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The assessment of pragmatic skills in a foreign or second language (L2) is usually investigated with regard to language learners, but rarely with regard to non-native language instructors, who are simultaneously teachers and (advanced) learners of the L2. With regard to English as the target language, this is a true research gap, as nonnative English-speaking teachers (non-NESTs) constitute the majority of English teachers world-wide (Kamhi-Stein 2016). Addressing this research gap, this paper presents a modified replication of Bardovi-Harlig and Dörnyei’s (1998) renowned study on grammatical vs. pragmatic awareness, carried out with non-NEST candidates. While the original study asked the participants for a global indication of (in)appropriateness/ (in)correctness and to rate its severity, the participants in the present study were asked to identify the nature of the violation and to suggest a repair. Inspired by Pfingsthorn and Flöck (2017), the data was analyzed by means of Signal Detection Theory with regard to Hits, Misses, False Alarms and Correct Rejections to gain more detailed insights into the participants’ metalinguistic perceptions. In addition, the study investigated the rate of successful repairs, showing that correct problem identification cannot necessarily be equated with adequate repair abilities. Implications for research, language teaching and language teacher education are derived.

The research described here was inspired by a national review which concluded that too many children come into our primary schools with unmet speech and language needs (Bercow, 2008). Teachers are in a position to identify language difficulties but many have expressed uncertainty regarding their role in this process. I believed that the LAMP (Linguistic Assessment for Mapped Provision) screen for language and communication which I had developed would help teachers to identify language concerns and would also increase their professional confidence in this complex area. I had developed the LAMP screening instrument and piloted it over a 2 year period prior to this study. It is employed here as a universal screen that is used in a whole school approach in order to enable teachers to identify language need. The use of the LAMP as a universal screen applied to all the children in a school lessened the likelihood of preconceived notions impacting upon teacher’s perceptions of need in the classroom. The LAMP data allowed schools to track the progress of individual children within a class and whole school context. Teachers need to be aware of any pre-conceptions they may have in relation to the performance of children from different socio economic circumstances. The hypothesis that poverty continues to provide the weightiest detrimental effects upon children’s language development was examined and within the parameters of this study was found to be contestable. Study design: A systematic survey was conducted over 4 Primary schools using the LAMP. Rich picture data was accessed from teacher questionnaires and focus groups involving participants from the schools in the study. The repeated measures design provided information on what teachers had learned in the period of reflection between the screenings. The use of a mixed methods repeated measures design helped me to understand what was difficult for teachers and what the teachers felt would help them. The 4 schools in the study were chosen to reflect varied social contexts in order to explore any impacts of SES on the results. Analysis of data: In a repeated measures design, a LAMP screen was completed for every child across the 4 schools by their teachers in February and then June in one school year. Results of screening were analysed and compared on a range of variables using SPSS. Questionnaires were used to collect teacher perceptions before and after using the LAMP screen. Focus groups were held in the schools at the end of the study to add more information on how helpful teachers felt the process had been in raising their awareness, confidence, and skills in the identification of SLCN. Findings: The main trend observed was a decrease in levels of teacher concern related to children’s speech and language needs from the first to second screening survey. Differences were found at a statistically significant level on a range of variables. The expected differences between high and low socio-economic status (SES) schools were not found. Teachers reported increases in their awareness, confidence, and skill in identifying children’s speech language and communication concerns by the end of the study. Some changes to classroom practice were reported. Conclusions: I propose that use of the LAMP screen increased teacher awareness of the nature of language difficulty and that this heightened awareness was a key variable in the observed changes to language concern scores. The LAMP screening process was seen by schools’ staff to have had a positive effect on teacher’s skills and to be relatively easily assimilated into the school system. However some participants identified a number of challenges relating to time constraints and maintaining the use of LAMP as high profile in the context of competing time demands in their schools. It is suggested that EP services would be in a position to support schools to implement and embed the LAMP screening model as part of their Service provision. It is also proposed that economic deprivation or disadvantage did not appear to be the only important factor to consider when making funding decisions intended to support children’s linguistic competency in schools.

