Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-12-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:42:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 stadler_rcl_dr_assis.pdf: 515463 bytes, checksum: 36832cd7bdd9d4cdd2139337b3b3f28d (MD5) / Esta pesquisa objetivou investigar o processo de produção, leitura e compreensão do texto Sala-de-aula. Para sua efetivação, acompanhamos, durante um ano letivo, uma turma de alunos de 2ª série do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica (CEFET-PR). Esse acompanhamento nos permitiu coletar dados para a organização do material documentário - relato de narrativas de vida dos participantes, registro das observações realizadas em sala de aula, diário de campo do pesquisador - o qual desencadeou o processo de reflexão. Desenvolvemos nossa reflexão tendo como suporte a teoria lingüística de Mikhail Bakhtin e as opções metodológicas - Estudo de caso, Paradigma indiciário e Pesquisa narrativa. Esse suporte teórico nos possibilitou reconhecer o Sala-de-aula como um texto polifônico, ou seja, no qual vozes se encontram, entrecruzam-se, chocam-se, demonstrando a relevância da interação dialógica que ocorre em cada aula. Para compreender o texto Sala-de-aula foi necessário ouvir estórias singulares, por serem elas reveladoras das ações atuais. A sala de aula é local de desvelamento de estórias, nele está presente o ser humano que é, por sua natureza social e histórica, ser narrativo. Sendo assim, todas as ações humanas são resultados de experiências partilhadas em nossos atos dialógicos. Essas ações, essas experiências não se efetivam sem a presença da linguagem. Ela esteve ali, a cada encontro, a cada contato humano, gesto ou olhar. Sendo o texto Sala-de-aula resultado de atos dialógicos, ou seja, atos entremeados de estórias, está recheado de linguagem, diríamos que é a linguagem a se materializar nessa produção. Esses atos dialógicos, todavia, representam apenas uma fração de uma corrente comunicativa, como se fora um elo, uma extensão de atos dialógicos anteriores... / This research aimed at investigating the creation process, reading and comprehension of the text Sala de Aula (Classroom). To accomplish this objective, a class of junior high school students ( 2 grade) at the Federal Center of Technological Education (CEFET-PR) was observed during one academic year. Data to organize documentary material was collected from : life accounts of the participants, records of the notes taken in the classroom and evidences obtained during fieldwork. The linguistic theory developed by Mikhail Bakhtin provided the theoretical underpinnings upon which this research was carried out as well as the following methodological procedures: case study, evidential paradigm and narrative research. Such theory enabled us to see the text Sala de aula as polyphonic, that is, a text where different voices meet, intersect, clash, demonstrating thus how important and relevant interaction between students in each class is. A deep insight into the text in question was obtained by hearing singular stories that shed a great deal of light upon students' current attitudes. It is in human's nature, from a social and historical point of view, to be given to narrating stories which explains the fact that the classroom is the place where stories are told. Therefore, all human actions are the result of experiences shared in our interactions by means of language that makes itself present in each encounter, contact, action and look. The fact that the text Sala de aula is the product of interactions interspersed with stories entitles us to say that language materializes in this creative process. Such interactions, however, reveal only a small fraction of a communicative process, as if it were a link, an extension of past interactions and, consequently ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Orientador: Célia Maria Carcagnolo Gil / Banca: Loredana Límoli / Banca: Luiz Alberto Pilatti / Banca: Diva Lea Batista da Silva / Banca: Vilma Fernandes Neves / Resumo: Esta pesquisa objetivou investigar o processo de produção, leitura e compreensão do texto Sala-de-aula. Para sua efetivação, acompanhamos, durante um ano letivo, uma turma de alunos de 2ª série do Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica (CEFET-PR). Esse acompanhamento nos permitiu coletar dados para a organização do material documentário - relato de narrativas de vida dos participantes, registro das observações realizadas em sala de aula, diário de