In the teaching and learning of literacy, descriptions of text have a problematic status as a result of the growing understanding of literacy as both a cognitive process and a social practice. In the teaching of academic subjects at university, student text is not usually an object of study. The research in this thesis draws on a language based theory oflearning to place textual description at the centre of the teaching and learning of both literacy and academic subjects at university. Participant observation and practice-based research methods were used to implement a form of text-oriented literacy teaching and to explore its compatibility with processes and practices orientations to literacy. Over an eighteen month period, systemic functional grammar was used to investigate and describe the texts of a film studies classroom and the descriptions were used in genre based literacy pedagogy. The effects of the pedagogy are measured in terms of students' performance in an end of course assignment, students' accounts of their writing processes, and student and subject-tutor perception of the text description and the pedagogy. In the thesis, a linguistic description of a key curriculum genre -a Taxonomic Film Analysis -is presented. An account is given of the pedagogy by means of which this essay genre was represented in the film studies classroom as a realisation of choices from linguistic, conceptual and activity systems. Systemic functional grammar-based text description is seen to have provided a means whereby a literacy tutor could collaborate with a subject tutor to provide a subject-specific form of literacy teaching which was evaluated as relevant by students and tutors. The account and the evaluation help to clarify the role that description of text can play in relation to processes and practices ofliteracy use in the teaching and learning of literacy in a film studies classroom and have implications for the teaching and learning of literacy at university more generally.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-05-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:26:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 fusco_ac_me_sjrp.pdf: 456420 bytes, checksum: 8e2bcc0ab0fcd8c32306e5f7bfbd0565 (MD5) / Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe-se a investigar se e de que modo a relação aluno/professora de Língua Portuguesa se (re)constitui em práticas de letramento/escrita em ambientes virtuais de enunciação. O conjunto do material é formado por 23 “conversas” via Windows Live Messenger (popularmente chamado de MSN), coletadas entre 2010 e 2011, totalizando 8h31min de interação on-line entre adolescentes ─ alunos da rede municipal de ensino de São José do Rio Preto (SP), na faixa etária de 13 a 15 anos, com acesso frequente à internet e às práticas de letramento/escrita em meio digital ─ e professora de Língua Portuguesa. Ao analisarem-se essas “conversas”, tenciona-se discutir que a escrita em ambientes digitais – por ser prática social de linguagem – não se constitui apenas em função da tecnologia que lhe dá suporte – embora não se possa desprezá-la –, mas a partir de um conjunto de relações dialógicas com a alteridade. Ao apresentar análise descritiva do corpus à luz dos conceitos de heterogeneidade propostos por Authier-Revuz (2004) e do modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita, proposto por Corrêa (2004), este trabalho busca investigar, nos enunciados analisados, marcas linguísticas que demonstrem que a escrita constitui-se como modo de enunciação dividida entre sujeitos socialmente organizados e historicamente situados. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho discute marcas linguísticas – pontos de heterogeneidade – que denotam que, ao “conversarem” pelo MSN, os sujeitos, ao mesmo tempo, atualizam e transformam as relações que os constituem enquanto aluno e professora / This research paper aims to investigate if and in which way the Portuguese Language teacher/student relation is (re)established in literacy/writing practices in virtual environments of utterance. The material, which was collected between 2010 and 2011, is composed of 23 “chats” via Windows Live Messenger (MSN), with a total of 8h31min online interaction between the teenagers – local school students from São José do Rio Preto (SP), between 13 and 15 years old, who frequently had access to the internet and the literacy/writing practices in electronic format - and the Portuguese Language teacher. The analyzes of these chats argues that the writing in digital environment – for being language social practice- is not only constituted by the technological function support – although this cannot be despised -, but also from a group of dialogue relations on account of the otherness. By presenting the corpus descriptive analyzes according to the concepts of heterogeneity suggested by Authier-Revuz (2004) and the heterogeneous mode of the writing constitution proposed by Corrêa (2004), this paper aims to show (in the analyzed material) linguistic marks, which demonstrate that the writing consists of utterance mode, divided into socially organized and historically situated individuals. The present paper then, tries to show that it is possible to point out linguistic marks - heterogeneity points – ,which mean that once individuals are chatting on the MSN, they are not only updating their already constituted teacher/student relation, but also transforming it