Esta pesquisa, realizada no período 2012-2016, investigou as possíveis razões para o crescente desinteresse pela profissão docente, especificamente no que se refere ao ensino de língua inglesa (LI) na educação básica brasileira, sobretudo aquela pública; e o fez a partir do posicionamento de licenciandos em LI de uma universidade pública acerca do que para eles significava ser professor. O estudo se valeu de contribuições de teorias pósmodernas, baseando-se, principalmente, em conceitos pós-estruturalistas e decoloniais relacionados às concepções de língua, discurso, epistemologia e identidade, no intuito de melhor compreender as influências modernas sobre a construção histórica da docência e da identidade docente. Identificar os princípios que fundamentam o ensino de LI e a formação docente nessa área; investigar os discursos que perpassam a construção da identidade docente e em que se fundamentam; e compreender em que medida tais princípios e discursos impactam o (des)interesse pela profissão eram alguns dos principais objetivos propostos. Permeados pela análise dos dados gerados, os capítulos que compõem esta pesquisa se organizam da seguinte forma: a introdução localiza este estudo no cenário educacional brasileiro, apresenta seus objetivos gerais e específicos, o seu contexto de realização, as perguntas de pesquisa, a metodologia utilizada e o perfil dos participantes e da pesquisadora; o Capítulo 01 apresenta um panorama histórico da educação brasileira desde a implantação do sistema educacional jesuíta, em 1549, até a promulgação da LDB de 1996, procurando focar no ensino e na formação de professores de LI; o Capítulo 02 trata do papel do discurso na construção da realidade e na invenção da tradição, da ideia de desenvolvimento e civilização que permearam a colonização de terras e povos e resultaram na invenção da História ocidental; o Capítulo 03 dedica-se à invenção das línguas inclusive a LI e o inglês como língua internacional (ILI) e à construção histórica da identidade com base nas ideias de fixidez, permanência e normalidade, negando seu caráter fluido e nômade; as considerações finais apresentam acontecimentos políticos atuais e discorrem sobre as implicações do caráter circular da História sobre a construção da identidade docente e do estatuto negativo da profissão, além de reafirmar a necessidade de uma formação docente pautada no letramento crítico, como forma de promover mudança. / This research developed between the year 2012 and the year 2016 investigated the increasing lack of interest in the teaching profession, including English language teaching (ELT), in Brazilian (public) basic education. This study was developed mainly on the basis of post-modern theories, related mainly to post-structuralist and decolonial concepts concerning language, discourse, epistemology and identity, used in order to better understand the influences of Modernity on the historical construction of the teacher identity and the teaching profession status. Some of the main objectives of this research were to identify the principles that ground ELT and EL teacher education in Brazil; examine the discourses that influence the construction of teacher identity and the basis of such discourses; and understanding to what extent such principles and discourses affect the (dis)interest in the teaching profession. The introduction situates this study in the Brazilian educational setting, and it presents the general and specific objectives that guided the development of this research, as well as the research questions, methodology and participants. Chapter 01 presents a historical overview of Brazilian education, starting from the Jesuit educational system implemented in 1549 and ending after the promulgation of the Brazilian National Law on Education (LDB) in 1996. Chapter 02 focuses on the role of discourse in the construction of reality, in the invention of tradition, and in the creation of the ideas of development and progress, which explained the need for civilization. This justified the colonization of lands and peoples and served as the basis for the invention of Western History. Chapter 03 refers to the invention of languages including English language, and English as an international language (EIL) and to the historical construction of identity based on the ideas of fixity and normality, denying its fluid and nomadic nature. The concluding chapter elicits current political events, addresses the implications of the circular nature of History on the construction of teacher identity and the negative status of the teaching profession, and also reiterates the need for a critical literacy-guided English language teacher education as a way of promoting changes.