The present study evaluates the language improvement courses in the undergraduate curriculum of the Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) at Eastern Mediterranean University. The language improvement courses are: Oral Communication Skills I and II, Reading Skills I, II, and Advanced Reading Skills, Writing Skills I, II and Advanced Writing Skills, and English Grammar I and II. In this evaluation study, the adapted version of Bellon and Handler&rsquo / s (1982) curriculum evaluation model was employed. The participants of the study were six instructors teaching the language improvement courses and students enrolled in these courses. The data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected through course evaluation questionnaires for students, interviews with students and teachers, classroom observations, and examination of relevant written documents such as course policy sheets, course materials, and assessment tools used in the courses. The results of the study show that generally the language improvement courses were effective in terms of five aspects specified in the evaluation model employed in the study, as perceived by the students and the instructors. However, the students and the instructors suggested making some changes to the existing language improvement courses to make them more effective and better adjusted to the students&rsquo / needs and expectations. Some important conclusions drawn and recommendations made were: Practice (i.e. practice and production) component in the language improvement courses should be enhanced, a wider variety of authentic materials should be used in the courses, various methods and activities should be utilized in teaching-learning process, and intra-subject and inter-subject relationships (i.e. continuity and coherence) between or among the courses need to be strengthened.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 ramos_fs_dr_sjrp.pdf: 3185749 bytes, checksum: 80a5bf0c876c25f60879120f3ee1c8f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo estudar a inter-relação entre as emoções vivenciadas por professoras de língua inglesa em formação inicial e o processo de (re)construção de identidades profissionais. Para tanto, busco na teoria históricocultural (JOHNSON, 2009; JOHNSON e GOLOMBEK, 2011; JOHNSON e GOLOMBEK, 2016), baseada nos estudos de Vigotski e da Psicologia HistóricoCultural (VIGOTSKI, 2007, 2009, 2010; RATNER, 1995), fundamentos para explicar os fenômenos sob investigação. Emoções, portanto, são compreendidas como funções psicológicas superiores que têm influência direta na prática do sujeito historicamente situado (VIGOTSKI, 2004; 2010; TOASSA, 2009, 2011). Identidades, sob esse viés, é um conceito definido como papeis desempenhados pelo sujeito em um contexto sociocultural. São construídas no processo de interação social, por meio da mediação da linguagem e processos cognitivos (GOFFMAN, 1985; CIAMPA, 1984, 1998, 2007; De COSTA, 2017; BARKHUIZEN, 2017; LEIBOWITZ, 2017). A pesquisa foi realizada no contexto de um projeto de extensão de ensino de línguas estrangeiras, com duas professoras de língua inglesa em formação inicial. Os dados foram gerados e coletados durante dois semestres letivos por intermédio de narrativas de experiência, entrevistas orais para geração de história de vida, observação e gravação de aulas, sessões de visionamento e entrevista sobre emoções (CLARÀ, 2015). A análise dos dados sugere uma inter-relação de natureza recíproca entre as emoções vivenciadas pelas participantes e as identidades profissionais construídas e negociadas em sua prática pedagógica. As emoções atuam como mediação entre o profissional e sua ação, fator essencial para a construção de uma identidade. Revelam ainda uma gama de emoções vivenciadas que provocam diferentes reações nas participantes, não podendo, assim, classificá-las como negativas ou positivas. Por fim, ressalta-se a necessidade de um trabalho no sentido de promoção de um letramento emocional nos cursos de formação de professores de língua inglesa, para que os futuros profissionais tenham a habilidade para lidar com suas próprias emoções e as de seus estudantes. / The present study aimed at investigating the interrelationship between the emotions experienced by English language teachers in initial education and the process of (re) construction of professional identities. To achieve this goal, I analyzed the phenomena under a historical-cultural lens (JOHNSON, 2009; JOHNSON e GOLOMBEK, 2011; JOHNSON e GOLOMBEK, 2016), based on the studies of Vigotski and the Historical-Cultural Psychology (VIGOTSKI, 2007, 2009, 2010; RATNER, 1995). Emotions, therefore, are understood as higher psychological functions that have a direct influence on the practice of the historically situated subject (VIGOTSKI, 2004; 2010; TOASSA, 2009, 2011). Identities, under this bias, is a concept defined as roles played by the subject in a sociocultural context. They are constructed in the process of social interaction, through the mediation of language and cognitive processes (GOFFMAN, 1985; CIAMPA, 1984, 1998, 2007; De COSTA, 2017; BARKHUIZEN, 2017; LEIBOWITZ, 2017). The research was carried out in the context of an extension project on foreign language teaching, with two English language teachers in the process of initial education. The