Thesis (Ph.D.(Curriculum studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Fabiana Cristina Komesu / Banca: Lourenço Chacon Jurado Filho / Banca: Fernanda Correa Silveira Galli / Resumo: Este trabalho de pesquisa propõe-se a investigar se e de que modo a relação aluno/professora de Língua Portuguesa se (re)constitui em práticas de letramento/escrita em ambientes virtuais de enunciação. O conjunto do material é formado por 23 "conversas" via Windows Live Messenger (popularmente chamado de MSN), coletadas entre 2010 e 2011, totalizando 8h31min de interação on-line entre adolescentes ─ alunos da rede municipal de ensino de São José do Rio Preto (SP), na faixa etária de 13 a 15 anos, com acesso frequente à internet e às práticas de letramento/escrita em meio digital ─ e professora de Língua Portuguesa. Ao analisarem-se essas "conversas", tenciona-se discutir que a escrita em ambientes digitais - por ser prática social de linguagem - não se constitui apenas em função da tecnologia que lhe dá suporte - embora não se possa desprezá-la -, mas a partir de um conjunto de relações dialógicas com a alteridade. Ao apresentar análise descritiva do corpus à luz dos conceitos de heterogeneidade propostos por Authier-Revuz (2004) e do modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita, proposto por Corrêa (2004), este trabalho busca investigar, nos enunciados analisados, marcas linguísticas que demonstrem que a escrita constitui-se como modo de enunciação dividida entre sujeitos socialmente organizados e historicamente situados. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho discute marcas linguísticas - pontos de heterogeneidade - que denotam que, ao "conversarem" pelo MSN, os sujeitos, ao mesmo tempo, atualizam e transformam as relações que os constituem enquanto aluno e professora / Abstract: This research paper aims to investigate if and in which way the Portuguese Language teacher/student relation is (re)established in literacy/writing practices in virtual environments of utterance. The material, which was collected between 2010 and 2011, is composed of 23 "chats" via Windows Live Messenger (MSN), with a total of 8h31min online interaction between the teenagers - local school students from São José do Rio Preto (SP), between 13 and 15 years old, who frequently had access to the internet and the literacy/writing practices in electronic format - and the Portuguese Language teacher. The analyzes of these chats argues that the writing in digital environment - for being language social practice- is not only constituted by the technological function support - although this cannot be despised -, but also from a group of dialogue relations on account of the otherness. By presenting the corpus descriptive analyzes according to the concepts of heterogeneity suggested by Authier-Revuz (2004) and the heterogeneous mode of the writing constitution proposed by Corrêa (2004), this paper aims to show (in the analyzed material) linguistic marks, which demonstrate that the writing consists of utterance mode, divided into socially organized and historically situated individuals. The present paper then, tries to show that it is possible to point out linguistic marks - heterogeneity points - ,which mean that once individuals are chatting on the MSN, they are not only updating their already constituted teacher/student relation, but also transforming it / Mestre

No description available.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:07:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IvoneideBAS_TESE.pdf: 4327530 bytes, checksum: ef3ce39f9202e92ca13348582d1e0d3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-28 / This ethnographical research-action is included in the Applied Linguistics area and its study object is related to literacy projects (KLEIMAN, 2000), since they bring a new sense to the literacy practices in school and emphasizes the agentive writing character and the role of the discursive genres in the formation of literacy agents who aim at the action and the social change. Considering the emancipatory potential that these didactic organizations have in the civic literacy of those who live in social risk and vulnerability situations our aim in this investigation is: to reflect about the role of the redefinition of the literacy school practices and investigate how the action of teachers and students as literacy agents occur. The specific aims are: to promote literacy events which encourage the writing practice for the action and social change; to comprehend how the identity construction of the