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monica Aparecida Matos.pdf: 1566594 bytes, checksum: 4a85186dfe7ef7084a92e95f405022ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper analyzes the goals, the menus and the curriculum of Pedagogical Political Project (PPP 2009-2013) Letters Course - Portuguese and English and its Literatures from the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul -UEMS in the light of the principles that guides the educational project, since it is coupled to a teacher training process of Degree. The theoretical assumptions used for the analyzes are guided in Analysis of speech and permeates through Maingueneau s concepts (2001/2013, 2008, 2010). For that, the corpus of research is delimited in the course objectives, in the menu, as well objectives and the program of courses offered (curriculum) relevant for English Language Teacher s formation. So all routing occurs in order to answer the question that guides this research: "Who is the English Language teacher of State University of Mato Grosso do Sul?". In order to achieve that purpose, it was developed a qualitative descriptive methodological approach as well as a discursive analysis / O presente trabalho busca analisar os objetivos, as ementas e a matriz curricular do Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP 2009-2013) do Curso de Letras Licenciatura Português//Inglês e suas respectivas Literaturas da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul -UEMS, à luz dos princípios que norteiam o projeto pedagógico, uma vez que está atrelado a um processo de formação docente de um curso de Licenciatura. Os pressupostos teóricos utilizados para as análises se pautam na Análise do Discurso e permeiam através dos conceitos de Maingueneau (2001/2013, 2008, 2010). Com este intuito, o corpus da pesquisa delimita-se nos objetivos do curso, nas ementas, bem como seus objetivos e o programa das disciplinas oferecidas (matriz curricular) relevantes para a formação do professor de Língua Inglesa. Assim, todo encaminhamento se dá no sentido de responder à questão que norteia essa pesquisa: Quem é o professor de Língua Inglesa da UEMS Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul? . Com efeito, para dar conta de atingir o objetivo proposto, desenvolveu-se uma abordagem metodológica qualitativo-descritiva bem como uma análise enunciativa-discursiva

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio Ribeiro Silva.pdf: 5799295 bytes, checksum: cda94e4e607c40ac21fda6048342956f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-06 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The research made in this work have the general objective to analyse the genre opinion article under the social-rethorique perpective of text genre. Between the specific objectives, three of them to become detached. The first is to analysis the situation context of production and reception of opinion article. The second is to analysis the linguistic elements that implicate in the argumentative procedures of the text that performs the genre here in question. The third specific objective, associate with the second, is to analysis the argumentative pluralism present in the opinion articles that compose the seleccioned corpus. With this purpose, the analysis is divided in five stages, in which are distributed the social-discursive and the structure-linguistic elements that determine the argumentation. In this manner, twenty articles published by Folha de S. Paulo and Diário do Grande ABC pass for the analysis process. Writer and reader involved with in the interation process of opinion article were interviwed; in order to obtained informations about the interation situation of the article. The main justification of this work is offer subsidies to a complete undertanding of this genre, concerning the linguistic, discursive, social and argumentative aspects. As results of this analysis, to become destached the elucidations obtained about the production and reception context here in question, the interaction betweem the productor of the genre and the reader, farther determined historic aspects in the discursive comunity where circulate the opinioon article. About the linguistc-stuctural elements boarded for the argumentatios study present in this genres. to become destached the degree of argumentative pluralism that were possible detect in the two genre collection of the corpus / A pesquisa levada a efeito neste trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar o gênero artigo de opinião sob a perspectiva dos estudos sócio-retóricos de gêneros textuais. Dentre os objetivos específicos, estão: analisar o contexto situacional de produção e recepção do artigo de opinião; analisar os elementos lingüísticos utilizados nos procedimentos argumentativos que realizam o gênero em questão e, estreitamente relacionado com o objetivo anterior, analisar o pluralismo argumentativo presente nos artigos de opinião que compõem o corpus selecionado. A análise foi dividida em cinco etapas, nas quais se distribuíram os elementos sócio-discursivos e os lingüísticosestruturais que determinam a argumentatividade. Desse modo, vinte artigos publicados pela Folha de S. Paulo e pelo Diário de Grande ABC, igualmente