Orientador: João Antonio Telles / Banca: Fernanda Liberalli / Banca: Creobel Franco Maimone / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa é viabilizar a produção de outros modos de pensar a educação de professores de línguas estrangeiras. Buscamos construir contextos não convencionais de pesquisa nos quais os profissionais possam refletir acerca de sua experiência de ensino/aprendizagem de línguas. Para tanto, nos baseamos metodologicamente na Pesquisa Educacional com Base nas Artes (Eisner, 1991)cujo recurso principal é um espetáculo teatral, denominado Parâmetros em Análise. Tal espetáculo foi construído a partir de temas inspirados nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais. Foram apresentados dez espetáculos em diversas instituições das redes de ensino oficial e particulares do Estado de São Paulo. No palco do espetáculo, foram representadas, artisticamente, cenas do dia-a-dia e do fazer pedagógico dos professores de línguas estrangeiras, assim como, os seus conflitos e dilemas profissionais. Após o espetáculo ocorreu uma reflexão crítica compartilhada entre a platéia composta por professores, educadores de professores e alunos de Letras. O espetáculo e a reflexão compõem aquilo que Foucault (Deleuze, 1988) conceitua como sendo um dispositivo. Para o filósofo, dispositivos são máquinas de fazer ver e falar. Eles formam uma espécie de instrumento teórico com o qual contamos para visualizar as práticas sociais que se dão na escola. As reflexões realizadas pelos professores indicam um desencontro entre aquilo que professores e alunos estão atualizando nas suas práticas e, aquilo que propõem certas pesquisas, políticas educacionais e o funcionamento da estrutura institucional da escola. / Abstract: The objective of this paper is to make the production of "other" ways of thinking over education of foreign language teachers possible. We intend to construct non-conventional contexts of research, in which the professionals can think over their language learning/teaching experiences. For that, we are based methodologically on the Educational Research based on Arts (Eisner, 1991) whose chief resource is the dramatic performance, called Patterns in Analysis. Such performance was built from themes inspired in the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais. Ten performances were acted in several public and private institutions of education in the State of São Paulo. On the stage, everyday scenes and the pedagogical work of foreign language teachers were acted artistically, such as, their conflicts and professional dilemmas. After the performance, a critical reflection shared by the audience composed by teachers, teachers' professors and students took place. The performance and the reflection compose what Foucault (Deleuze, 1988) considers as a device. To the philosopher, devices are machines of making see and speak. They constitute a theoretical instrument that we use to analyze the social experiences that happen at schools. The reflections arisen by the teachers indicate a discordance from what teachers and students have been passing through a process of modification in their experiences and, from what some researches, educational policies and the operation of the institutional structure of the school propose. / Mestre

This study investigated the linguistic, affective, and intercultural outcomes of a four-week study abroad program for Korean teachers of English offered through a U.S. southwestern university. In an effort to understand better what the 42 participants experienced during their study abroad, mixed methods including quantitative and qualitative data analysis, were used. To measure the participants‟ linguistic development, pretest and posttest measures of Listening, Reading, Structure, Speaking, and Writing were administered by the study abroad program. Also, participants responded to Self- Assessment questionnaires developed by the National Language Service Corps that asked them to assess the degree to which their reading, speaking, and listening had improved. The participants‟ daily journal entries were collected throughout the program, and some of the participants were interviewed at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end of the program on a volunteer basis. For the quantitative data analysis, the pretest and posttest scores of each measure were statistically compared by using MANOVA with follow-up ANOVA tests. Except for the reading scores, the other four measures showed significant improvement from pretest to posttest. For the Self-Assessment questionnaire, most participants checked only a few items as having improved. Interestingly, a few perceived that they had become less able to do some of the listening and speaking items over the program. These findings can be explained as resulting from overestimation before this program or as a result of increase in self-monitoring processes during the program. Through the constant comparison method (Strauss & Corbin, 1998), four themes emerged from analysis of the qualitative data. First, many participants were motivated to improve their English proficiency and increase authentic contacts with local people, with various sources shaping their motivation. Second, they increased their awareness of cultural and linguistic differences between the United States and Korea. Third, some participants showed a feeling of resistance to the dominant culture represented by native English-speaking instructors of the program. Fourth, at the end of the program, many showed improved intercultural competence. Results provide some theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and policy implications for study abroad researchers, participants, and program instructors. / text

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Chapter 1 introduces the aims and objectives of the study. It is followed by an analysis of the present situation at the Hanoi Foreign Language Teachers College and the problems encountered by teachers and administrators in ensuring the maximum efficiency of the EFL programme. The Report continues by asking a number of pertinent questions about the methodology and techniques used in the teaching of reading. This, in turn, is linked with theoretical considerations which the writer examines at some length taking into account numerous issues about language processing, cognition, expectation and motivation, comprehending, discourse analysis, text cohesion and so on. Attention is then focused on the reader and the environment in which he operates. In addition the reading lesson comes under scrutiny and procedures, as well as material selection and teaching systems are discussed. Finally the writer attempts to make suggestions to his colleagues in the EFL field based on his own experience and convictions.

