Thesis--Faculty of Humanities, University of Jyväskylä, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-249).

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D., Stockholm University, 1997). / Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-319).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 2005. / Supervisor: Chuanren Ke. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-203).

Orientador: Marcelo El Khouri Buzato / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T15:28:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Coser_DeboraSecolim_M.pdf: 1772608 bytes, checksum: 4b688b9568a58756ad8960c57221aa5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação discuto o conceito de ensino- aprendizagem colaborativa online por referência a dois contextos distintos. O primeiro é a plataforma Galanet, mantida por um consórcio de universidades européias, que visa estimular e desenvolver uma cultura de intercompreensão entre falantes de línguas românicas como alternativa à hegemonia do inglês na comunicação entre cidadãos europeus. O segundo é o site Busuu.com, que conecta pessoas ao redor do mundo dispostas a ensinar e aprender línguas entre si, sem a intervenção de tutores/moderadores profissionais. Em ambos os casos, o atrativo principal dos ambientes está na possibilidade de interagir com falantes nativos das línguas-alvo. O corpus analisado foi gerado na forma de registros provenientes proveniente das interlocuções da pesquisadora que participou de eventos colaborativos em ambos os espaços por seis meses. A fundamentação teórica abrange o exame de concepções de mediação oriundas de diferentes tradições teóricas assim como uma revisão histórica do conceito de aprendizagem colaborativa de línguas mediada por computador. A concepção de linguagem empregada é enunciativo-discursiva, fundamentada nos conceitos bakhtinianos de dialogismo, plurilinguismo, intercompreensão e gênero discursivo. O método empregado foi a Análise do Discurso Mediado por Computador proposta por Suzan Herring. Buscou-se, responder às seguintes perguntas de pesquisa: (i) quais as principais diferenças e semelhanças entre Busuu e Galanet em termos de mediações tecnológicas e político-pedagógicas? e (ii) de que modo o gênero Chat Pedagógico Plurilíngue e o gênero Chat Colaborativo em Duplas refletem essas semelhanças e diferenças? Os resultados mostraram que ambas as plataformas avançam em relação às propostas tradicionais da pedagogia de línguas, mas ainda estão aquém das dinâmicas de aprendizagem de línguas de caráter colaborativo e mediado por tecnologias digitais tais como os movimentos de desenvolvimento de softwares livres / Abstract: In this essay I discuss the concept of online collaborative teaching and learning by referring to two distinct contexts. The first one is the Galanet platform, maintained by European universities, which aims to encourage and develop a culture of mutual intelligibility between speakers of Romance languages as an alternative to the hegemony of English in communication amongst European citizens. The second one is the Busuu.com site that connects people around the world who are willing to teach and learn languages amongst themselves, without the intervention of tutors or professional moderators. In both cases, the most attractive characteristic of the environments is the possibility to interact with native speakers of the desired language. The corpus analyzed was generated in the form of records coming from the interactions of the researcher who participated in collaborative events in both platforms for a period of six months. The theoretical bases cover the concepts of mediation coming from different theoretical traditions, as well as a historical review of the concept of computer-mediated collaborative language learning. The conception of language is enunciative-discursive, based on the concepts of Bakhtinian dialogism, multilingualism, mutual understanding and discursive genre. The method employed was the Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis proposed by Suzan Herring. The research questions sought to be answered were: (i) What are the main differences and similarities between Busuu and Galanet in terms of technological and political-pedagogical mediations? And (ii) How does the Plurilingual Pedagogical Chat and Collaborative Chat in Pairs genres reflect these similarities and differences? The results showed that both platforms advances regarding the traditional language learning pedagogies, but are still below the dynamics of language learning and collaborative feature mediated by digital technologies, such as the development of Opens Source software / Mestrado / Linguagem e Educação / Mestra em Linguística Aplicada

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have given rise to many distinct discourses in the field of literacy studies. The present study examined the discursive interplay between two of these discourses, namely the practical discourses of those who see themselves as empowered by ICTs and the theoretical discourses of theory and research literature on the notions of multiliteracies. Drawing on the emergent discourses from the interview data, this study explored the practitioners' underlying beliefs and their assumptions about technology-mediated new multiliteracies as opposed to traditional print-based literacy. As such the study also argued for a sustainable dialogue between the discourses of practice and discourses of theory and research, suggesting that the discursive interplay between these two discourse communities would contribute to the application of the complex theoretical notions to multiliteracy pedagogy. Employing a qualitative approach, the study drew on Bakhtin's (1986) notion of primary/secondary genres to depict the relevance of the notions of discourse in arriving at the underlying assumptions about the nature of multiliteracies and its implications. This study was broadly framed within a critical social research perspective (Fairclough, 2003). The notion of multiliteracies was explored from the standpoint of the New London Group (1996). Grounded Theory procedures (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) were also employed to identify major themes in the data, while general content analysis method was used to interpret the interview data. The main question that guided this investigation was as follows: How do expert practitioners' perceptions of new multiliteracies and their implications map onto their practices with new multiliteracies? The findings of this study pointed to the practitioners' willingness to implement new approaches in their literacy practices. Moreover, these findings highlighted the importance of a sustainable dialogue between the discourses of theory and practice to enhance literacy educators' pedagogical choices. The researcher hopes that the findings of this study contribute to the future teacher education policy and curriculum development in such a way that current pedagogical practices are expanded to include multiple literacies. / Education, Faculty of / Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of / Graduate

Cohesion and coherence are important features for effective writing. Studies in contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics suggest that cohesion and coherence may vary across languages and cultures. This study examined cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the similarities and the differences between Chinese and English, and investigated the role of language transfer and interference in Chinese ESL writings. Four Chinese graduate students each composed two expository essays in English and two in Chinese and their writing sessions were videotaped. Essays were scrutinized for cohesion and coherence features, and along with transcripts, interviews and observations, they were examined for evidence of transfers and interferences. Findings indicate that the Chinese language depends more on lexical ties and similarities of structures whereas English employs more connectors. References in Chinese often take the form of lexical repetition and sometimes zero anaphora while English uses more pronouns and deictics. In addition, more ellipses are utilized in Chinese. Coherence features show that Chinese essays are more implicit and general while English writings emphasize explicitness with thesis statements and topic sentences. Chinese writings are writer-centered, and demand more of the reader to make sense of the text. Interferences and transfers were identified. Students were unable to use a variety of connectors that English offers in their own writings and often connections were missing and sometimes misleading. They occasionally failed to mark sentence boundaries; their essays often lacked a clearly defined thesis; and topic sentences were rarely used. The discussion was general, implicit, and writer-centered. / Ed. D.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-212).