campo do pesquisador - o qual desencadeou o processo de reflexão. Desenvolvemos nossa reflexão tendo como suporte a teoria lingüística de Mikhail Bakhtin e as opções metodológicas - Estudo de caso, Paradigma indiciário e Pesquisa narrativa. Esse suporte teórico nos possibilitou reconhecer o Sala-de-aula como um texto polifônico, ou seja, no qual vozes se encontram, entrecruzam-se, chocam-se, demonstrando a relevância da interação dialógica que ocorre em cada aula. Para compreender o texto Sala-de-aula foi necessário ouvir estórias singulares, por serem elas reveladoras das ações atuais. A sala de aula é local de desvelamento de estórias, nele está presente o ser humano que é, por sua natureza social e histórica, ser narrativo. Sendo assim, todas as ações humanas são resultados de experiências partilhadas em nossos atos dialógicos. Essas ações, essas experiências não se efetivam sem a presença da linguagem. Ela esteve ali, a cada encontro, a cada contato humano, gesto ou olhar. Sendo o texto Sala-de-aula resultado de atos dialógicos, ou seja, atos entremeados de estórias, está recheado de linguagem, diríamos que é a linguagem a se materializar nessa produção. Esses atos dialógicos, todavia, representam apenas uma fração de uma corrente comunicativa, como se fora um elo, uma extensão de atos dialógicos anteriores ...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research aimed at investigating the creation process, reading and comprehension of the text "Sala de Aula" (Classroom). To accomplish this objective, a class of junior high school students ( 2 grade) at the Federal Center of Technological Education (CEFET-PR) was observed during one academic year. Data to organize documentary material was collected from : life accounts of the participants, records of the notes taken in the classroom and evidences obtained during fieldwork. The linguistic theory developed by Mikhail Bakhtin provided the theoretical underpinnings upon which this research was carried out as well as the following methodological procedures: case study, evidential paradigm and narrative research. Such theory enabled us to see the text "Sala de aula" as "polyphonic", that is, a text where different voices meet, intersect, clash, demonstrating thus how important and relevant interaction between students in each class is. A deep insight into the text in question was obtained by hearing singular stories that shed a great deal of light upon students' current attitudes. It is in human's nature, from a social and historical point of view, to be given to narrating stories which explains the fact that the classroom is the place where stories are told. Therefore, all human actions are the result of experiences shared in our interactions by means of language that makes itself present in each encounter, contact, action and look. The fact that the text " Sala de aula" is the product of interactions interspersed with stories entitles us to say that language materializes in this creative process. Such interactions, however, reveal only a small fraction of a communicative process, as if it were a link, an extension of past interactions and, consequently ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor

Speaking a foreign language is a major part of communicating in that language. Since LGY 69, spoken English has received the same attention in teaching as the writing of English; and in the national tests today spoken English is considered 1/5 of the test grade.  However, students in many cases find it more difficult to speak English than to write it and some teachers still focus more on writing and grammar than on speaking. In this essay, I am trying to show how a group of fairly fluent students tackle the oral part of their national test and what strategies they use to overcome linguistic difficulties. In order to do so I have filmed five groups and a total number of 17 students when they do the oral part of their national tests in English in grade nine and also have the students fill out a questionnaire about the experience. The tests took place in March and April 2010. This essay shows that the most frequently used strategy is pauses, unfilled and filled, but that for other strategies the individual differences are great. It also shows that group dynamics play an important role when doing the test and students who are not able to do the test with people they normally talk to do worse in the test setting and that the performance of both boys and girls suffer when being put in mixed groups.

