Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-01-09T17:37:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 simoneborrelliachtschin.pdf: 3253783 bytes, checksum: 1a98485204e9a2cfd5a9968e87d71d54 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-01-22T18:15:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 simoneborrelliachtschin.pdf: 3253783 bytes, checksum: 1a98485204e9a2cfd5a9968e87d71d54 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-01-22T18:15:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 simoneborrelliachtschin.pdf: 3253783 bytes, checksum: 1a98485204e9a2cfd5a9968e87d71d54 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-22T18:15:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 simoneborrelliachtschin.pdf: 3253783 bytes, checksum: 1a98485204e9a2cfd5a9968e87d71d54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-05 / O Sistema Municipal de Ensino de Juiz de Fora/MG regulamenta que as escolas, de sua rede, utilizem os conceitos Satisfatório (S) e Não Satisfatório (NS) como forma de registro de avaliação em turmas de alfabetização. Pautada na dificuldade de aplicação destes conceitos, investiguei, por meio da prática relatada, os critérios que cinco professoras alfabetizadoras adotam para caracterizar seus alunos como satisfatoriamente alfabetizados. Foi, também, objeto de investigação o modo como avaliam e as dificuldades que encontram na aplicabilidade desses conceitos. Com base na abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, os dados foram gerados por meio de dois instrumentos: (i) entrevistas semiestruturadas e (ii) reprodução de documentos. A partir da análise dos dados, foi possível constatar que as professoras adotam tanto critérios específicos da alfabetização e do letramento, quanto não específicos. Avaliam os alunos de modo formal e informal e, por não terem parâmetros para compreender o que seja satisfatoriamente alfabetizado, encontram dificuldades para aplicarem os conceitos S e NS. / The Municipal System of Education to Juiz de Fora / MG regulates schools in their network, using the concepts Satisfactory (S) and Not Satisfactory (NS) as a way to record assessment in literacy classes. Guided by the difficulty of applying these concepts, investigated, reported through practice, the criteria that five teachers literacy teachers adopt to describe their students as well literate. It was also the subject of investigation and assess how the difficulties encountered in the applicability of research approach, data werw gerated through two instruments: (i) semi structured interviews and (ii) reproduction of documents.From the data analysis, it was established that both the teachers adopt specific standards of literacy and literacy, as nonspecific. Assess students formally and informally, and for failing to understand the parameters that is sufficiently literate, have difficulty applying the concepts S an NS.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-07-14T18:03:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelbarrososilva.pdf: 1427564 bytes, checksum: 5d3e841c31590f01725ac316356abcef (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-19T15:46:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelbarrososilva.pdf: 1427564 bytes, checksum: 5d3e841c31590f01725ac316356abcef (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-19T15:46:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 raquelbarrososilva.pdf: 1427564 bytes, checksum: 5d3e841c31590f01725ac316356abcef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-31 / FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais / A presente dissertação realiza um levantamento e uma análise da produção letrada de Joaquim José da França Junior, dramaturgo, jornalista, e paisagista que viveu entre 1838 e 1890, e escreveu a partir da década de 1860. O objetivo central foi recuperar a trajetória profissional de França Junior analisando os diferentes momentos de sua produção letrada e o lugar que esta produção ocupou no Rio de Janeiro das três últimas décadas do século XIX. Dados sobre sua formação e redes de sociabilidade, principalmente após seu casamento com Clotilde da França, filha de Ângelo Thomaz do Amaral, nos indicam que o autor era proveniente de um grupo social economicamente privilegiado e que fora impulsionado pelo capital econômico e político de seu sogro. Após um levantamento geral de sua obra nos jornais e no palco, destaco algumas imagens recorrentes em seus escritos a respeito de elementos que estavam na pauta das discussões naquele contexto político-social, a saber: a mulher, o escravo, o progresso, o brasileiro. Produzindo em um período em que o mundo das letras ganhava importância política, percebemos que, além de numericamente vastos, seus folhetins e comédias receberam uma importante divulgação e uma razoável recepção em sua época, tendo vigorado nos principais jornais e teatros da Corte. Isso indica que as imagens divulgadas pelo autor através de sua obra encontravam eco em público leitor, espectador e, inclusive entre seus pares letrados. / The current dissertation realizes a survey and an analysis of Joaquim José da França Junior’s literate output. He had been a Brazilian playwright, painter, journalist, who lived between 1838 and 1890 and started writing from 1860 on. The main purpose of this survey is to recover his professional trajectory, analyzing the different moments of his literate output and the place that this output had taken up in Rio de Janeiro during the three last decades of the 19th century. Pieces of information about his education, vocational training and social networking, mainly after his marriage with Clotilde da França, who was Angelo Tomas do Amaral’s daughter, shows that the author belonged to a privileged social class and was motivated by his father-in-law’s money and political contacts. After a general survey of his work on newspapers and stages, I point out some relevant aspects in his work concerning the most important social and political subjects of that time: women, slaves, progress, and Brazilian people. Producing in a period that the world of Arts have gained political importance and strength, we realize that besides his large output, his work received an important disclosure and a reasonable reception by that time, being shown at the principal newspapers and theaters of the Court. This indicates that the images released by the author in his works, found acceptance among his readers, members of the audience, including among his literate pair workers.

