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Cross-dialectal acceptance of a written standard (CAWS) is essential for that standard to be used by speakers of divergent dialects of a language. Earlier works have focused on the influence of linguistic differences on comprehension of the standard, but little attention has been given the influence of socio-cultural and programmatic factors on acceptance of a standard. Case studies of the Lelemi and Likpakpaanl language development programmes provide information through which the socio-cultural and programmatic factors which influence CAWS can be identified. Due to the complex nature of the topic, various indicators are used to measure levels of acceptance of the written standard by speakers of each dialect. Socio-cultural factors which influence CAWS relate either to the language community's degree of interdialectal communication or to their perception of being a unified people. These factors include social structure, governance, cultural and religious activities, and patterns of marriage, commerce, transportation and migration. The existence of extensive social networks and the role of opinion leaders were also influential Activities of the two language development programmes which positively influenced CAWS included those which informed and involved speakers of all dialects of the language. These activities built on the existing levels of unity and inter-dialectal communication by using existing social networks. The Lelemi programme involved speakers of all dialects more uniformly than did the Likpakpaanl programme. However, both programmes informed and involved speakers of all dialects to some extent. The dialect communities of each language did not equally accept the written standards. Acceptance appeared to correlate more strongly with programmatic factors than with sociocultural or linguistic factors. This thesis provides a model for language teams to follow in 1) identifying socio-cultural factors which have the potential to influence CAWS; 2) applying knowledge about the socio-cultural situation to programme planning; and, 3) assessing levels of acceptance by speakers of each dialect. / Linguistics / D. Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

Exploring the teaching of Grade 1 – 3 English spelling using the Sound Reading System: A case of a Namibian primary school Spelling is crucial for literacy development in children and therefore needs to be taught effectively during the primary grades. A plethora of studies on spelling instruction have been carried out to shed light on the importance of applying scientifically based methods. This study investigated the implementation of the Sound Reading System (SRS) for teaching spelling in Grades 1, 2 and 3 in Namibia – a country where English is mostly acquired as a taught subject. A qualitative design was used to examine the application of the SRS in whole-class instruction in the Erongo region of Namibia. Using observations, interviews and document analysis, data was obtained from one school where the SRS was used to teach spelling. Three teachers were observed and subsequently interviewed on the teaching of English spelling. The findings revealed that, after using the SRS, teachers felt their own alphabetic knowledge had improved and their approach to teaching spelling had changed, leading to an awareness of what meaningful spelling activities entail. They felt that the methodology had provided a systematic approach to their teaching. The teachers were convinced that there is a link between spelling and reading and the methodology provided an opportunity to teach these skills simultaneously. In terms of the SRS, an integrated approach is applied whereby the target sound becomes the focal point of language development to provide an opportunity for skill transfer. However, the teachers found it challenging to slot in all the activities in a timetable that does not cater specifically for spelling. Another challenge perceived by the teachers was the effective teaching of sight words. This study recommends teamwork between teachers and parents to ensure that all SRS activities are completed successfully at home. Furthermore, it emphasises the importance of applying scientific methods in classroom practice. It further suggests that teaching the full range of spellings in the SRS be continued in Grades 4 and 5 to reinforce a deeper understanding of English orthography. Lastly, it is suggested that higher institutions link teacher training to curricular outcomes. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / M. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