The dissertation investigates oral communication from a language development perspective. The overall aim is to study the oral communication that is part of the learning process for Swedish as a subject and for vocational courses in the upper secondary schools. The focus is specifically on learning that incorporates reasoning and prepared speech. The method used is derived from ethnography and Conversation Analysis. The material consists of fieldnotes, video and audio recordings of lessons from two different classes. The dissertation is theoretically linked to “New Literacy Studies”; the oral prac¬tices and oral cultures involved in the instruction of Swedish are described and viewed as part of school literacy. The concept ‘elaborated topic’ is used to analyse the extent to which students and teachers develop reasoning. The results show that instruction in vocational training programmes can provide students with different conditions for oral language development. Students in the nursing programme took part in more varied communication than students in the technically/practically-oriented programme. The different oral cultures in the two classes could be described in terms of patterns for reasoning and prepared speech, knowledge ideology and power relations. The oral cultures of the classes investigated are reflected in the way they performed in the national test. The students’ ability to develop a sufficiently extensive line of reasoning for the test’s prepared speech did not correspond to how well they developed each topic of discus¬sion. The dissertation emphasises the importance of dialogically organised instruction with students in every upper secondary programme being encour¬aged in their reasoning and prepared speech. It highlights language and communication in and of itself as important content in the instruction of Swedish. Finally, it argues that each subject is responsible for contributing to the language development of students.

This report is a summary and a discussion of a research project on bilingualism in Tornedalen. Within the project "Education in sparsely populated areas", financed by the National Board of Education, a number of studies were carried out aiming at giving a description of the present linguistic situation (Swedish/Finnish) of the pupils in the comprehensive school. Another aim was to see if there was any correlation between school achievement and the linguistic abilities of the pupils (Swedish-Finnish) . In this connection the intention was also to develop methods of measurement and to construct tests. The basis of the work was a model originally developed by Spolsky (1974) and had in a broad sense a "sociology of language" approach. The population consisted of all the 354 pupils in grade 4 in the district of Haparanda, Övertorneå and Paj ala. The gathering of data in which combination of different methods such as interviews, observations and testings were used, took place at the turn of the year 1975/76. The results have been published in six reports (nr 78-83) in the series of reports of the Department of Education, Pedagogiska rapporter, Umeå (in Swedish). In this summary the main results are accounted for concerning the pupil's use of language and linguistic knowledge as well as results and marks. The results show that the use of the Finnish language is almost restricted to the home environment. As for the knowledge of Finnish it can be noted that about 40 per cent have active abilities and the rest of the pupils are purely Swedish speaking. The difference between the mentioned groups as regards the other measurements of achievement used were small or insignificant especially if the social background of the pupils was taken into consideration. The main conclusion was that the Finnish language in Tornedalen is decreasing and that in one or two generations probably all the area will be Swedish speaking. The consequences of this are discussed,and the importance of school and education is also dealt with. Suggestions for further research are given such as longitudinal and iterated cross-sectional studies and comparative studies in other bilingual areas. Studies about attitudes to the languages in Tornedalen are suggested as well as intensified work on the developing of methods in bilingual research. Finnally further investigations on the covariation between different factors and school achievement are recommended. / digitalisering@umu

ABSTRACT THE EFFECT OF ASKING REFERENTIAL QUESTIONS ON THE PARTICIPATION AND ORAL PRODUCTION OF LOWER LEVEL LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN READING CLASSES &Ouml / zcan, Seda MA, Program in English Language Teaching Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Nurdan G&uuml / rb&uuml / z May, 2010, 84 pages This study aims at investigating the effect of asking referential questions on the oral participation and production of lower level language learners in reading classes. The main purpose of the study is to inquire whether the reticence of lower level language learners to participate in lessons due to their poor language ability could be overcome by asking questions that require their opinions and comments, rather than solely answering questions to display their comprehension. For this purpose an action research was conducted in a lower level preparatory class at Izmir University of Economics over a 4-week period. This action research included a preliminary investigation stage to discover the reasons for low level of participation in these classes and to come up with a hypothesis to solve the problem, and 3 reading lessons to test the hypothesis. During those 3 lessons students were exposed to both display and referential questions and the number of students and responses were calculated for both question types to collect quantitative data. In addition, the mean lengths (in words) of students&rsquo / responses to display and referential questions were calculated to find out the differences of students&rsquo / responses in terms of length between display and referential questions. The analysis of quantitative data indicates that lower level language learners participate more when asked a referential question. Additionally, referential v questions engender longer responses compared to the responses given to the display questions.