Illiteracy continues to be a major problem in developing countries. Botswana as an emerging economy with consumers of different literacy levels has no escape for this problem. This study puts the spotlight on consumer illiteracy in Botswana focusing specificallyon purchasing behaviour of functionally illiterate consumers; the problems encountered in the market place and coping strategies used when purchasing food. To elicit relevant information a quantitative research design and survey techniques using a structured questionnaire was used to gather information. Potential respondents were conveniently sampled in Gaborone and surrounding areas in Botswana (N=200) and women aged between 25 and 65 years formed the sample group. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. From the discussion and the interpretation of the results of the sample of the survey it became clear that certain elements of retailers‟ marketing mix product, price, place, promotion and processes were the most important factors that influenced younger women‟s‟food purchases. Salespeople are apparently of lesser importance to influence consumers. The results indicated that functionally illiterate consumers mainly purchased food products from supermarkets and informal traders but also patronised other retail outlets occasionally. The study further revealed that consumers are vulnerable in the market place as they encountered problems during market place navigation, specifically in terms of too much information; difficulties in computing prices reduced by percentages; crowded places, and advertisements tempting them to buy. These problems seemed to negate the use of coping strategies. The study has contributed to the limited literature on the food purchasing behaviour of functionally illiterate consumers. Retailers will gain insight on how to deal with functionally illiterate consumers in the market place and find ways of making the market place more consumer friendly. / Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / gm2014 / Consumer Science / unrestricted

Health is one of the most important issues in the lives of human beings and has a direct effect on the well-being of a country’s citizens and its economy. Researchers emphasise the role of communication in maintaining health and well-being, and in preventingdisease by changing behaviour. In a multilingual society such as South Africa, health communication documents are often translated for distribution to different language groups. However, the translation of health-related communication documents, specifically for use by low-literate target audiences, poses many challenges, especially in cases where there is a considerable distance between the source text and the target cultures. Translators who work in the field of health communication require specific strategies that will enable them to effectively transfer health-related information that is steeped in cultural meaning while taking into consideration aspects such as stigma and taboo. This study explores the challenges faced during the translation from English into isiZulu of a photonovel called An ounce of prevention, a health document about cervical cancer originally developed for a Latin American audience. This text relies heavily on cultural elements to convey messages. Through an overview of Christiane Nord’s model of Functionality +Loyalty (2005), as well as Larkey and Hecht’s (2010) model of Effects of Narratives as Culture-Centric Health Promotion, a set of analytic heuristics was distilled and applied as a tool to systematically identify cultural elements in the photonovel to ensure that a translation into isiZulu would be culturally acceptable to a Zulu target audience. The purpose of analytic heuristics is to assist translators’ understanding of the communicative situation in which the source text was produced. Once they have been equipped with necessary knowledge of the communication situation and have a sound understanding of the photonovel as a text, translators should be able to systematically identify culture-specific elements in the source text. Thereafter they can establish the cultural distance between the source text culture and the target text communication situation to ensure that all narrative characteristics from both the personal and socio-cultural levels of the narrative inform the concepts of transportation, identification and social profiling. Translators are thus equipped to make informed decisions regarding the translation of specific challenges identified in the source text that would make the target text culturally unacceptable to the target culture. Once the heuristics have been applied to excerpts from the photonovel that pose intercultural challenges, it is concluded that cultural elements and linguistic norms have been successfully identified in the source text and have been appropriately re-contextualised in the target text to ensure that the original message is conveyed. It is assumed that the analytic heuristics will also be useful in ensuring the effective translation of other culture-centric texts without changing the original message. / Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / African Languages / MA / Unrestricted

I conducted a narrative inquiry with five ninth grade boys in my English class that I identified as displaying multiple literacies. The classes I taught the boys in were two sections of honors ninth grade English. The boys came from a variety of backgrounds and lived in various neighborhoods in the approximately 20,0000-member community where we all live. The site of this research was the junior high school in Utah where the boys attend school and I had been employed for six years. After the research was collected, I conducted several negotiation sessions with the boys and their parents at the school, as well as in their homes. These negotiations facilitated a methodological concept I came to call distillation, which is an interim step for determining which narratives in an inquiry are emblematic. My research centered on how these boys storied their literate identities. A review of literature revealed several lenses for conceptualizing the stories of these boys. An analysis of the stories I collected revealed that the boys' stories moved beyond current conceptions of either identity or literacy alone and instead offered a way of looking at literate identity as simultaneously being and doing literacy. In light of this definition, the boys' stories revealed plotlines that together described literate identity as a form of capital. The question of how the boys story themselves is ultimately answered using a meta-narrative about a boon, of gift, that emerges from mythic/archetypal literary criticism. Distribution of a desirable boon that will help society is the goal of a hero story. The boys narrate the ways in which they distribute literacy as a boon. The implications for this research include a need to examine classroom space in order to facilitate the deployment of literate identity capital, as well as space for living out the meta-narratives that these boys are composing.