Cross-dialectal acceptance of a written standard (CAWS) is essential for that standard to be used by speakers of divergent dialects of a language. Earlier works have focused on the influence of linguistic differences on comprehension of the standard, but little attention has been given the influence of socio-cultural and programmatic factors on acceptance of a standard. Case studies of the Lelemi and Likpakpaanl language development programmes provide information through which the socio-cultural and programmatic factors which influence CAWS can be identified. Due to the complex nature of the topic, various indicators are used to measure levels of acceptance of the written standard by speakers of each dialect. Socio-cultural factors which influence CAWS relate either to the language community's degree of interdialectal communication or to their perception of being a unified people. These factors include social structure, governance, cultural and religious activities, and patterns of marriage, commerce, transportation and migration. The existence of extensive social networks and the role of opinion leaders were also influential Activities of the two language development programmes which positively influenced CAWS included those which informed and involved speakers of all dialects of the language. These activities built on the existing levels of unity and inter-dialectal communication by using existing social networks. The Lelemi programme involved speakers of all dialects more uniformly than did the Likpakpaanl programme. However, both programmes informed and involved speakers of all dialects to some extent. The dialect communities of each language did not equally accept the written standards. Acceptance appeared to correlate more strongly with programmatic factors than with sociocultural or linguistic factors. This thesis provides a model for language teams to follow in 1) identifying socio-cultural factors which have the potential to influence CAWS; 2) applying knowledge about the socio-cultural situation to programme planning; and, 3) assessing levels of acceptance by speakers of each dialect. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

The thesis deals with the critical points of teaching Czech language at the elementary school. The aim of the work was to identify the citical points of teaching Czech language to the sixth grade of the elementary level. The identification of the critical points was done through a qualitative analysis of the discussions lead with teachers of Czech language. The theoretical part of the work characterizes the Czech language curriculum in the sixth grade and its didactic apporoach in commonly used textbooks. Conceptions, such as the cricital point and the mistake are defined. The practical part of the work contains the analysis and the interpretation of the discussions carried out with the teachers. The program Altas.ti was used for the evaluation of the obtained data. The critical points of Czech language in the sixth grade of the elementary school were found to be the phenomena in the realm of syntax, morphology, and spelling. In the realm of syntax, the critical spots of the greatest weight were: the ability to think logically, the knowledge of the basic linguistic phenomena, the understanding of the syntactic relationships and the terminology. In morphology, the ability to distinguish between the parts of speech, the case determination, and the recognition of the number of the collective and the...

The topic of this thesis is the linguistic analysis of the Apollonius of Tyre novel contained in the Pinvicka collection, which comes from the second half of the 15th century. During the creation of the thesis is used especially the qualitative textual analysis, which is in the major part of the thesis supplemented by the quantitative statistical analysis. Opening parts of the thesis represent general information about the Pinvicka collection, in which is contained the analysed literary landmark, and about the literary landmark itself. Follows the detailed analysis of the orthography and of all linguistic layers, i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax and word formation. Every linguistic layer and the orthography are elaborated in a separate chapter. At the end of each chapter is the summary of the achieved results, which includes also charts and tables. In the chapter, which is devoted to the orthography, is primarily payd attention to the speech sounds, for which is typical disunited way of transcript. In the phonological part are treated phonic changes, which are realized in the text. The morphological part of the thesis is concerned with representation of word classes and particulary with grammatical cathegories of nouns and verbs. In the chapter, which treats syntactic plane, are analysed compound...