Os estudos nas áreas da neuropsicologia e da afasiologia sempre demonstraram uma preocupação em analisar o processamento da linguagem de afásicos. Porém, ainda existe a necessidade de se analisar a produção oral desses indivíduos, com o objetivo de melhor descrever os distúrbios apresentados pelos mesmos com vistas a contribuir com os possíveis tratamentos dedicados a essas pessoas. Por essa razão, esta dissertação investigou a dificuldade de acesso lexical, tanto na produção de fala espontânea, através de uma Entrevista de Memória Autobiográfica, como na fala semi espontânea, através da Tarefa do Roubo dos Biscoitos, em dois indivíduos afásicos, caracterizando dois fenômenos linguísticos decorrentes da afasia – anomia e parafasia – bem como elencando os tipos de estratégias comunicativas empregadas por esses indivíduos com vistas a superar dificuldades linguísticas no momento da comunicação. Os resultados encontrados mostram que ambos os indivíduos apresentaram casos de anomia, principalmente relacionados aos substantivos concretos, à subcategoria dos nomes próprios e aos numerais. Foi possível verificar também que, quando apresentavam casos de anomia, os dois participantes utilizaram-se com frequência de estratégias comunicativas. No que tange aos casos de parafasia, foi possível observar que na produção oral de ambos os participantes, os casos de parafasia morfêmica relacionados aos verbos e às palavras funcionais foram mais frequentes, se comparados com os outros tipos de parafasia. Nos casos de parafasia morfêmica dos verbos, observou-se uma dificuldade de referência de tempo ao passado, ao passo que, em relação às palavras funcionais, houve uma dificuldade de flexão de gênero. / A large number of studies in Neuropsychology and Aphasiology have analyzed language processing of individuals with aphasia. However, there is still the necessity of analyzing the oral production, with the purpose of improving the description of language disorders common to these aphasic patients and analyzing appropriate treatment for these individuals. Within this context, the present study aimed to investigate lexical access in two aphasic patients in spontaneous versus semi-spontaneous speech production through two distinct tasks: an Autobiographical Memory Interview as well as The Cookie Theft Picture Description Task with the focus on the linguistic phenomena that result of aphasia - anomia and paraphasia. In addition to that, we also looked at the types of communication strategies employed by these aphasic individuals in order to overcome language difficulties when communicating. The results show that both subjects presented cases of anomia, mainly related to concrete nouns, the subcategory of proper names and numerals. It was also verified that, when presenting anomia, the two participants used communication clues in order to overcome their language impairments. With regard to the cases of paraphasia, it was also observed that, in the oral production of both participants, cases of morphemic paraphasia related to verbs and function words were more frequent when compared with other types of paraphasia. When the cases of morphemic paraphasia were related to verbs, there was a difficulty associated with time reference to the past, whereas in relation to functional words there was a difficulty of bending genre.

Os estudos nas áreas da neuropsicologia e da afasiologia sempre demonstraram uma preocupação em analisar o processamento da linguagem de afásicos. Porém, ainda existe a necessidade de se analisar a produção oral desses indivíduos, com o objetivo de melhor descrever os distúrbios apresentados pelos mesmos com vistas a contribuir com os possíveis tratamentos dedicados a essas pessoas. Por essa razão, esta dissertação investigou a dificuldade de acesso lexical, tanto na produção de fala espontânea, através de uma Entrevista de Memória Autobiográfica, como na fala semi espontânea, através da Tarefa do Roubo dos Biscoitos, em dois indivíduos afásicos, caracterizando dois fenômenos linguísticos decorrentes da afasia – anomia e parafasia – bem como elencando os tipos de estratégias comunicativas empregadas por esses indivíduos com vistas a superar dificuldades linguísticas no momento da comunicação. Os resultados encontrados mostram que ambos os indivíduos apresentaram casos de anomia, principalmente relacionados aos substantivos concretos, à subcategoria dos nomes próprios e aos numerais. Foi possível verificar também que, quando apresentavam casos de anomia, os dois participantes utilizaram-se com frequência de estratégias comunicativas. No que tange aos casos de parafasia, foi possível observar que na produção oral de ambos os participantes, os casos de parafasia morfêmica relacionados aos verbos e às palavras funcionais foram mais frequentes, se comparados com os outros tipos de parafasia. Nos casos de parafasia morfêmica dos verbos, observou-se uma dificuldade de referência de tempo ao passado, ao passo que, em relação às palavras funcionais, houve uma dificuldade de flexão de gênero. / A large number of studies in Neuropsychology and Aphasiology have analyzed language processing of individuals with aphasia. However, there is still the necessity of analyzing the oral