vorstudien basierende forschungsleitende Hypothese bestätigt sich: Bei gehörlosen und schwerhörigen SchülerInnen in einem weitgehend lautsprachlichen Unterricht findet sich ein Zusammenhang zwischen Hörstatus und Schriftsprachkompetenz. In einem bilingualen Konzept, das für alle SchülerInnen eine funktionale Basissprache zur Verfügung stellt, ist dieser Zusammenhang nicht gegeben oder wird abgeschwächt. So übertrifft die bilinguale vierte Klasse in der schulweiten Untersuchung alle anderen Gruppen, bis hin zur neunten Klasse. Die bilingualen SchülerInnen haben ein entwickeltes diskursstrukturelles Verständnis, exekutives Metawissen und zeigen flexible Schriftspracherwerbsverläufe. Insgesamt liegen die Ergebnisse der hörgeschädigten SchülerInnen unter der hörenden Altersnorm, wobei sich die Variable eines nicht-deutschsprachigen Elternhauses bzw. Migrationshintergrundes als weiteres entscheidendes Merkmal erweist, das sich belastend auf die Entwicklung der Lesekompetenz auswirkt, und SchülerInnen mit einem CI in den beteiligten Hörgeschädigtenklassen überwiegend schwache Ergebnisse erzielen. / The research project focuses on reading literacy in students in schools for the deaf and hard-of- hearing. Research methods are based on current evaluation programs in educational science, following the example of the PISA and IGLU (international name: PIRLS) studies. Three smaller studies are presented, each of which includes a bilingual trial class at the Berlin School for the Deaf, where deaf students are educated by means of sign, spoken, and written language combined: a) 49 hearing impaired fourth graders are evaluated with the help of an IGLU-task. b) A nationwide German test (VERA-Deutscharbeit 2005) of 57 hearing impaired fourth graders is examined. c) At the Berlin School for the Deaf 34 mostly deaf fourth to ninth graders are tested under identical conditions (using the VERA-Deutscharbeit 2005). The results support findings indicated by previous national and international studies: in an educational environment where spoken language is the main means of instruction hearing loss is an important predictor for low literacy. In a bilingual class all students have access to at least one language. Here, the influence of hearing loss as a predictor is weakened or vanishes. The bilingual fourth graders show better results than any other class of their school including ninth graders. They have a higher understanding of the structures of discourse, more highly developed meta-cognitive skills and show flexible ways in the acquisition of written language. The overall results of the deaf and hard-of-hearing students are significantly below the hearing age norm. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students with non-German speaking parents show lower results than those with German-speaking parents. Within this study the majority of children with cochlear-implants produces very weak results.

Children with disabilities are three to four times more likely to be abused than their non-disabled peers due to the impact of challenges related to behavior, cognition, language, social skills, and communication skills. In September of 2018, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) specifically noted the need to establish maltreatment prevention and response curricula and promote research and advocacy surrounding maltreatment of children with disabilities. One common curriculum recommended is Kidpower®. While Kidpower® shows promise in increasing people safety skills and offers some basic accommodations for use with disabled populations, a complete accommodation plan for deaf or hard of hearing students has not been developed. The purpose of this study was to explore how Kidpower® curriculum could be accommodated to meet the unique needs of deaf and hard of hearing students from the perspective of the deaf education community, including deaf adults, deaf education teachers, deaf education teacher preparation faculty, and parents with deaf or hard of hearing children. A combination of focus groups and interviews were utilized to review lessons and homework from the Kidpower® curriculum. Participants gave feedback on obstacles and ideas for accommodations and modifications that would mediate the challenges. Data were inductively coded and analyzed for themes. Findings indicated the deaf education community believes the curriculum needs media components, language modifications and teaching strategies, enhanced visual information, and representation of people and situations related to the lives of deaf and hard of hearing children to be an effective curriculum for this population.

Signed language interpreting in South Africa has not received much academic attention, despite the profession having undergone major transformation since the advent of democracy. This study aims to create a better understanding of signed language interpreters’ behaviour in one specific setting in South Africa – post-secondary education. During the researcher’s own practice as an educational interpreter at a post-secondary institution, she experienced role conflict and found little information available to assist her in making professional decisions on which direction to take. This provided the impetus to embark on this research. The study begins by outlining the field of liaison interpreting and educational interpreting, and examining the existing literature regarding the interpreter’s role and norms in interpreting. It then goes on to examine authentic interpreted texts, filmed in actual lectures in post-secondary settings. These texts are analysed with reference to interpreter shifts and deviations from the source text, with particular focus on interpreter-generated utterances (additions), borrowing (fingerspelling), omissions (both errors and conscious choice) and various types of collaboration between the interpreter and primary participants. These shifts are examined in more detail to explore whether they indicate any change in the interpreter’s role. Further, interpreters’ own views about their practice, elicited from individual interviews, enable the reader to understand how the interpreters view the role(s) that they fulfil. The research will provide information for interpreter trainers about the roles assumed by SASL interpreters in higher education and provide a platform from which to scaffold future educational interpreter research and training. / Linguistics / M.A. (Linguistics)

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