The purpose of this study was to examine students' representations of their literate identities in what Gee (2008) calls Discourse that developed among 105 high school students— 103 10th-grade and two 11th-grade students—using a wiki for class work, collaboration, and social interaction. The theoretical frame for the present study was drawn from of four bodies of literature. Through a reciprocal process of positioning self and others (van Langenhove & Harré, 1999), individuals come to form and display their literate identity (Heath, 1991) within a community of practice (Wenger, 1998). Their interactions reflect norms, values, and accepted ways of being within the Discourses to which they belong (Gee, 2008). Data analysis procedures employed in this study were similar to those commonly associated with qualitative data analysis. I used a recursive process of coding and searching for patterns and themes to analyze students' writing on the class wiki. Analysis of the wiki posts revealed that students employed 18 written devices within the Discourse of the wiki. In addition, within the online Discourse that emerged on the wiki, students occupied nine positions in relation to the others in the community. Findings of this study suggest that students developed a community of practice where norms for participation in the Discourse of the wiki were constructed by its members. Students represented their academic and social literate identities online through the combination of devices they used and the positions they enacted in the Discourse of the wiki.

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<p>With the general engineering practices being followed for the development of scientific software, scientists are seemingly able to simulate real world problems successfully and generate accurate numerical results. However, scientific software is rarely presented in such a way that an external reviewer would feel comfortable in certifying that the software is fit for its intended use. The documentation of the software development - Requirements, Design and Implementation, is not being given the importance it deserves. Often, the requirements are improperly and insufficiently recorded, which make the design decisions difficult. Similarly, incomplete documentation of design decisions and numerical algorithms make the implementation difficult. Lack of traceability between the requirements, design and the code leads to problems with building confidence in the results.</p> <p>To study the problems faced during certification, a case study was performed on a legacy software used by a nuclear power generating company in the 1980's for safety analysis in a nuclear reactor. Unlike many other scientific codes of that time, the nuclear power generating company included a full theory manual with their code. Although the theory manual was very helpful, the documentation and development approach still needed significant updating. During the case study, 27 issues were found with the documentation of the theory manual, 2 opportunities to update the design and 6 programming style issues were found in the original FORTRAN code. This shows room for improvement in the documentation techniques in the development of scientific software based on a physical model.</p> <p>This thesis provides a solution to the certification problem, by introducing software engineering methodologies in the documentation of the scientific software. This work proposes a new template for the Software Requirements Specification (SRS) to clearly and sufficiently state the functional and the non-functional requirements, while satisfying the desired qualities for a good SRS. Furthermore, the proposed template acts as a checklist and helps in systematically and adequately developing the requirements document. For developing the design and implementation, this thesis introduces Literate Programming (LP) as an alternative to traditional structured programming. Literate Programming documents the numerical algorithms, logic behind the development and the code together in the same document, the Literate Programmer's Manual (LPM). The LPM is developed in connection with the SRS. The explicit traceability between the theory, numerical algorithms and implementation (code), simplifies the process of verification and the associated certification.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

Documentation is an essential activity in software development, for source code as well as modelling artefacts. Typically, documentation is created and maintained manually which leads to inconsistencies as documented artefacts like source code or models evolve during development. Existing approaches like literate/elucidative programming or literate modelling address these problems by deriving documentation from software development artefacts or vice versa. However, these approaches restrict themselves to a certain kind of artefact and to a certain phase of the software development life-cycle. In this paper, we propose elucidative development as a generalisation of these approaches supporting heterogeneous kinds of artefacts as well as the analysis, design and implementation phases of the software development life-cycle. Elucidative development allows for linking source code and model artefacts into documentation and thus, maintains and updates their presentation semi-automatically. We present DEFT as an integrated development environment for elucidative development. We show, how DEFT can be applied to language specifications like the UML specification and help to avoid inconsistencies caused by maintenance and evolution of such a specification.

Documentation is an essential activity in software development, for source code as well as modelling artefacts. Typically, documentation is created and maintained manually which leads to inconsistencies as documented artefacts like source code or models evolve during development. Existing approaches like literate/elucidative programming or literate modelling address these problems by deriving documentation from software development artefacts or vice versa. However, these approaches restrict themselves to a certain kind of artefact and to a certain phase of the software development life-cycle. In this paper, we propose elucidative development as a generalisation of these approaches supporting heterogeneous kinds of artefacts as well as the analysis, design and implementation phases of the software development life-cycle. Elucidative development allows for linking source code and model artefacts into documentation and thus, maintains and updates their presentation semi-automatically. We present DEFT as an integrated development environment for elucidative development. We show, how DEFT can be applied to language specifications like the UML specification and help to avoid inconsistencies caused by maintenance and evolution of such a specification.