production, with the purpose of improving the description of language disorders common to these aphasic patients and analyzing appropriate treatment for these individuals. Within this context, the present study aimed to investigate lexical access in two aphasic patients in spontaneous versus semi-spontaneous speech production through two distinct tasks: an Autobiographical Memory Interview as well as The Cookie Theft Picture Description Task with the focus on the linguistic phenomena that result of aphasia - anomia and paraphasia. In addition to that, we also looked at the types of communication strategies employed by these aphasic individuals in order to overcome language difficulties when communicating. The results show that both subjects presented cases of anomia, mainly related to concrete nouns, the subcategory of proper names and numerals. It was also verified that, when presenting anomia, the two participants used communication clues in order to overcome their language impairments. With regard to the cases of paraphasia, it was also observed that, in the oral production of both participants, cases of morphemic paraphasia related to verbs and function words were more frequent when compared with other types of paraphasia. When the cases of morphemic paraphasia were related to verbs, there was a difficulty associated with time reference to the past, whereas in relation to functional words there was a difficulty of bending genre.

nÃo hà / Esta dissertaÃÃo objetiva avaliar as atividades de produÃÃo oral presentes nas disciplinas online de compreensÃo e produÃÃo oral da Licenciatura a distÃncia de Letras InglÃs da Universidade Federal do CearÃ, buscando identificar se 1) princÃpios da abordagem comunicativa, 2) princÃpios do ensino de lÃnguas baseado em tarefas e 3) princÃpios do aquisiÃÃo/ instruÃÃo de L2 fazem parte do embasamento didÃtico-pedagÃgico das atividades de produÃÃo oral destas disciplinas, e portanto podem ter o potencial de desenvolver a habilidade de produÃÃo oral dos professores em formaÃÃo. Esta pesquisa, que està inserida na linha de LinguÃstica Aplicada, caracteriza-se como exploratÃria e descritiva e fundamenta-se nas reflexÃes acerca do processo de ensino-aprendizagem e aquisiÃÃo de segunda lÃngua principalmente de Brown (2000,2001) e Ellis (2003, 2005). Para realizarmos a pesquisa, elaboramos um instrumento de avaliaÃÃo (checklist), que foi utilizado para a avaliaÃÃo dos princÃpios presentes nas atividades online. Os resultados mostraram que as atividades, no geral, tÃm caracterÃsticas significativas de todos os princÃpios que nos propusemos a observar, com destaque dos princÃpios do Ensino Baseado em Tarefas (ELLIS, 2003), podendo ter, portanto, o potencial de desenvolver a habilidade de produÃÃo oral dos professores em formaÃÃo. No entanto, observamos que a maioria das atividades de produÃÃo oral propostas nas disciplinas analisadas sÃo, em sua maioria, controladas ou semicontroladas, e que a quantidade de atividades de produÃÃo oral à inferior se comparada Ãs outras atividades propostas nas disciplinas. Como conclusÃo, verificou-se que hà a necessidade de que mais atividades de produÃÃo oral espontÃnea sejam propostas, em disciplinas de cursos a distÃncia, principalmente naquelas que visam o desenvolvimento desta habilidade, uma vez que, a fala à um instrumento imprescindÃvel e fundamental para prÃtica dos professores de lÃnguas. / This thesis aims at evaluating oral activities presented in online oral comprehension and production courses from the Universidade Federal do CearÃâs English Letters Course, trying to identify whether 1) Communicative Approach Principles, 2) Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching Principles and 2) L2 Acquisition/Instruction Principles are part of the pedagogical practices of these activities and, therefore, are able to develop the oral production skill in its prospective teachers of English. This research, which is inserted in the field of Applied Linguistics, characterized as exploratory and descriptive, was based mainly on reflections by Brown (2000, 2001) and Ellis (2003,2005). In order to do this research, we elaborated a checklist to evaluate the oral activities presented in two courses: LING 3A: CompreensÃo e produÃÃo Oral and LING 4A: CompreensÃo e ProduÃÃo Oral. The results has shown that the general characteristics of Communicative Aproach, L2 Acquisition/Instruction and Task Based Language Teaching and Learning principles are presented in the activities, nevetherless, the last one seems to be the stronger principle. Since then, these activities may have the potential to develop the oral production skills on English Letterâs Courseâs prospective teachers of English. However, we have identified the activities proposed in both analyzed courses are mainly controlled or semicontrolled, and do not provide many opportunities for spontaneous speech. They are also in lower rate when compared to other types of activities presented in the courses. In conclusion, we have verified that there is a need of more spontaneous oral activities in distance education courses, specially in those which aims at developing oral skills, since speech is a crutial tool in second language teachersâ pedagogy.

