Thesis (DAppLing)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, Department of Linguistics, 2008. / Bibliography: p. 404-418.

Published version of: Dissertation--University of Auckland (New Zealand), 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233).

Thesis advisor: Yukiko A. Hatasa, Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro. Includes bibliographic references (p. 165-172).

This diploma thesis deals with communication in kindergarten in selected communicative situations. The first part defines basic theoretical terms and, based on previous research, summarizes findings about pre-school education and mental and language development in pre- school children. The thesis also explains factors that influence language acquisition, child directed speech and pedagogical communication. The second part's main focus lies in describing communicative situations and in qualitative analysis of the acquired data - video recordings of selected communicative situation. The pocess of recording took place after previous agreement with two kindergartens. The recordings were transcribed according to the modified manual for the DIALOG database. The analysis is focused on the nature of the pedagogical communication in kindergarten. Our findings were compared to previous research results. Keywords communication, pedagogical communication, language acquisition, child directed speech, kindergarten

Cette recherche est située aux frontières de l’Esthétique et Sciences de l’art et des Sciences de l’information et de la communication. Notre hypothèse de départ réside dans la contribution de l’œuvre de Godard à une recherche pluridisciplinaire. Cinéaste, critique, théoricien, vidéaste, archiviste et téléaste, Jean-Luc Godard est l’auteur d’une œuvre métamorphique qui redéfinit radicalement les frontières du cinéma. Condamnant l’ambition hégémonique des technologies actuelles, tout en les absorbant dans une pratique cinématographique expérimentale, Godard développe une pensée en actes filmiques qui n’a pas rompu avec l’actualité. Le montage, au fondement de la création de Godard comme de ses prises de paroles, aménage un espace où la rencontre contrariée de signes discursifs, visuels et sonores, issus aussi bien du vaste champ de la culture littéraire, philosophique, musicale, cinématographique, artistique, classique et moderne que de la production artefactuelle contemporaine, permet de rompre avec nos habitudes spectatorielles. Le montage de Godard interroge le devenir de la communication par l’image et la parole et offre une issue esthétique au règne du visuel. Notre développement s’appuie sur des analyses de discours et de l’image, avec une attention soutenue aux métrages produits par Godard en parallèle et à la suite de la conception des Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). De manière affirmée depuis les années 1990, la pratique cinématographique de Godard s’est convertie à une écriture essayiste et multimédiatique. Le principe du réemploi étant au fondement même des métrages de Godard, nous avons développé une analyse des fragments et citations du cinéaste, selon une approche comparatiste, qui nous a permis de croiser, dans une ouverture pluridisciplinaire, plusieurs théories de l’image, de l’œuvre d’art et du langage, comme autant de points de vue critiques pour penser les potentialités de communication de la création audiovisuelle. Godard, acteur paradoxal de la fin du cinéma, redéfinit le devoir-être du cinéma dont il s’agit de devoir faire les leçons théoriques, dans un court-circuitage des premières théories du cinéma (Epstein, Faure, de la phénoménologie merleaupontienne et de la pensée deleuzienne. Traditionnellement perçue comme consubstantielle au cinéma, la représentation du réel procède d’une dialectique du visible et de l’invisible, à l’œuvre dans les créations de Godard qui métamorphosent les enjeux esthétiques et politiques de l’image en mouvement. Dans la filiation des penseurs de l’École de Francfort (Adorno, Benjamin) et du poststructuralisme français (Baudrillard, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault), les propositions esthétiques de Godard déploient une pensée qui redéfinit les conditions de l’émancipation politique et spectatorielle. Le cinéaste amène le spectateur-citoyen à une mise en cause radicale du semblant démocratique et lui propose, dans l’idée même de création et d’amour qui la génère, la possibilité de révéler les contours cachés du réel et de le modifier. Sarajevo, sujet central du cinéma tardif de Godard, permet d’ouvrir notre argumentaire aux possibilités d’action d’un montage éthique et politique pour dénoncer les formes plurielles d’aliénation qui s’établissent dans les politiques de disparition, la médiatisation des conflits et une communication qui agit à plusieurs niveaux. L’ambition de notre démonstration réside dans les possibilités de révolution contenues dans une forme que Godard appelle cinéma ou montage : un art de l’immaîtrisé et une force dissensuelle qui permettent d’interroger les relations entre esthétique et politique, dans le cadre d’une mutation généralisée des signes qui affecte le devenir anthropologique, économique et symbolique des sociétés. / This research is at the intersection of aesthetics, arts, and information and communication sciences. My initial hypothesis was based on the contribution of Godard's work to multidisciplinary research. As a filmmaker, critic, theoretician, video producer, archivist and television director, Jean-Luc Godard is the author of a metamorphic work, which radically redefined the boundaries of cinema. Godard challenged the hegemonic ambition of current technologies and, at the same time, integrated them in an experimental film practice. Thus, he has developed a pensée en actes filmiques, without breaking with current times. The montage at the foundation of Godard's creation, and also expressed in his discourses, has created a space in which the contrary confluence of discursive, visual and acoustic signs – stemming as much from the vast field of literary, philosophical, musical, cinematographic, classical and modern artistic culture as from contemporary artefact production – and leads the viewer to break with his habits. Godard’s montage has questioned the future of communication by image and word, and has offered an aesthetic concept to the domination of the visual. My thesis was based on discourse and image analysis, paying a close attention to the films produced by Godard during and following the conception of Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-1998). Since the 1990s, Godard's film practice has become that of an essayist and a writer of multimedia. The principle of re-use has been at the very foundation of Godard's films. By exploiting this, I analysed the filmmaker's fragments and quotes. I used a comparative and multidisciplinary approach which allowed me to embrace several picture, artwork and language theories, all of them being critical points of view to think about the potentials of communicating by audiovisual creation. Godard, as a paradoxical player of the end of cinema, redefined the film's devoir-être, i.e. an imperative short-circuiting of early film theory (Epstein, Faure), of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and of Deleuze’s philosophy. Traditionally perceived as an inherent element of cinema, the representation of reality proceeded from a dialectic of the visible and the invisible, at work in the creations of Godard which has metamorphosed the aesthetic and political issues of the moving image. In the wake of the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Benjamin) and of French poststructuralism (Baudrillard, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault), Godard's aesthetic propositions have deployed a thought that redefined the conditions of political and spectatorial emancipation. The filmmaker has encouraged the citizen-spectator to a radical questioning of the democratic facade and, in the very idea of creation and love, he has revealed the hidden contours of reality and the possibility of changing it. Sarajevo, the central subject of Godard's late cinema, opened up a debate on the possibilities of action of an ethical and political montage to denounce the plural forms of alienation in the policies of disappearance, the media coverage of conflicts and communication acting on several levels. The ambition of my demonstration lies in the possibilities of revolution contained in a form that Godard has called cinema or montage: an art of the uncontrolled and of dissent allowing to question anew the relations between aesthetics and politics, as part of widespread mutation of signs wich affects the anthropological, economic and symbolic future of societies.