This study explored the learning experience of Arabic language learners at the college level, focusing on their perception of effective and ineffective Arabic language teachers as well as the influence of their experiences on their motivation. The study also attempted to shed some light on the nature of the teacher-student interaction within the current sociopolitical context. The 29 students who agreed to participate in this study were all Arabic language learners enrolled in the second year or higher of Arabic at a major university in the United States. Data were collected from multiple sources including an open-ended survey and semi-structured interviews that were conducted on a one-on-one basis with the participants. Data were analyzed using coding procedures suggested by Strauss and Corbin (1998) from a grounded theory qualitative approach. Results indicated that participants perceived their effective Arabic language teachers as adaptable teachers. These adaptable teachers influence learners' learning outcomes by balancing their high expectations of their students with an awareness of language learning needs. Moreover, participants' perceptions of their best Arabic learning experiences were always associated with adaptable teachers, whose positive interaction style radiated throughout in their teaching. The data indicated that participants were intrinsically motivated in four different ways: (1) intrinsic motivation for the linguistic aspects of Arabic, (2) intrinsic motivation for knowledge, (3) intrinsic motivation for optimal experience, and (4) intrinsic motivation for accomplishment. Moreover, motivation constructs such as expectancy-value, self-efficacy, and flow were related to the students' experiences. According to many students, the more years they spent in learning Arabic, the more they had become obsessed with it. Most participants in this study credited both native and non-native speakers as effective language teachers.. Participants credited their native teachers for their linguistic knowledge and their in-depth understanding of the Arabic culture and described them as resourceful. At the same time, they credited non-native teachers for their pedagogical knowledge, organizational skills, and knowledge of learners' characteristics, and described them as role models. Suggestions for future research and implications for research and practice are discussed. / Not available / text

Esta tese foi pensada como instrumento de estudo da prática do professor de línguas estrangeiras em sala de aula no contexto educacional sergipano. Embora o enfoque tenha sido dado ao aspecto prático da profissão, a teoria não poderia ser negligenciada como parte integrante e imprescindível do fazer docente. Para a realização da pesquisa empírica junto aos três professores de línguas: espanhol, francês e inglês, foi adotada a metodologia da pesquisa-ação crítico colaborativa. Os resultados obtidos sinalizaram a emergência de novas atitudes por parte dos professores e daqueles que fazem a educação como um todo, no sentido de alcançarem uma prática docente mais crítica e emancipatória, fazendo emergir daí o professor pesquisador de sua própria prática, inaugurando o paradigma do professor reflexivo. / This thesis was conceived as an instrument for the study of the practice of in-service foreign language teachers in Sergipe state. Although considerable emphasis was placed on practice, theory was not neglected, since it is a constitutive and indispensable part of the teaching practice. For this empirical research critical collaborative action research was conducted with three foreign language teachers of Spanish, English and French. The results indicated the emergence of new attitudes by these teachers and by other people involved in education as far as the achievement of a more critical and emancipatory teaching practice is concerned, thus bringing forth a teacher who researches his/her own practice and inaugurating the paradigm of the reflective teacher.