distribuídos, passaram por esse processo de análise. Foram entrevistados produtores e interlocutores envolvidos no processo de interação do artigo. Assim, obtiveram-se informações no que diz respeito à situação de interação desencadeada pelo artigo de opinião. Colocar subsídios à disposição de futuros estudos na área que, obtidos com a visão sócio-retórica, contribuam para o entendimento do gênero artigo de opinião no que tange a esses elementos justifica este trabalho. Como resultados da análise, destacam-se os esclarecimentos obtidos sobre o contexto de produção e recepção do gênero em questão, a interação entre o articulista e seu interlocutor, além dos aspectos históricos determinantes na formação da comunidade discursiva por onde circula o artigo de opinião. Quanto ao estudo dos elementos lingüísticos-estruturais que foram abordados, tendo em vista o estudo da argumentação presente nesses gêneros, ressalta-se o grau de pluralismo argumentativo que foi possível detectar nos dois conjuntos de exemplares do gênero componentes da amostra utilizada

Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa-ação colaborativa desenvolvida em uma instituição de ensino superior a qual buscou ressignificar a prática pedagógica de disciplinas do currículo universitário de professores de língua inglesa de forma a contemplar as demandas postas pelas sociedades contemporâneas. Para tanto, utilizou-se das contribuições de teorias pós-modernas, com ênfase para preceitos do pós-estruturalismo, articulando-as com estudos mais específicos sobre linguagem, texto e significação ao considerar também as discussões dos multiletramentos. Após uma breve fase de observação, a pesquisa aos poucos elegeu determinados aspectos deste aporte teórico no caso, o entendimento de letramento crítico como postura filosófica pautado numa crítica problematizadora o que culminou no nascimento da ideia de atitude curricular nas brechas do curso de formação de professores de línguas, sinalizando, com isso, a necessidade de mudança ou agência diante da prática curricular. Sob essa orientação, foram planejados diversos ciclos de ação ao longo da pesquisa, os quais tentaram ressignificar aquela ação pedagógica de maneira que o ensino da língua inglesa contemplasse um propósito educacional crítico. A introdução deste trabalho apresenta as justificativas da investigação, os objetivos, as escolhas metodológicas, o contexto investigado e breves observações sobre a fundamentação teórica. A tese organiza-se em três capítulos. No primeiro, analiso algumas concepções e práticas preliminares do contexto de pesquisa sob a ótica de questões atuais, voltadas para alguns pressupostos da pós-modernidade e os novos papeis do inglês nos atuais processos globais. No segundo capítulo, delimito o lócus de enunciação ao tratar das diversas linhas de pesquisa que perpassam os letramentos, priorizando notadamente a noção de letramento crítico e culminando na ideia de atitude curricular, conceito-chave desta proposta. Por fim, o terceiro capítulo apresenta a práxis dessa atitude nas brechas do currículo universitário, momento em que também compartilho alguns acertos e desacertos. / This collaborative action-research developed at a Higher Education institution aimed at ressignifying the pedagogical practices within the English teacher education programs so that they would better respond to the social demands in contemporary societies. In order to do so, post-modern theories were taken as an important framework with emphasis on post-structuralist concepts, which were then related to more specific studies on language, text and meaning as brought by multiliteracies studies. After a brief observation period, I soon opted for certain elements of the theoretical framework that is to say the notion of critical literacy as philosophical orientation based on critique which culminated in the core idea of curricular attitude in those gaps encountered in language teacher education programs. The term curricular attitude has been coined in this work in order to signal the necessary teacher agency towards curriculum practices. Under such notion, several action cycles were planned aimed at ressignifying pedagogical actions in a way that the teaching of English language would also comprise critical educational purposes. The introduction of this work presents its justification, objectives, methodological issues, the investigated context as well as brief remarks on its theoretical framework. The thesis is organized into three chapters. The first chapter analyses preliminary concepts and practices in the light of important contemporary questions, such as post-modern assumptions and the new roles of English in globalizing processes. The second chapter elicits the different approaches to understanding literacies, emphasizing critical literacy and its relation to the proposed core concept of curricular attitude. The last chapter then presents the praxis of such curricular attitude in the gaps we encounter in the investigated language teacher curriculum, besides critically reflecting on the successes and failures throughout the process.