literacy student-agent occurs by the reflection of its agency process in the literacy projects; to identify teaching strategies and procedures which enable the development of emancipatory language practices; to investigate the axiological values constructed by the learners in and about the writing work in literacy projects. Our discussion is based on the language conception supported by Bakhtin (BAKHTIN/VOLOSHINOV, 2000; BAKHTIN, 1990, 2003); in literacy studies (KLEIMAN, 1995; BAYNHAM, 1995; BARTON; HAMILTON; IVANIC, 2000, LAZERE, 2005); on critical studies which defend the idea that the texts are ideological instruments able to give power to the individuals (MCLAREN, 1988, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001; FREIRE, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1992, 1996, 2001a, 2001b, 2009; GIROUX, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2003; APPLE, 1989); on the social genre approach inspired by the New Rhetoric (BAZERMAN, 2005, 2006, 2007; MILLER, 1984, 2009). The data were generated between 2006 and 2010 in the Youth and Adult Education (YAE), in public schools in Natal-RN. The research permitted us to deduce, firstly, that the redefinition of the work with discursive genres provide the learner to read and write to act discursively in the social world, earning, thus, empowerment, autonomy and emancipation; secondly, that involving the students in literacy projects goes beyond didactic competence related to specificities and content domain. It is necessary that the teacher is certain about to whom, what, why and how to teach and that he/she gets a reflexive posture, becoming a learner as well; thirdly, that through the literacy practices which were developed, the collaborators of the research have constructed a more conscious and a more critical view in relation to the language and to the world where they live through the social-political writing and they have improved as interventive and politicized citizens / Esta pesquisa-a??o, de vertente etnogr?fica, se insere no campo da Lingu?stica Aplicada, tendo por objeto de estudo os projetos de letramento (KLEIMAN, 2000), por imprimirem um novo sentido ?s pr?ticas de letramento escolarizadas, pondo em relevo o car?ter agentivo da escrita e o papel dos g?neros discursivos na forma??o de agentes de letramento que visam ? a??o e ? mudan?a social. Considerando o potencial emancipat?rio que assumem essas organiza??es did?ticas no letramento c?vico de educandos que vivem em situa??o de risco e vulnerabilidade social, objetivamos, nesta investiga??o: refletir sobre o papel dos projetos na ressignifica??o das pr?ticas de letramento escolar e investigar como se d? a a??o de professores e alunos como agentes de letramento. De forma mais espec?fica, elegemos como objetivos: promover eventos de letramento que oportunizem a pr?tica da escrita para a a??o e a mudan?a social; compreender como se d? a constru??o identit?ria de alunos-agentes de letramento, refletindo sobre seu processo de ag?ncia nos projetos de letramento; identificar estrat?gias e procedimentos de ensino que possibilitam o desenvolvimento de pr?ticas de linguagem emancipat?rias; investigar valores axiol?gicos constru?dos pelos educandos no e sobre o trabalho com a escrita em projetos de letramento. A nossa discuss?o est? ancorada na concep??o de linguagem de base bakhtiniana (BAKHTIN/VOLOSHINOV, 2000; BAKHTIN, 1990, 2003); nos estudos de letramento (KLEIMAN, 1995; BAYNHAM, 1995; BARTON; HAMILTON; IVANIC, 2000, LAZERE, 2005); nos estudos cr?ticos defensores da ideia de que os textos se constituem em instrumentos ideol?gicos capazes de conferir poder aos indiv?duos (MCLAREN, 1988, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001; FREIRE, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1992, 1996, 2001a, 2001b, 2009; GIROUX, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2003; APPLE, 1989); na abordagem social de g?nero inspirada na Nova Ret?rica (BAZERMAN, 2005, 2006, 2007; MILLER, 1984, 2009). Os dados foram gerados no per?odo de 2006 a 2010, na Educa??o de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), em escolas da rede p?blica de ensino de Natal-RN. A pesquisa permitiu-nos depreender, em primeiro lugar, que a ressignifica??o do trabalho com os g?neros discursivos abre a possibilidade para que o educando leia e escreva para agir discursivamente no mundo social, ganhando, assim, empoderamento, autonomia e emancipa??o; em segundo lugar, que envolver alunos em projetos de letramento vai al?m de uma compet?ncia did?tica vinculada a especificidades e ao dom?nio de conte?dos. ? preciso que o professor tenha clareza de para quem, o qu?, por que e como ensinar e assuma uma postura reflexiva, tornando-se tamb?m um aprendiz; em terceiro lugar, que a partir das pr?ticas de letramento desenvolvidas, os colaboradores da pesquisa constru?ram uma vis?o mais consciente e cr?tica em rela??o ? l?ngua e ao mundo no qual atuaram, mediante a escrita sociopol?tica, como cidad?os interventivos e politizados