The investigation aimed at identifying the factors that accounted for the teacher trainees’ low understanding of basic scientific concepts and the appropriate strategies needed to rectify these obstacles. In this investigation thirty open ended questions were administered to test three hundred teacher trainees’ understanding of science concepts. Also, observations were conducted during science lessons to monitor the participation of trainees. The teacher trainees’ poor background in science was identified. Inflexible teaching methods such as lecturing and provision of pointers to correct answers by teachers contributed. Teacher trainees lacked the necessary conceptual, logical and linguistic background, and the vocabulary to express themselves in English. Most science lessons did not consider media integration, but were conducted through verbal communication. Teacher trainees employed ineffective study techniques in learning science. Recommendations included reading assignments, laboratory work, media integration and the employment of effective study techniques in the teaching and learning of science. / Teacher Education / Thesis (M. Ed. (Didactics))

SAMMANFATTNING: Problem Från 2013 till och med april 2016 har Sverige tagit emot 309.669 asylsökande. De stora vågorna av asylsökande som har kommit understryker behovet av att ge de optimala förutsättningarna för att anpassa sig och integreras i samhället. Hur snabbt och i vilken grad asylsökande lyckas att socialiseras och integreras i samhället är relaterat till de grundläggande villkoren som t.ex. språkträning och samhällsorientering. Denna studie undersöker vilka möjligheter och hinder asylsökande får för att lära sig svenska och höja sina chanser till integration. Metod I studien användes en mixad metod (kvalitativ och kvantitativ). Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med personal och volontär lärare, har sju verksamheter (ABF, NBV, Biblioteket, Vuxenskola, BILDA, Folkuniversitet och Röda Korset) undersökts. Genom en enkät med strukturerade frågeformulär, undersöktes 183 asylsökande vad gäller olika faktorer som påverkar tillgänglighet till språkundervisning och motivation för studier och språklig praxis. Enkäterna delades ut i: Jönköping, Nässjö, Bodafors, Viebäck, Vetlanda, Sävsjö, Värnamo, Vaggeryd, Tokeryd och Skillingaryd. Resultat Kvalitativa delen: De intervjuade säger att det är viktigt att erbjuda svenskundervisning till asylsökande från första dagen de kommer till Sverige. Lärarna lyfter upp frågan om att det finns flera brister som utgör svårigheter för verksamheterna så att de kan erbjuda kvalitativ och tillräcklig undervisning. Kvantitativa delen: Motivationen till språkinlärning påverkas av flera faktorer: tiden sedan ankomst, motivationen till och deltagande i språkundervisning. Trots likheter i utbildning och språkkunskaper mellan könen ändå uppstår könsskillnader i praktisk tillämpning och integration. Slutsats Asylsökande strävar efter att bli en del av det svenska samhället. Det finns könsskillnader i praktisk tillämpning och integration. Förutsättningarna för att lära sig svenska språket är inte tillräckligt bra, p.g.a. informationsbrist eller försening av informationen om erbjuden svenskundervisning, för få erbjudna undervisningstimmar, placering utanför samhället, ekonomiska hinder och bristen på barnomsorg, som även påverkar möjligheten att lära sig svenska och integrera sig i samhället. / ABSTRACT Problem From 2013 to April 2016, Sweden has received 309,669 asylum seekers. The great waves of asylum seekers who have come underscores the need to provide the optimal conditions to adapt and integrate into society. How fast and to what degree they manage to socialize and integrate into society is related to the basic conditions such as language training and civic orientation. This study examines the opportunities and obstacles for asylum seekers to learn Swedish and increase their chances to integrate. Method The study used a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) approach. Through qualitative interviews with staff and volunteer teachers, has seven such activities as (ABF, NBV, Library, Adult education” Vuxenskola”, BILDA, Folkuniversitet and Red Cross) investigated. Through a questionnaire with structured questionnaires, examined 183 asylum seekers in terms of factors that affect the availability to the teaching and motivation for study and linguistic practices. The questionnaires were distributed in Jönköping, Nässjö, Bodafors, Viebäck, Vetlanda, Sävsjö, Värnamo, Vaggeryd, Tokeryd and Skillingaryd. Result Qualitative part: Those interviewed said that it is important to offer Swedish tuition for asylum seekers from the first day they come to Sweden. Teachers raise the issue that there are several shortcomings that make difficulties for businesses so that they can provide quality and adequate education. Quantitative part: The motivation for language learning is influenced by several factors: among them, the time since arrival the motivation for and participation in language teaching. Despite similarities in education and language skills between the sexes, still significant gender differences in the practical application and integration. Conclusion Asylum seekers strive to become a part of Swedish society. There are gender differences in the practical application and integration. The conditions for learning the Swedish language is not good enough, because lack of information or delay of information for offered Swedish teaching, too few offered teaching hours, location outside of society, economic barriers and the lack of childcare, which also affects the ability to learn Swedish and integrate into society.