76 Abstract The thesis deals with the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication in the speeches of Czech as a foreign language teachers, with an emphasis on nonverbal means, especially gestures and facial expressions. The analysis focuses on the verbal and nonverbal means by which teachers fulfill selected communication/pedagogical intentions and implement activities such as interpreting the material, practicing, instructing students or providing feedback, and the relationship between different types of means in different communication situations. The basic material of the analysis are video recordings of the teachers' speech in the teaching of Czech as a foreign language for adults obtained during the internships of students in the field of Teaching Czech as a Foreign Language. The results of the analysis confirmed that the teachers use deictic, illustrative and also symbolic gestures in selected recordings. Key words: Czech as a foreign language, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

76 Abstract The thesis deals with the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication in the speeches of Czech as a foreign language teachers, with an emphasis on nonverbal means, especially gestures and facial expressions. The analysis focuses on the verbal and nonverbal means by which teachers fulfill selected communication/pedagogical intentions and implement activities such as interpreting the material, practicing, instructing students or providing feedback, and the relationship between different types of means in different communication situations. The basic material of the analysis are video recordings of the teachers' speech in the teaching of Czech as a foreign language for adults obtained during the internships of students in the field of Teaching Czech as a Foreign Language. The results of the analysis confirmed that the teachers use deictic, illustrative and also symbolic gestures in selected recordings. Key words: Czech as a foreign language, nonverbal communication, verbal communication