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2015-06-24T15:21:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TaianeMalabarba.pdf: 1272565 bytes, checksum: e1f0a3e1eb14f4d93a966849bcdc9db3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-24T15:21:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TaianeMalabarba.pdf: 1272565 bytes, checksum: e1f0a3e1eb14f4d93a966849bcdc9db3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Tendo por base um curso livre de línguas estrangeiras que opera sob o sistema de franquias, este estudo tem o objetivo de caracterizar o trabalho prescrito aos professores dessa instituição, principalmente no que se refere ao chamado “treinamento”. Os alicerces teóricos para a realização desta pesquisa encontram-se, fundamentalmente, nos estudos desenvolvidos dentro do quadro do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (ISD), postulado por Bronckart (1999, 2006, 2008, 2009) e colegas. Eleger o ISD como base teórico-metodológica se deu pela vontade de abordar o trabalho prescrito aos professores a partir do viés do ensino enquanto trabalho, ou seja, pela necessidade de ir além das pesquisas sobre a sala de aula desenvolvidas no campo da didática das línguas. É no quadro do ISD também que encontramos a coerência metodológica para o tratamento dos dados. Os dados gerados também fizeram emergir a necessidade de lançarmos nosso olhar para os aportes vindos da área de Ensino e Aprendizagem de Língua Estrangeira, buscando compreender o métier pesquisado. A geração dos dados foi realizada dentro do contexto da rede de escolas do curso livre, do qual foram identificadas as fontes prescritivas. Identificado o chamado treinamento como a principal delas, buscamos conhecê-lo através de entrevista com o diretor pedagógico, responsável por “treinar” os professores. A análise dos dados foi realizada com base nos resultados obtidos por Bronckart e amplamente discutidos e ampliados por integrantes do grupo do ISD (BRONCKART, 2008; BRONCKART e MACHADO, 2004; ABREU-TARDELLI, 2006; GUIMARÃES, 2007). Elementos linguísticos emergentes dos dados apoiaram nossa análise, que, além de conhecer o treinamento, procurou perceber de que forma essas prescrições são veiculadas e o papel atribuído aos professores no contexto investigado. Os resultados reiteram a complexidade do trabalho docente. Revelam ainda a posição do diretor pedagógico em relação às prescrições formuladas por ele mesmo e permitem verificar como ele representa o agir docente. Tais elementos deixam pistas das implicações dessa tessitura prescritiva no trabalho real dos docentes do curso em questão. / Based on a free course of foreign languages which is part of a franchising system, this study aims at characterizing the work which is assigned to the teachers of this course, mainly concerned to the “teacher training”. The theoretical bases for this investigation are found, principally, in the studies developed in the framework of the Socio-discursive Interactionism (ISD) as presented by Bronckart (1999, 2006, 2008). The choice of the Socio-discursive Interactionism as the theoretical-methodological framework was made due to the wish of studying the work which is assigned to the teachers taking into account that teaching is also a job. By this we mean the necessity of going beyond the researches about teaching which are developed in the area of language didactics. It is in the ISD framework also that we find the coherence to deal with the data. From this data, however, the necessity of looking at another framework emerged. These are the studies accomplished in the field of teaching and learning a foreign language, which we sought in order to understand the métier. The data was conceived within the context of free course of foreign languages, in which the origins of the assigned work were found. Once the “teacher training” was identified as the principal of them, we sought to understand it through the interview with the pedagogic director, responsible for “training” the teachers. The analysis of the data was done based on the results obtained by Bronckart and widely discussed and expanded by members of ISD group (BRONCKART, 2008; BRONCKART e MACHADO, 2004; ABREU-TARDELLI, 2006; GUIMARÃES, 2007). Linguistic elements found in the data supported our analysis, which, beyond characterizing the teacher training, tried to realize the way this assigned work is conveyed and the role given to the teachers in the context investigated. The results reaffirm the complexity of the educational work. They also reveal the position of the pedagogic director concerning the work which he himself assigns to the teachers and turn visible the way the director represents the teaching acting. Such elements indicate the implications of this assigned texture in the real work of the teachers of the course investigated.