data were generated and collected during two academic semesters by means of the use of narratives of experience, oral interviews for generation of life history, observation and class recordings, viewing sessions and interview about emotions (CLARÀ, 2015). Data analysis suggests a reciprocal interrelationship between the emotions experienced by the participants and the professional identities built and negotiated in their pedagogical practice. Emotions act as mediation between the professionals and their actions, an essential factor for the construction of identities. It also reveals a range of emotions experienced that provoke different reactions in the participants. Thus, they cannot, therefore, be classified into a negative or positive spectrum. Finally, it shows a need for actions to promote emotional literacy in English-language teacher education courses, so that future professionals have the ability to deal with their own emotions and those of their students. / 88881.135135/2016-01

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:24:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6063.pdf: 11722779 bytes, checksum: bcfaf760050555140e39a837baf0e0de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-30 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This study aims at investigating the effects of using the swalesian genre analysis theory in the process of teacher education. The participants are pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language, who are in the third-year of their undergraduate course in Languages and Literature. The theoretical frameworks of this research combine the theory and pedagogy of genres and the theory of teacher education, the latter in light of the teacher cognition studies. The investigation can be classified as essentially qualitative, with an interpretive and ethnographic perspective. The data analysis process reveals that the use of the genre theory in language teacher education can be considered an adequate instrument for both, a better understanding of the text, ultimately promoting a better understanding of the situated use of the target language by student-teachers, as well as an exercise of methodological choices and implementation of education. These aspects, together, converged on an improvement of teacher knowledge. In this sense, this study contributes to the affirmation of the genre theory in English language teacher education by providing both, subsidy and varied perspectives to the process. / Este estudo objetiva investigar os reflexos da utilização da teoria de gêneros textuais sob a perspectiva swalesiana no processo de formação pré-serviço de professores de inglês como língua estrangeira, mais precisamente entre alunos do terceiro ano de um curso de Letras. Tendo como pilares teóricos a teoria e pedagogia de gêneros e a formação de professores à luz dos estudos em cognição, trata-se de uma investigação essencialmente qualitativa, de perspectiva interpretativista e de base etnográfica. Por meio das análises realizadas, verificamos que a abordagem da teoria de gêneros na formação de professores de línguas se revelou um instrumento tanto para a melhor relação com o texto, em última instância para a melhor compreensão do uso situado da língua-alvo pelos alunos-professores, quanto para o exercício de escolhas metodológicas e de concretização do ensino. Tais aspectos, juntos, convergiram para o aprimoramento do conhecimento docente. Nesse sentido, este trabalho contribui para a afirmação da teoria de gêneros na formação de professores de inglês pelo subsídio e perspectivas que fornece ao processo.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:06:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoNQ_DISSERT.pdf: 3682649 bytes, checksum: 33832ac05cfe929df2ad407d3f5c4739 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-30 / Research in the area of teacher training in English as a Foreign Language (CELANI, 2003, 2004, 2010; PAIVA, 2000, 2003, 2005; VIEIRA-ABRAH?O, 2010) articulates the complexity of beginning teachers classroom contexts aligned with teaching language as a social and professional practice of the teacher in training. To better understand this relationship, the present study is based on a corpus of transcribed interviews and questionnaires applied to 28 undergraduate students majoring in Letters/English emphasis, at a public university located in the interior of the Western Amazon region, soliciting their opinions about the reforms made in the curriculum of this Major. Interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection instruments to trace a profile of the students organized in Group 1, with freshmen and sophomore undergraduates who are following the 2009 curriculum, and Group 2, with junior and senior undergraduates who are following the 2006 curriculum. The objectives are to identify, to characterize and to analyze the types of pronouns, roles and social actors represented in the opinions of these students in relation to their teacher training curriculum. The theoretical support focuses on the challenge of historical and contemporary routes from English teachers initial education programs (MAGALH?ES; LIBERALLI, 2009; PAVAN; SILVA, 2010; ALVAREZ, 2010; VIANA, 2011; PAVAN, 2012). Our theoretical perspective is based on the Systemic