This work aimed at investigating the relations between teaching practice and Language-communicative competence of Spanish Foreign Language teachers from the public school, through the inference of their beliefs. Therefore, we identified the beliefs about linguistic and communicative competence of teachers and, as a result, these beliefs were related to their performance reported by the participants themselves in the classroom. The participants of this study were two Spanish teachers, working in public schools in Santa Maria city, who performed the initial training in Letters-Spanish graduation at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The methodology used was a qualitative study of case, based on metacognitive approach beliefs research (BARCELOS, 2001). We applied a questionnaire to answer the main purpose. Secondly, a semi-structured interview was made. The results showed that these teachers believe Linguistic competence communicative is characterized by complementarity of linguistic and communicative component. This division into two components still carries a structuralist notion that considers the linguistic part precedes and prevails on the communications components and also that this is a belief that may have been caused by the influence of the nomenclature linguistic and communicative competence, by Almeida Filho (1993), adopted in this study. In relation to teaching practice reported by the teachers, it was found that the beliefs presented by the participants directly influence on performance. Thus, we concluded that the insufficient linguistic and communicative competence of the teacher leads to severe limitations in educational performance in relation to the oral performance. / Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar relações entre prática docente e competência linguístico-comunicativa de professores de Espanhol Língua Estrangeira da escola pública, por meio da inferência de suas crenças. Para tanto, identificaram-se as crenças sobre a própria competência linguístico-comunicativa dos professores e, na sequência, essas crenças foram relacionadas com a atuação relatada pelos próprios participantes em sala de aula. Os sujeitos deste trabalho foram duas professoras de língua espanhola, atuantes em escolas públicas da cidade de Santa Maria, que realizaram a formação inicial no Curso de Letras-Espanhol da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. A metodologia utilizada foi um estudo qualitativo de caso, baseada na abordagem metacognitiva de investigação de crenças (BARCELOS, 2001). Para responder ao objetivo principal, aplicou-se um questionário. Num segundo momento, realizou-se uma entrevista semi-estruturada. Os resultados mostraram que os professores acreditam que a competência linguístico-comunicativa caracteriza-se pela complementaridade do componente linguístico e do comunicativo. Essa divisão em dois componentes ainda carrega uma noção estruturalista que considera que a parte linguística antecede e tem primazia sobre os componentes comunicativos e, ainda, que essa é uma crença que pode ter sido originada pela influência da nomenclatura competência linguístico-comunicativa, de Almeida Filho (1993), adotada neste trabalho. Com relação à prática docente relatada pelas professoras, verificou-se que as crenças apresentadas pelas participantes influenciam diretamente na sua atuação. Nesse sentido, concluiu-se que a insuficiência na competência linguístico-comunicativa do professor leva a severas limitações na atuação docente no que se refere ao desempenho oral.