Integrated writing tasks that combine reading, listening, and writing have become increasingly popular in assessing academic writing. These tasks are seen to offer more authenticity, improve fairness, and provide positive washback effects of the test on learning and teaching of English around the globe. However, the integrated nature of these tasks can pose some issues, such as construct-related validity and verbatim source use. Given that the inferences made from test scores depend upon the construct of the measure, it is important to have a working knowledge of how strategies are used on integrated writing tests as part of the process of construct validation. This study investigates the relationship between second language writers’ strategy use and performance on an integrated reading-listening-writing test using structural equation modeling and qualitative approaches. Data were collected from 161 non-native English-speaking students. The students first took an integrated reading-listening-writing test and followed by a strategy inventory on how they thought while completing the test. Twenty students, ten in the high-performance group and ten in the low-performance group, participated in a retrospective interview. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to identify the clusters of items based on three hypothetical factors: Rhetorical, Self-Regulatory, and Test-Wiseness Strategy Use. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was then utilized to test the hypothetical relations between observed and latent variables. Subsequently, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to model the relationship between students’ self-reported strategy use and their test performance. The data collected from retrospective interviews, an open-ended questionnaire, and planning sheets were analyzed to triangulate quantitative results and provide supplementary information in interpreting the quantitative data. The study illuminates the nature of integrated writing strategy use, the nature of integrated writing performance, and the relationship between strategy use and performance on an integrated reading-listening-writing test. The results of the study have implications for second language writing assessment and instruction as well as theory in second language academic writing. / text

Informed by, and seeking to contribute to, discussions about appropriate methodology (e.g. Holliday, 1994), my study as reported in this thesis was concerned with appropriacy of paradigms in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). It explored practitioner perspectives in Thai higher education (HE) in this era when English has become 'the' main international language for intercultural communication (IC). This linkage between English as an international language (EIL) and IC is evident in the strategy of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) - of which Thailand was a founding member in 1967 - for greater economic, cultural and socio-political integration among its members. For practitioners like me, this regional strategic move in conjunction with Thai policies and curricular documentation raises questions about the appropriacy of the established practices of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in Thailand. My multi-method qualitative case study addressed such questions by exploring the perspectives of three Thai-national teachers of English working in a Thai public university regarding the purposes of, and assumptions underpinning, their teaching of English. As informed by an understanding of their perspectives, I then considered the possible influences which might have shaped these perspectives. The study identified the teachers' main purposes to be short-term, instrumental ones - i.e. for academic study and examination preparation purposes. As such, they tended not to attach much value to the teaching of the cultural dimension (i.e. the target culture of native English speakers [NESs], the students' home cultures and other cultures) or intercultural dimension (i.e. knowledge, skills and mindset needed for engaging people from differing cultural backgrounds). These purposes were underpinned by assumptions they held about the NES linguistic norms as testable norms in TEFL and Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP). The teachers seemed unfamiliar with alternative paradigms - such as Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) - that might align top-level policy statements and actual classroom practices. This unfamiliarity suggests the inadequacy of the teachers' educational and professional development experiences. The influences from their institution such as exams-oriented and English-medium academic agendas also had repercussions for the teachers' perspectives. Stepping back from the teachers' perspectives, my study suggested discourse inconsistencies across Thai HE regarding paradigms and purposes of TESOL. This situation is unhelpful vis-à-vis the ASEAN foregrounding of EIL for IC, and the consequent need, through TESOL, to prepare Thai students to engage in IC with people within and beyond ASEAN. My study has implications for a direction of change for TESOL in the Thai HE and possibly for similar contexts elsewhere. It offers some suggestions about teacher education that can be supportive of reorienting TESOL towards appropriate and purposeful paradigms.