Os estudos nas áreas da neuropsicologia e da afasiologia sempre demonstraram uma preocupação em analisar o processamento da linguagem de afásicos. Porém, ainda existe a necessidade de se analisar a produção oral desses indivíduos, com o objetivo de melhor descrever os distúrbios apresentados pelos mesmos com vistas a contribuir com os possíveis tratamentos dedicados a essas pessoas. Por essa razão, esta dissertação investigou a dificuldade de acesso lexical, tanto na produção de fala espontânea, através de uma Entrevista de Memória Autobiográfica, como na fala semi espontânea, através da Tarefa do Roubo dos Biscoitos, em dois indivíduos afásicos, caracterizando dois fenômenos linguísticos decorrentes da afasia – anomia e parafasia – bem como elencando os tipos de estratégias comunicativas empregadas por esses indivíduos com vistas a superar dificuldades linguísticas no momento da comunicação. Os resultados encontrados mostram que ambos os indivíduos apresentaram casos de anomia, principalmente relacionados aos substantivos concretos, à subcategoria dos nomes próprios e aos numerais. Foi possível verificar também que, quando apresentavam casos de anomia, os dois participantes utilizaram-se com frequência de estratégias comunicativas. No que tange aos casos de parafasia, foi possível observar que na produção oral de ambos os participantes, os casos de parafasia morfêmica relacionados aos verbos e às palavras funcionais foram mais frequentes, se comparados com os outros tipos de parafasia. Nos casos de parafasia morfêmica dos verbos, observou-se uma dificuldade de referência de tempo ao passado, ao passo que, em relação às palavras funcionais, houve uma dificuldade de flexão de gênero. / A large number of studies in Neuropsychology and Aphasiology have analyzed language processing of individuals with aphasia. However, there is still the necessity of analyzing the oral production, with the purpose of improving the description of language disorders common to these aphasic patients and analyzing appropriate treatment for these individuals. Within this context, the present study aimed to investigate lexical access in two aphasic patients in spontaneous versus semi-spontaneous speech production through two distinct tasks: an Autobiographical Memory Interview as well as The Cookie Theft Picture Description Task with the focus on the linguistic phenomena that result of aphasia - anomia and paraphasia. In addition to that, we also looked at the types of communication strategies employed by these aphasic individuals in order to overcome language difficulties when communicating. The results show that both subjects presented cases of anomia, mainly related to concrete nouns, the subcategory of proper names and numerals. It was also verified that, when presenting anomia, the two participants used communication clues in order to overcome their language impairments. With regard to the cases of paraphasia, it was also observed that, in the oral production of both participants, cases of morphemic paraphasia related to verbs and function words were more frequent when compared with other types of paraphasia. When the cases of morphemic paraphasia were related to verbs, there was a difficulty associated with time reference to the past, whereas in relation to functional words there was a difficulty of bending genre.