Esta tese foi pensada como instrumento de estudo da prática do professor de línguas estrangeiras em sala de aula no contexto educacional sergipano. Embora o enfoque tenha sido dado ao aspecto prático da profissão, a teoria não poderia ser negligenciada como parte integrante e imprescindível do fazer docente. Para a realização da pesquisa empírica junto aos três professores de línguas: espanhol, francês e inglês, foi adotada a metodologia da pesquisa-ação crítico colaborativa. Os resultados obtidos sinalizaram a emergência de novas atitudes por parte dos professores e daqueles que fazem a educação como um todo, no sentido de alcançarem uma prática docente mais crítica e emancipatória, fazendo emergir daí o professor pesquisador de sua própria prática, inaugurando o paradigma do professor reflexivo. / This thesis was conceived as an instrument for the study of the practice of in-service foreign language teachers in Sergipe state. Although considerable emphasis was placed on practice, theory was not neglected, since it is a constitutive and indispensable part of the teaching practice. For this empirical research critical collaborative action research was conducted with three foreign language teachers of Spanish, English and French. The results indicated the emergence of new attitudes by these teachers and by other people involved in education as far as the achievement of a more critical and emancipatory teaching practice is concerned, thus bringing forth a teacher who researches his/her own practice and inaugurating the paradigm of the reflective teacher.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação -Versão para defesa.pdf: 1036219 bytes, checksum: 00e35af094114f0fa180f719462dd199 (MD5) / O presente trabalho investiga as crenças de professores quanto à implementação do Currículo Mínimo (CM) de Língua Estrangeira (LE), analisando se e como aquelas interferem em sua prática docente. Objetivando identificar as crenças dos professores informantes em relação ao CM e analisá-las, os aportes teóricos utilizados foram Abrahão (2006), Barcelos (2007) e Silva (2010). A pesquisa também investiga as relações entre poder e discurso e, assim, utiliza como referencial teórico os escritos de Foucault (2004) e da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD). E, como o CM foi elaborado com base na teoria dos gêneros discursivos, tornou-se necessária uma breve apresentação dos estudos de Marcuschi, (2003) e Schneuwly e Dolz (2004). Os documentos que orientam (ou orientaram até recentemente) o currículo escolar brasileiro – a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação (BRASIL, LDB, 1996), os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, PCN, 1998, 1999) e as Orientações Curriculares do Ensino Médio (BRASIL, OCEM, 2006) – ampararam a pesquisa. O Currículo Mínimo da Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (RIO DE JANEIRO, CM, 2011, 2012) também foi apresentado e discutido, uma vez que uma das finalidades dessa dissertação é analisar como os professores o implementam em sala de aula. Para a análise dos dados foram criadas categorias de forma a inferir as crenças dos professores informantes no que se refere à implementação do CM e à sua obrigatoriedade, sua visão quanto aos gêneros discursivos propostos no documento e o contexto do aluno e, por último, que imagem os professores têm dos alunos em relação ao processo de ensino-aprendizagem da LE. Foi possível concluir que as crenças dos professores informantes interferem diretamente no planejamento de suas aulas e na forma como estas são desenvolvidas, bem como em sua percepção acerca do CM. Apesar de acreditarem que suas ações se modificaram a partir de suas experiências e vivências, os docentes seguem utilizando abordagens e métodos tradicionais como a tradução de palavras e o ensino dedutivo de regras gramaticais. No entanto, independente da forma como vislumbram suas aulas, quer implementando o CM quer não, é consenso entre os professores informantes que se faz necessária a reflexão e a reconstrução de sua prática, buscando ações que visem a formação de alunos críticos e atuantes no mundo social. A interação com o outro e com o contexto é fundamental não só à formação do indivíduo dentro dos muros da escola, mas, principalmente, à sua formação como cidadão reflexivo e consciente / This dissertation investigates teachers’ beliefs about the implementation of the Currículo Mínimo (CM) of Foreign Languages (FL), analyzing if and how their beliefs interfere in their teaching practices. The theoretical support for the investigation of beliefs came mainly from Abrahão (2006), Barcelos (2007) and Silva (2010). The research also investigates the relations between power and discourse, using as reference studies by Foucault (2004) as well as by several scholars identified with the theories and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). And, since the CM was based upon the theories of discursive genres, this dissertation also includes a brief presentation of the studies by Marcuschi (2003) and Schneuwly & Dolz (2004). Brazilian official documents concerning curricular policies, such as the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação (BRASIL, LDB, 1996), the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (BRASIL, PCN, 1998, 1999) and the Orientações Curriculares do Ensino Médio (BRASIL, OCEM, 2006), were take into consideration as well. Obviously, the Currículo Mínimo of the Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (RIO DE JANEIRO, CM, 2011, 2012) is presented and discussed, since