Ce travail interroge la place du français en Moldavie avant et après son indépendance en 1991, dans des contextes d’héritage historique, de tradition d’enseignement et de mondialisation. Il examine l’existence d’une politique linguistique à l’égard du français et le positionnement des citoyens par rapport à cette politique. Les acteurs de la francophonie, qu’ils soient endogènes ou exogènes (comme les institutions de la Francophonie) et leur action à l’égard du français font partie du champ de recherche. Cette étude s'appuie sur un corpus constitué de documents d’archives (1975-2010), d’une enquête sociolinguistique (2009), de textes réglementaires récents (2011-2013), d’entretiens avec des acteurs du système éducatif et de la francophonie en Moldavie, d’articles de médias et de publications statistiques. Le croisement des analyses de discours socio-éducatifs et des changements de perspective socio-économique permet d’obtenir des éléments éclairant les problématiques abordées. / This work looks at the place of the French language in Moldova before and after its independence in 1991, from the perspective of the historical heritage, teaching traditions and globalization. It examines the existence of a language policy with respect to the French language and the positioning of the citizens in relation to this policy. The actors of the French-speaking world, whether endogenous or exogenous (such as the institutions of the French-speaking world - Francophonie) and their action with respect to the French language are part of the research field. This study is based on a corpus made up of archive documents (1975-2010), a sociolinguistic survey (2009), recent regulations (2011-2013), interviews with actors in the education system and the French-speaking world (Francophonie) in Moldova, media articles and statistical publications. Cross-referencing the analysis of socio-educational discourses and changes in the socio-economic perspective provides information that helps clarify the issues addressed.

This thesis deals with the use of the activating teaching approaches and their effectiveness for understanding and mastering the grammatical phenomena of adult students, mainly in the corporate courses for German language. The students of the corporate courses have their specific set of learning aspects, particularly in the field of their learning biography, motivation, and the learning process that distinguishes them from the school-age students. These students, usually at the language level from A1 to B1 (CEFR), require the acquisition of grammatical features to improve their language production. Grammatical phenomena are taught in this method of teaching using classical, complex and activating approaches. The empirical research of this thesis deals specifically with the activating teaching approaches in the corporate courses. It contains the observations of the individual corporate lessons using activating approaches as well as questionnaires filled in by participating students. The thesis concludes und evaluates the contribution of activating teaching approaches to the motivation during the lesson, the effect that they have on the understanding and acquisition of the given grammatical phenomena for the target group of adult students. For the thesis conclusion, there have been formulated five...

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Translation. Johannesburg, 2016 / There are eleven official languages in South Africa. However, only two of these languages – English and Afrikaans – are dominant. It is often argued that this is because the other 9 official languages do not have enough terminology to be used in institutions of higher learning and in technical fields. I argue that the adaptation of literary texts helps in improving the status of African languages. For this purpose this research involves an analysis of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which has been adapted into an English novel Hill of Fools by Peteni (1976) and later translated into isiXhosa as Kwazidenge (Peteni 1980). The analysis consists of a comparison between extracts from Romeo and Juliet and Kwazidenge via Hill of Fools using Lambert and van Gorp’s (1985) practical model for textual analysis. I argue that as much as Romeo and Juliet can be seen as a difficult text because of Shakespeare’s English, Peteni was successful in adapting the play into isiXhosa. / MT2017

Considerando a importância de tornar a educação e a prática docente mais próximas à realidade do educando e da sociedade contemporânea e considerando ainda a relevância que as novas tecnologias de informação e os recursos midiáticos podem somar ao processo educativo, essa pesquisa investigou as contribuições da utilização do software Movie Maker para a construção de narrativas digitais. À luz do embasamento teórico, realizamos uma análise das produções dos educandos com o intuito de averiguar os avanços obtidos, resultados e entraves da metodologia aplicada. Esta investigação foi baseada numa lógica seqüencial de construção do conceito, desenvolvida dentro da teoria sócio-construtivista. Foram utilizadas a diversidade dos recursos midiáticos e das novas tecnologias de informação para despertar a curiosidade e a reflexão e para que através do contato com o novo, surgisse o conflito cognitivo, a fim de que o aluno adquirisse saberes que o habilitasse a explicar um processo, formular um conceito, chegando a um nível de conhecimento maior. Avaliamos os recursos midiáticos como importantes ferramentas de contextualização e renovação de conteúdos didáticos, bem como poderosos meios de motivação e sedução discente para o aprender a aprender.(ASSMANN, 2002). Trata-se de uma pesquisa realizada com alunos do ciclo fundamental II e EJA de escolas públicas, sendo que o material analisado, foi coletado no laboratório de informática e sala de aula. Para obtenção dos dados da pesquisa, fui simultaneamente educadora e pesquisadora. Os dados obtidos durante o processo de investigação permite avaliar que efetivamente houve a contribuição, especifica do software Movie Maker, como ferramenta procedimental para a melhoria da produção oral e escrita do gênero narrativo pelos alunos envolvidos. Além disso, o processo investigativo reforçou a certeza de que a mediação do professor é fundamental para a construção do conhecimento formal. / Considering the importance of making the education and the teaching practice nearer to the reality of the pupil and of the contemporary society and considering still the relevance what new technologies of information and media resources can add up to the educative process, this research investigated the results of the use of Movie Maker software for the construction of digital narratives. By the light of the theoretical foundation, we carry out an analysis of the pupils productions with the intention of checking the obtained advancements, results and obstacles of the hard-working methodology. This investigation was based on a construction of the concept sequential logic, developed inside the social-constructivist theory. It was used media resources and information new technologies diversity to wake curiosity and reflection so that, through the contact with the new, the cognitive conflict appeared, and so that, from then on, the pupil acquired knowledge that would enable him to explain a process, to formulate a concept, reaching so a level of better knowledge (DIJK, 1992). We considered media resources as important tools of context and renovation of educational contents, as well as mighty ways of motivation and learning seduction for learning to learn (ASSMANN, 2002). A research carried out with pupils of the Basic II Cycle of public schools, being that most of the analysed material were collected in the computer science laboratory and in the classroom, that´s what this is all about. For getting the research data, I was simultaneously an educator and investigator. The data obtained during the process of investigation allow us to evaluate that there effectively was specific contribution of Movie Maker software, like procedure tool for the improvement of oral and written production of narrative type for the involved pupils. Besides, we can think that the teacher´s mediation is basic for the construction of formal knowledge.