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MONALISA DOS REIS AGUIAR.pdf: 1605739 bytes, checksum: cc9ce183012cc0cd0f34ded19c74abc7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper focusing on the orthography of 19th-Century Portuguese language seeks to investigate what orthographic system was used in elementary school textbooks then. Research corpus consisted of words taken from the 1891 Brazilian Constitution as well as words taken from three textbooks with a view to proving the hypothesis that orthographic rules were in effect at the time. Theoretical support was sought in the assumptions made by the História das Ideias Linguísticas (The History of Linguistic Ideas) in order to achieve the following goals: (1) to analyze spelling by checking the existence of any orthographic rules put forward by authoritative grammar books in those days; (2) to examine the occurrence of orthographic stability; (3) to verify to what extent orthography then can be regarded as pseudo-etymological . It was found that even though there was no orthographic norm in the late 19th Century there were rules in effect. Not only can this be proved by the orthographic stability of the words analyzed but also by their compliance with the orthographic proposals presented by the grammar books of that period. Moreover, the results have shown that there was an etymologizing attitude on the part of orthographers, which led to the dismissal of 19th-Century Portuguese orthography as being pseudo-etymological / Neste trabalho, cujo tema é a ortografia da língua portuguesa do século XIX, investigamos qual sistema ortográfico era usado em livros didáticos direcionados ao ensino primário dos anos oitocentos. Além de vocábulos retirados de três livros didáticos, constituiu o corpus da pesquisa palavras retiradas da Constituição de 1891, a fim de comprovar a hipótese de que havia uma norma ortográfica no período. Embasamo-nos teoricamente nos pressupostos da História das Ideias Linguísticas, procurando atingir os seguintes objetivos: (1) analisar a grafia dos vocábulos, verificando a existência de normas ortográficas propostas em gramáticas brasileiras consagradas no período; (2) examinar a ocorrência de estabilidade ortográfica nos documentos analisados; (3) verificar em que medida a ortografia da época pode ser considerada pseudo-etimológica . Constatamos que, embora não houvesse uma lei ortográfica no final do século XIX, havia uma norma em vigor, dado comprovado pela estabilidade gráfica dos vocábulos analisados e pela consonância com as propostas ortográficas das gramáticas do período examinadas. Além disso, os resultados demonstraram haver uma atitude etimologizante por parte dos ortógrafos, o que levou a desconsideração de que a ortografia oitocentista é pseudoetimológica.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:48:53Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 reis_mc_me_sjrp.pdf: 1329168 bytes, checksum: c069e8a62227d4478926d6983798be9d (MD5) / Disserta-se, neste trabalho, a respeito da relação entre as práticas sociais do oral/falado e do letrado/escrito, tomando como ponto de observação as grafias não-convencionais das vogais pretônicas, como “enfância” e “pidido”, em textos escritos de estudantes da quinta série (do Ensino Fundamental de oito anos). Na análise realizada, foram encontradas algumas tendências linguísticas das grafias não-convencionais, bem como algumas pistas, deixadas pelo sujeito, de sua representação da escrita. Tal análise partiu da noção da heterogeneidade da escrita, segundo a qual a escrita é considerada uma prática social, heterogeneamente constituída pelo trânsito do sujeito entre práticas sociais do oral/falado e do letrado/escrito (CORRÊA, 2004). Essa consideração levou-nos, também, a assumir a heterogeneidade da ortografia, que se dá a partir das relações (não-biunívocas) que as letras da escrita alfabética mantêm com os sons da fala. Quanto às grafias não-convencionais, concluímos que são resultado da percepção, por parte dos escreventes, dessas relações que as letras estabelecem com os sons: as grafias não-convencionais por transcrição fonética, como resultado da percepção da relação que o alfabeto mantém com o fonético-fonológico da língua; as grafias por hipercorreção, como resultado da percepção da não-biunivocidade entre letras e sons. No decorrer da análise, observou-se que, tanto as grafias por transcrição fonética quanto as por hipercorreção podem estabelecer relação com o fenômeno de alçamento na fala – que se refere à realização de /e, o/ semelhante à de /i, u/, como em “[i]ngenheiro” e “p[i]dido”. Da análise, conclui-se que as grafias não-convencionais são decorrentes da interpretação, por parte dos escreventes, de [i] e [u] de suas falas de dois modos: i)... / The present work is about the relationship between the oral/spoken and literate/written social practices. Our observation focus is the unconventional writings of pretonic vowels such as “enfância” (childhood) and “pidido” (request), in texts written by fifth graders (from the eight-year-Elementary School). In our analysis, some linguistic tendencies of unconventional writings and also some clues of the writing representations left by the subject were found. This analysis is based on the notion of writing heterogeneity by which the writing is considered a social practice built heterogeneously by the movement of the subject between oral/spoken and literate/written social practices (CORRÊA, 2004). This consideration also led us to assume the spelling heterogeneity that happens through the relations (non-biunivoc) that