Functional Grammar of Halliday (1994), Halliday and Hasan (1989), Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), Eggins (1994; 2004) and Thompson (2004). We focus on the concept of the Interpersonal meaning, specifically regarding the roles articulated in the studies by Delu (1991), Thompson and Thetela (1995), and in the Portuguese language such as Ramos (1997), Silva (2006) and Cabral (2009). Moreover, we ascribe van Leeuwen s (1997; 2003) theory of Representation of Social Actors as a theoretical framework in order to identify the sociological aspect of social actors represented in the students discourse. Within this scenario, the analysis unfolds on three levels: grammatical (pronouns), semantic (roles), and discursive (social actors). For the analysis of interpersonal realizations present in the students opinions, we use the computational program WordSmith Tools (SCOTT, 2010) and its applications Wordlist and Concord to quantify the occurrences of the pronouns I, You and They, which characterize the roles and social actors of the corpus. The results show that the students assigned the following roles to themselves: (i) apprentice to express their initial process of English language learning; (ii) freshman to reveal their choice of Major in Letters/English emphasis; (iii) future teacher to relate their expectations towards a practicing professional. To assign the roles to professors in the major, the students used the metaphor of modality (I think) to indicate the relationship of teacher training, while they are in the role of a student and as a future teacher. From these evidences the representation of the students as social actors emerges in roles such as: (i) active roles; (ii) passive roles and (iii) personalized roles. The social actors represented in the opinions of the students reflect the inclusion of these roles assigned to the actions expressed about their experiences and expectations derived from their teacher training classroom / Pesquisas na ?rea de forma??o de professores de ingl?s como l?ngua estrangeira (CELANI, 2003, 2004, 2010; PAIVA, 2000, 2003, 2005; VIEIRA-ABRAH?O, 2010) dimensionam a complexidade de contextos da sala de aula de forma??o inicial em aliar o ensino da l?ngua com a pr?tica social e profissional do futuro professor. Como forma de fornecer subs?dios para a compreens?o dessa rela??o, a presente pesquisa baseia-se em um corpus composto de entrevistas transcritas de 28 alunos de um Curso de Letras/Ingl?s (CLI) de uma universidade p?blica localizada no interior da Amaz?nia Ocidental e suas opini?es acerca da reformula??o do curr?culo do curso. Os instrumentos de coleta de dados utilizados foram entrevistas e question?rios para tra?ar o perfil dos alunos do CLI concentrados em Grupo 1, com os alunos do 1? e 3? per?odos do curr?culo de 2009, e o Grupo 2, com os alunos do 5? e 7? per?odos do curr?culo de 2006. Os objetivos propostos buscam identificar, caracterizar e analisar os tipos de pronomes, os pap?is e os atores sociais representados nas opini?es dos alunos em rela??o ao curr?culo de sua forma??o inicial. O aporte te?rico enfoca os desafios do percurso hist?rico e contempor?neo dos programas de forma??o inicial de professores de l?nguas (MAGALH?ES; LIBERALLI, 2009; PAVAN; SILVA, 2010; ALVAREZ, 2010; VIANA, 2011; PAVAN, 2012). Para a perspectiva te?rica e anal?tica, apoiamo-nos na Gram?tica Sist?mico-Funcional (GSF) de Halliday (1994), Halliday e Hasan (1989), Halliday e Matthiessen (2004), Eggins (1994; 2004) e Thompson (2004). Focamos no conceito da Interpessoalidade, especificamente acerca dos pap?is abordados por Delu (1991), Thompson e Thetela (1995), e trabalhos em l?ngua portuguesa como os de Ramos (1997), Silva (2006) e Cabral (2009). A Teoria da Representa??o dos Atores Sociais de van Leeuwen (1997; 2003) contempla a base te?rica para identificarmos o car?ter sociol?gico dos atores sociais representados no discurso dos alunos. Com este panorama, o percurso proposto para an?lise percorre tr?s n?veis principais: os pronomes (n?vel gramatical), os pap?is (n?vel sem?ntico) e os atores sociais (n?vel discursivo). Para a an?lise das marcas interpessoais presentes nas opini?es dos alunos, utilizamos o programa computacional WordSmith Tools (SCOTT, 2010), e suas ferramentas Wordlist (Lista de Palavras) e Concord (Concordanciador) para quantificar as ocorr?ncias dos pronomes: Eu, Voc? e Eles, que permitam caracterizar os pap?is e os atores sociais no corpus. Os resultados demonstram que os alunos atribuem a si mesmos os seguintes pap?is: (i) aprendiz para expressar o processo inicial de seu aprendizado com o ingl?s; (ii) ingressante na licenciatura para expor suas escolhas em cursar Letras/Ingl?s; (iii) futuro professor para relacionar suas expectativas com a pr?tica profissional. Para atribuir os pap?is aos professores e o curso, os alunos utilizam a met?fora de modalidade, Eu acho que para marcar as rela??es da forma??o inicial como aluno e futuro professor. Destas evid?ncias emergem os atores sociais representados pelos alunos em: (i) pap?is ativos; (ii) pap?is passivos e (iii) pap?is personalizados. Esses atores sociais representados nas opini?es dos alunos refletem a inclus?o dos pap?is atribu?dos para as a??es expressas acerca das experi?ncias e expectativas oriundas da sala de aula de sua forma??o