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 2016-04-28T18:22:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao LUCIANE NIGRO CHARLARIELLO.pdf: 911814 bytes, checksum: d1d067e4d280f494280cc764260aff8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-12-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / ABSTRACT This work belongs to the research area Language and Education. It aims to investigate the didatic unit: No violence: It s just a game which was developed by a group of teachers, including the author. These teachers work in Public Schools of São Paulo. This unit was created during the last module of the course Reflection on Action . I set out to examine, explain theoretically and criticize this unit (prescribed activity) and its application (realized activity) and I intend to make suggestions to reconstruct it. In other words, the development of this work will be basically a process of Critic Reflection according to Smith (description, informing, confrontation and reconstruction). The theoretical framework is based on Activity Theory (Vygotsky, 1934/2002, 1924/1984; Leontiev, 1977, 1978, 1998; Engeström, 1987, 1999, 1999a).It is also based on PCNs (1996, 1998) which were discussed with regard to teaching foreign language, sociointeracionism, critical view of teaching-learning and a dialogical perspective of language. This research will be considered a critical one with a collaborative view, because it envolves the combined complex of investigation of action that aims the understanding, analysis and critic of action context aiming to the transformation of this context. The researcher is one of the participants who studies her action context, interferes and transforms her context. The methodology will be a documental analisis (the didatic unit), involving recording classes and transcription (the application of the unit).The data analysis and interpretation suggest that the didatic unit and the classes praise the development of discursive base to discursive engadgement into English language partially, and also the development of critical conscience, and it was based on transversal theme. / O trabalho aqui analisado está inserido na linha de pesquisa Linguagem e Educação e visa investigar a unidade didática: No-violence: It s just a game , desenvolvida por um grupo de professores da rede pública do estado de São Paulo, durante o último módulo do curso Reflexão sobre a Ação. Proponho-me a examinar essa unidade didática (atividade prescrita), explicá-la teoricamente e criticá-la com vistas, também, à sua aplicação (atividade realizada) e pretendo fazer propostas de mudanças, ou seja, o desenvolvimento da dissertação será basicamente um processo de reflexão crítica de Smith (1992): descrever, informar, confrontar e reconstruir. O presente estudo está embasado na Teoria da Atividade Sócio-Histórica-Cultural conforme discutido por Vygotsky (1924/1984, 1934/2002), Leontiev (1977,1978,1998) e Engeström (1987,1999,1999a). Também se pauta nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (1996,1998), os quais foram discutidos em relação ao ensino de língua estrangeira, ao sociointeracionismo, à visão crítica de ensino-aprendizagem e à perspectiva dialógica de linguagem. Esta pesquisa foi considerada como crítica com cunho colaborativo, pois envolve o processo conjunto de investigação da ação que visa a apreensão, análise e crítica de contextos de ação com foco na sua transformação, tendo a pesquisadora como uma das participantes focais, que estuda seu contexto de ação, interfere e modifica seu contexto. Para isso, foi utilizada a análise documental (a unidade didática) e foram gravadas e transcritas as nove aulas (aplicação da unidade). Os resultados mostraram que a unidade didática e suas aulas favorecem parcialmente o desenvolvimento de base discursiva para engajamento discursivo na língua inglesa, assim como o desenvolvimento de consciência crítica, e foi totalmente pautada em tema transversal.

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.

Wang Junju. / "April 2004." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-316). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.