letters of alphabetic writing maintain with speech sounds. Considering the unconventional writing of pretonic vowels, we have concluded that they are results of the writers perceptions from the relations that letters have with sounds: the unconventional writing by phonetical transcription as a perception result that alphabet keeps with phonetic-phonological level of the language; the writing by hypercorrection, as a perception result to the non-biunivocity between letters and sounds. Through our analysis, we observed that not only the phonetic transcription writings but also the hypercorrection writings can establish relations with speech raising phenomenon, related to the use of /e, o/ similar to the use of /i, u/, such as “[i]ngenheiro” (engineer) and “p[i]dido” (request). From this analysis we could conclude that the unconventional writings are due to the interpretation made by the writers of their speech of [i] and [u] of two ways: i) as a raising vowel /i/ or /u/, writing <i> or <u>, what led to the phonetic transcription, such as in “pidido” (request) ...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:09:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 serra_mp_me_sjrp.pdf: 745870 bytes, checksum: b5514841b084b9e9d740d730a13fc3c2 (MD5) / Propusemos, neste trabalho, a observação de operações de reelaboração da segmentação em textos infantis. Interessaram-nos, particularmente, as marcas de reelaboração textual (mais especificamente, de reelaboração da segmentação). O propósito foi observar que fatores estariam envolvidos em momentos nos quais crianças, em momentos iniciais do processo de aquisição da escrita, distribuíam o material gráfico que produziam em porções menores e realizavam o que denominamos reelaboração da segmentação textual. O material que usamos foi formado de produções textuais de alunos de uma escola da rede pública de ensino do município de São José do Rio Preto (SP), que foram coletadas quinzenalmente e acompanhadas de modo longitudinal por um período de quatro anos. A partir desse conjunto, elegemos 62 textos, de 20 sujeitos que, durante o ano de 2002, cursavam a segunda série do ensino fundamental I. Cada produção foi selecionada por apresentar pelo menos duas ocorrências, num mesmo texto, em que o escrevente flutuava quanto à segmentação escrita. Fizemos um levantamento quantitativo das ocorrências de reelaboração em relação a constituintes prosódicos mobilizados, a fim de possibilitar a formulação de mais argumentos para o fato de que os constituintes prosódicos mobilizados nessas ocorrências teriam algum tipo de realidade para a criança/aprendiz da escrita. Estivemos atentos também para o que, nestas ocorrências, nos possibilitou conjeturar sobre a relação entre o que pôde ser considerado como fatos episódicos de escrita infantil e para o que pôde ser considerado como genérico. Com base, de um lado, em pressupostos teórico-metodológicos vinculados ao Paradigma Indiciário proposto por Ginzburg (1986) e, de outro, na idéia de um modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita, tal como formulada por Corrêa (1997 e 2004).... / In this work, we propose the observation of operations involved in the redevelopment of segmentation of infant writing. We concentrate, particulary, on textual redevelopment marks (more specifically on segment redevelopment). Our aim was to observe which factors are involved in the initial process of written acquisition and how, at this crucial time, children distribute and produce graphic material along the texts and realize sucessfully what we refer to as textual section development. Resource material came from written work from public school students in São José do Rio Preto (SP), which were collected on a fortnightly basis during a four year period. From this material, we selected 62 texts written by twenty people who attended the second grade of fundamental education in 2002. Each text was chosen due to the appearance of floating writing in the written segments on at least two occasions. A quantitative analysis between the incidence of redevelopment and the relation of prosodic constituents that are involved was carried out with the aim to enabling the formulation of arguments to the fact that prosodic constituents on these occasions had some contribution to children skill aquision. We also took care to note that these events enable us to deliberate about the possibility of what might be consider sporadic facts in infant writting and that could be considered as generic. Based upon presumed theorectical-methods tied to Paradigma Indiciário on one side, and the idea of a heterogenic method of written formulation, such as that proposed by Côrrea (1997 and 2004), on the other, we arrive at a proposition that, on these occasions, the interlacing of reconstructed aspects of the origin of written skills (in the case of children), and the institucionalized written code stirred up not only tension concerning the delimitation of works...(Complete abstract, click electronic address below).