Esta pesquisa, realizada no período 2012-2016, investigou as possíveis razões para o crescente desinteresse pela profissão docente, especificamente no que se refere ao ensino de língua inglesa (LI) na educação básica brasileira, sobretudo aquela pública; e o fez a partir do posicionamento de licenciandos em LI de uma universidade pública acerca do que para eles significava ser professor. O estudo se valeu de contribuições de teorias pósmodernas, baseando-se, principalmente, em conceitos pós-estruturalistas e decoloniais relacionados às concepções de língua, discurso, epistemologia e identidade, no intuito de melhor compreender as influências modernas sobre a construção histórica da docência e da identidade docente. Identificar os princípios que fundamentam o ensino de LI e a formação docente nessa área; investigar os discursos que perpassam a construção da identidade docente e em que se fundamentam; e compreender em que medida tais princípios e discursos impactam o (des)interesse pela profissão eram alguns dos principais objetivos propostos. Permeados pela análise dos dados gerados, os capítulos que compõem esta pesquisa se organizam da seguinte forma: a introdução localiza este estudo no cenário educacional brasileiro, apresenta seus objetivos gerais e específicos, o seu contexto de realização, as perguntas de pesquisa, a metodologia utilizada e o perfil dos participantes e da pesquisadora; o Capítulo 01 apresenta um panorama histórico da educação brasileira desde a implantação do sistema educacional jesuíta, em 1549, até a promulgação da LDB de 1996, procurando focar no ensino e na formação de professores de LI; o Capítulo 02 trata do papel do discurso na construção da realidade e na invenção da tradição, da ideia de desenvolvimento e civilização que permearam a colonização de terras e povos e resultaram na invenção da História ocidental; o Capítulo 03 dedica-se à invenção das línguas inclusive a LI e o inglês como língua internacional (ILI) e à construção histórica da identidade com base nas ideias de fixidez, permanência e normalidade, negando seu caráter fluido e nômade; as considerações finais apresentam acontecimentos políticos atuais e discorrem sobre as implicações do caráter circular da História sobre a construção da identidade docente e do estatuto negativo da profissão, além de reafirmar a necessidade de uma formação docente pautada no letramento crítico, como forma de promover mudança. / This research developed between the year 2012 and the year 2016 investigated the increasing lack of interest in the teaching profession, including English language teaching (ELT), in Brazilian (public) basic education. This study was developed mainly on the basis of post-modern theories, related mainly to post-structuralist and decolonial concepts concerning language, discourse, epistemology and identity, used in order to better understand the influences of Modernity on the historical construction of the teacher identity and the teaching profession status. Some of the main objectives of this research were to identify the principles that ground ELT and EL teacher education in Brazil; examine the discourses that influence the construction of teacher identity and the basis of such discourses; and understanding to what extent such principles and discourses affect the (dis)interest in the teaching profession. The introduction situates this study in the Brazilian educational setting, and it presents the general and specific objectives that guided the development of this research, as well as the research questions, methodology and participants. Chapter 01 presents a historical overview of Brazilian education, starting from the Jesuit educational system implemented in 1549 and ending after the promulgation of the Brazilian National Law on Education (LDB) in 1996. Chapter 02 focuses on the role of discourse in the construction of reality, in the invention of tradition, and in the creation of the ideas of development and progress, which explained the need for civilization. This justified the colonization of lands and peoples and served as the basis for the invention of Western History. Chapter 03 refers to the invention of languages including English language, and English as an international language (EIL) and to the historical construction of identity based on the ideas of fixity and normality, denying its fluid and nomadic nature. The concluding chapter elicits current political events, addresses the implications of the circular nature of History on the construction of teacher identity and the negative status of the teaching profession, and also reiterates the need for a critical literacy-guided English language teacher education as a way of promoting changes.