A doença de Alzheimer, doença neurodegenerativa, em que a dificuldade de encontrar palavras é um dos déficits mais presentes, mesmo em estágios iniciais já ocorrem alterações focalmente no hipocampo e giros parahipocampais. Com o avanço da doença, a dificuldade de encontrar palavras e o uso de itens lexicais efetivos ficam muitas vezes mais comprometidos sugerindo distribuição difusa da doença no encéfalo. A dificuldade em encontrar palavras ou anomia se deve consensualmente à deterioração do processamento semântico e ao déficit da memória operacional. Ainda, mesmo nesses estágios iniciais da doença, muitos pacientes relatam dificuldades em encontrar os itens lexicais adequados para seguir uma conversação, o que os constrange causando isolamento e falta de interações comunicativas verbais. Esse relato indica que eles têm consciência dessa perda cognitiva. Nas conversações ou interações sociais entre pacientes e cuidadores, muitas vezes a dificuldade de encontrar os itens lexicais não é claramente percebida. Entretanto, com o progresso da doença essa incompreensão se acentua, gerando situações estressantes e de sobrecarga, especialmente para o cuidador. A presente pesquisa objetivou analisar os itens lexicais no discurso oral dos pacientes com doença de Alzheimer, verificar aquelas palavras mais preservadas, que visem à elaboração de estratégias linguísticas adequadas e que permitam o desenvolvimento de mecanismos discursivos, a fim de identificar estratégias que possam melhorar a interação entre cuidadores e pacientes. Neste estudo avaliaram-se os itens lexicais verbos e substantivos, hápax e as oito outras categorias gramaticais da língua portuguesa de 23 pacientes com doença de Alzheimer e 23 idosos controles sadios. Os itens selecionados foram extraídos de conversações livres por no máximo 20 minutos com os temas: cidade, família, educação, alimentação, saúde e religião. Foi utilizado o programa Stablex que efetua o tratamento computacional de itens lexicais e confecções de léxico para identificar os itens lexicais mais frequentes e com maior peso ou valor. Os resultados indicam que os pacientes têm maior dificuldade em nomear substantivos, especialmente seres vivos, p<0,05. Ainda, esses pacientes apresentam maior preservação de itens lexicais concretos em relação aos itens lexicais abstratos. Além disso, foi observada maior preservação de verbos do que de substantivos, hápax fica preservado nos pacientes com doença de Alzheimer, p<0.001. Os adjetivos, p<0,001, interjeições, p<0,001,artigos e preposições p<0,001, também são significantes na doença. Conclui-se, assim, que embora os pacientes tenham perda lexical progressiva, suas habilidades comunicativas, semântico-pragmáticas não estão muito alteradas e que os pacientes ao serem estimulados com frases curtas, com aquelas palavras mais preservadas no seu léxico ainda podem se comunicar e interagir oralmente. Portanto, as análises de itens lexicais nos discursos orais dos pacientes com doença de Alzheimer não só contribuirão para o entendimento dos déficits de linguagem, mas também oferecerão formas de melhorar a comunicação entre pacientes e cuidadores / Alzheimer\'s disease, neurodegenerative disease, wherein the word-finding difficulty is one of the most common deficits, even at early stages alterations occur focally in the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyri. With disease progression, the word-finding difficulty and effective use of lexical items are often more affected suggesting diffuse distribution of the disease in the brain. The word-finding difficulty or anomie is consensually to the deterioration of semantic processing or the occurrence of impaired connection between the lexical and semantic level as well as the working memory impairment. Yet, even in these early stages of the disease, many patients report difficulties in finding suitable lexical items to follow a conversation, therefore the patients get constrained, causing isolation and lack of verbal communicative interactions. This indicates that they are aware of this cognitive loss. In conversations or social interactions between patients and caregivers, often the difficulty of finding lexical items is not clearly perceived. These caregivers often help the patient to complete the words and sentences inferring meanings thereby masking the stage of disease. However, with the progress of the disease misunderstanding increases, causing overload and stressful situations, especially for the caregiver. The current study aimed at analyzing the lexical items in oral discourse of patients with Alzheimer\'s disease, to verify the most retained words in order to develop appropriate linguistic strategies enabling the development of discursive mechanisms to identify strategies to improve the interaction between caregivers and patients. This study evaluated the lexical items, verbs, nouns hápax and the other eight grammatical categories of Portuguese language of 23 patients with Alzheimer\'s disease and 23 healthy elderly controls. The selected items were drawn from free conversations of at least 20 minutes with the themes: city, family, education, food, health and religion. We used Stablex program that performs the computational treatment of lexical items and creates lexicons to identify more frequently lexical items and with their weight or value. The results indicate patients have greater difficulty in naming living things, p<0.05. Also, these patients have higher retention of concrete lexical items in relation to abstract lexical items. Moreover, hapax is retained in Alzheimers disease, p<0.001. It is attributed to the greater number of nouns in the languages compared to verbs or because, perhaps, the frontal areas of the brain where the verbs are represented are affected later. Also, it was observed that the lexical item hapax is significant in patients with Alzheimer\'s disease. Adjectives, p<0,001, interjections, p<0,001, articles and prepositions, p<0,001, are also significant during the disease, We conclude, therefore, that although patients have progressive lexical loss, their communication and semantic-pragmatic skills are not much changed, and when patients are stimulated with short sentences with words that are more retained in their lexicons they can still communicate and interact verbally. Therefore, the analysis of lexical items in oral discourse of patients with Alzheimers disease not only contributes to the understanding of language deficits, but also it will offer ways to improve communication between patients and caregivers