the analysis of how it is implemented is one of the goals of this research. For the data analysis, we created a few categories which helped infer the beliefs of the informants as to the implementation of the CM, its mandatory character, the discursive genres established as syllabus by the document, the social context of the students, and, finally, the images that teachers create of their pupils as learners of the FL. We concluded that teachers’ beliefs interfered directly in lesson planning and in the way the plans were developed in the classroom, as well as in their perception of the CM. In spite of believing that their teaching practices were modified due to their experiences, the informants keep on adopting traditional approaches, methods and techniques, such as word translation and deductive teaching of grammar rules. On the other hand, disregarding of how they conceive their lessons, the informants agree that both reflection upon and rebuilding of their practices is necessary, in order to contribute to the education of critical and active students. The interaction with both other people and the context is essential not only to the education of the student within the school, but also for his or her education as a conscious, critical citizen

In the past 30 years there has been a steady and growing appreciation in the literature of the importance and value of teachers' practical wisdom (TPW) - or phronesis as it is also known - to further an understanding of classroom practice and of the need to find ways to help teachers generate and share their perspectives with others. Nevertheless, the potential of this kind of knowledge (understood by Aristotle to be both practical and moral in its orientation) to contribute valuable insights to educational debates has still to be realised. Rather, educational decisions about policy and practice in many contexts (whether at a national or institutional level) are still largely driven by theoretical and technical knowledge perspectives and teacher practical wisdom perspectives are still often under-valued and remain under-represented in educational literature. One of the main reasons for this put forward in this thesis is the tendency in much of the literature to see this form of knowledge as classroom bound rather than to realise the ways in which it can inform broader pedagogical discussions. Bearing all of the above in mind, the aim of the study reported in this thesis into the TPW of 14 experienced expatriate English as a foreign language teachers (EEEFLTs) working in English language centres (ELCs) across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is threefold. Its first aim is to provide a platform for the EEEFLTs to demonstrate the contribution their TPW can potentially make in addressing syllabus related issues in the KSA ELCs they have worked and, in doing so, show how the use of TPW is not confined to the classroom. Its second aim is to increase the visibility of the participants' TPW and thus raise awareness of the importance of research into TPW and to provide a model for how this can be conducted. The study's final aim is to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of TPW. Located in the interpretive paradigm, this study uses a TPW-friendly methodology to investigate TPW: interpretive phronetic educational research (IPER), which approaches and conducts educational research through a moral and practical problem-driven lens. This understanding drives the study's methodology and all stages of its data collection and analysis and the methods used in both. The goal of such methods is an epistemological one to generate TPW whilst empowering it also by highlighting its validity and how it is easily articulated - and thus captured - and not confined to the classroom. To assist with its articulation and capture, the study employs a process defined as Problematisation: a four-stage process consisting of reflection, problematisation, deliberation and articulation which drives and shapes the semi-structured interviews the study employs and the secondary research questions that inform the primary research question. The study concludes that the EEEFLTs use their TPW as a lens (that has 12 qualities) through which to view KSA ELC syllabi and, in doing so, identify many problems with the syllabi and subsequent consequences and suggest solutions to address both. These problems, consequences and solutions have been organised under six prominent categories that represent six main problem areas to emerge from the data that suggest the syllabi are teacher, textbook and test-centred, top-down, teacher-proof and time-driven. These categories represent six problem areas that in turn reflect the problematic, negative and disempowering context from which the data informing such categories and themes have been drawn. In this study, TPW is considered disempowered knowledge as a result of the disempowering context within which it has been acquired and is used. Previous TPW studies have been conducted in more positive settings and have perhaps for this reason not focused on TPW's disempowerment. In contrast, this study takes on a much more political role as it explores TPW's disempowerment in the KSA ELC context as well as in the broader context of academia and the literature. TPW's lack of visibility in TESOL and education has several implications because unless TPW achieves greater visibility, it may fade into extinction and its potential may never be realised. This study has been conducted in an attempt to prevent this happening.