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2018-09-12T18:04:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Helena Horvat de Farias Cesar.pdf: 3471223 bytes, checksum: 6d889a95cc8d6ac041268303f53a56f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-12T18:04:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Helena Horvat de Farias Cesar.pdf: 3471223 bytes, checksum: 6d889a95cc8d6ac041268303f53a56f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-27 / CAPES / This study investigates a specific case of overcorrection in the writing of students in the final years of elementary school: the improper addition of the grapheme <r> in the position of a syllable coda, based on present study as ?erregrafismo?. Records were found in different grammatical classes, such as "you", "boy", "to be", among others. Overcorrection is an excessive search for correction, as the term itself indicates. The phenomenon is produced when the individual interprets as incorrect a correct form of the language, consequently ends up exchanging in another form that considers cultured. This is due to linguistic insecurity, since the rules of the standard have not been internalized yet. Therefore, the present research has as general aim to minimize the cases of hypercorrection of the so-called ?erregrafismo? in the position of a syllabic coda in the writing of students of a class of 9th grade elementary school, through a proposal of pedagogical intervention that assists in due representation orthographic in regular morphological-grammatical relations. In line with this main objective, the following specific objectives have been identified: 1) to identify the contexts in which so-called ?erregrafismo? occurs most frequently; 2) develop adequate strategies to minimize the phenomenon of hypercorrection studied in the proposed research, in the different contexts in which it manifests itself. The hypothesis that guides this work is that questions of phonological and morphological awareness addressed in the intervention proposal formulated for this research, contribute to the proper application of the grapheme <r> in final position of the word, thus minimizing cases of hypercorrection in writing of students of elementary school. The methodology used is anchored to action research according to Thiollent's (2011) thinking. From the analysis of data, it was concluded that some students, due to the lack of syllabic tone perception and word segmentation in syllables, initially had difficulties in performing some proposed exercises. However, in the course of the intervention, it was found that the activities of comparison of words, seeking to perceive the similarities and / or differences between them, allowed the learners to consolidate correspondences between sound units (phonemes) and graphic units (graphemes) Thus, in the learning of morphological-grammatical phonemic-grapheme regularities. Another relevant finding was that activities involving pseudowords showed that although they did not know some invented words, the students used morphological knowledge to write such words, thus showing the importance of morphological awareness in spelling. / Este estudo investiga um caso espec?fico de hipercorre??o na escrita de estudantes dos anos finais do ensino fundamental: o acr?scimo indevido do grafema <r> em posi??o de coda sil?bica, cunhado no presente estudo como erregrafismo. Foram encontrados registros em diferentes classes gramaticais, como, por exemplo, ?voc?r? (voc?), ?meninor? (menino), ?estar? (est?), entre outros. A hipercorre??o ? uma busca excessiva de corre??o, como o termo por si s? indica. O fen?meno ? produzido quando o indiv?duo interpreta como incorreta uma forma correta da l?ngua, consequentemente acaba trocando por uma outra forma que considera culta. Isso ocorre por inseguran?a lingu?stica, uma vez que as regras da norma-padr?o ainda n?o foram interiorizadas. Sendo assim, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral minimizar os casos de hipercorre??o do chamado erregrafismo em posi??o de coda sil?bica na escrita de alunos de uma turma de 9? ano do Ensino Fundamental, por meio de uma proposta de interven??o pedag?gica que auxilie na devida representa??o ortogr?fica em rela??es regulares morfol?gico-gramaticais. Em conson?ncia com esse objetivo principal, t?m-se os seguintes objetivos espec?ficos: 1) identificar os contextos nos quais o chamado erregrafismo ocorre com mais frequ?ncia; 2) desenvolver estrat?gias adequadas ? minimiza??o do fen?meno de hipercorre??o estudado na pesquisa proposta, nos diferentes contextos nos quais ele se manifesta. A hip?tese que norteia este trabalho ? que quest?es de consci?ncias fonol?gica e morfol?gica abordadas na proposta de interven??o formuladas para esta pesquisa contribuem para a devida aplica??o do grafema <r> em posi??o final de voc?bulo, minimizando, dessa forma, casos de hipercorre??o na escrita de estudantes do EF. A metodologia utilizada est? ancorada ? pesquisa-a??o, segundo o pensamento de Thiollent (2011). Da an?lise de dados, concluiu-se que alguns alunos, por apresentarem lacunas na percep??o da tonicidade sil?bica e na segmenta??o da palavra em s?labas, inicialmente tiveram dificuldades em realizar alguns exerc?cios propostos. Entretanto, no decorrer da interven??o, constatou-se que atividades de compara??o de palavras, buscando perceber as semelhan?as e/ou diferen?as entre elas, fizeram com que os aprendizes consolidassem correspond?ncias entre unidades sonoras (fonemas) e unidades gr?ficas (grafemas1), auxiliando, assim na aprendizagem das regularidades fon?mico-graf?micas morfol?gico-gramaticais. Outra constata??o relevante foi que atividades envolvendo pseudopalavras mostraram que apesar de desconhecerem algumas palavras inventadas, os alunos lan?aram m?o de conhecimentos morfol?gicos para escreverem tais voc?bulos, mostrando dessa forma a import?ncia da consci?ncia morfol?gica na ortografia.