Purpose: Response Elaboration Training (RET) is a treatment program for increasing the amount of information contained in the speech of individuals with aphasia. This study employed a sentence production task (SPT) to examine whether RET will (1) generalize to a task not worked on in treatment and (2) affect syntactic performance. Methods and Procedures: Three adults with chronic non-fluent Broca’s aphasia received RET in this prospective, repeated case study. The dependent variable was a SPT requiring the participant to put a verb in a sentence. Changes in the syntactic performance of the participant’s sentence productions were classified across three parameters: (1) syntactic structure, (2) grammatical completeness, and (3) semantic appropriateness. Results: Findings of this study indicate that RET improves the syntactic performance of individuals with chronic Broca’s aphasia and generalizes to a task not worked on in treatment. Participant responses to the SPT showed increased complexity in syntactic structures, improved grammaticality, and improved topic relevancy. In addition, qualitative improvements were seen in 5 randomly selected verbs for each participant. These improvements included increased length of sentences and fewer false starts, interjections, and disfluencies. Finally, improvements on the Western Aphasia Battery and two picture description tasks were evinced for two participants.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-03-09T12:00:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 jesusnazarenomartinsdias.pdf: 1901455 bytes, checksum: 700096bcfa64b16e318246adeb570558 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-03-10T12:56:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 jesusnazarenomartinsdias.pdf: 1901455 bytes, checksum: 700096bcfa64b16e318246adeb570558 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-03-10T12:57:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 jesusnazarenomartinsdias.pdf: 1901455 bytes, checksum: 700096bcfa64b16e318246adeb570558 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-10T12:57:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 jesusnazarenomartinsdias.pdf: 1901455 bytes, checksum: 700096bcfa64b16e318246adeb570558 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-09 / A presente pesquisa propõe investigar a elaboração de um conjunto de tarefas referenciadas teoricamente, para introduzir a noção de juros para estudantes do Ensino Fundamental como parte do processo de educá-los financeiramente. A investigação se caracteriza por uma abordagem qualitativa. A leitura da produção de significados dos sujeitos de pesquisa e a produção das tarefas serão referenciadas teoricamente pelo Modelo dos Campos Semânticos proposto por Lins (1999). As tarefas a serem elaboradas farão parte de uma proposta de currículo de Educação Financeira inserida na atual estrutura curricular do ensino fundamental e darão origem a um produto educacional direcionado a professores e alunos da educação básica. / This present study proposes to investigate the elaboration of a set of tasks theoretically referenced to introduce a notion of interest to students of elementary school as part of the process of educating them financially. The investigation is characterized by a qualitative approach. The production reading of meanings the subjects of research and tasks production are theoretically referenced by Semantic Fields Model proposed by Lins (1999). The tasks to be elaborated will be part of a Financial Education curriculum proposal inserted into the current curriculum of the elementary school and will give origin to an educational product targeted to teachers and students of basic education.

En el presente estudio se hace una comparación entre los dos libros de texto Caminando y Vistas, los cuales son los dos más utilizados en la clase de ELE en el bachillerato sueco. El objetivo del estudio es analizar cuáles son los métodos utilizados en las tareas de producción escrita en los libros de texto anteriormente mencionados. Otra pregunta que se pretende contestar es cómo trabajan los profesores de ELE con las tareas de producción escrita que ofrecen los libros de texto. Además, se busca responder en qué se basan las otras tareas de producción escrita que utilizan los profesores de ELE en su enseñanza. La hipótesis es que los libros de texto ofrecen tareas de producción escrita que principalmente tienen el enfoque gramatical, donde el aprendiz ha de traducir frases. La segunda hipótesis es que los profesores experimentan una falta de tiempo, lo que significa que solo eligen algunas tareas de producción escrita. La tercera hipótesis es que los profesores utilizan otras tareas de producción escrita y que estas tareas se basan en temas actuales, intereses de los aprendices y otros medios como, por ejemplo, artículos. El método empleado es de corte mixto, cualitativo y cuantitativo. Se utiliza el método de muestreo por conveniencia para saber cuáles son los libros de texto más utilizados en la clase de ELE. Para el análisis de las tareas de producción escrita, se aplican los cuatro enfoques mencionados por Cassany (2003: 271): el gramatical, el funcional, el procesual y el enfoque basado en el contenido. Los informantes del estudio son un total de siete profesoras activas, cinco que usan Caminando y dos que usan Vistas. Las docentes que contestaron el cuestionario tienen entre 3,5 a 41 años de experiencia como profesoras de ELE. El resultado del estudio muestra que el enfoque gramatical es el dominante en ambos libros de texto. Adicionalmente, los resultados indican que las profesoras experimentan una falta de tiempo y que no trabajan mucho con las tareas de producción escrita que ofrecen los libros de texto, sino que utilizan otras tareas de producción escrita basadas en temas actuales o intereses de los aprendices. / The following study is a comparison between the textbooks Caminando y Vistas which are the two most used textbooks in the Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) classroom in Swedish Upper Secondary School. The study aims to analyze what methods are used in the written production tasks in the abovementioned textbooks in Sweden. Another question that the study seeks to answer to is how teachers work with the written production tasks offered by these textbooks. Furthermore, the study seeks to answer what the other tasks used by teachers are based on. The hypothesis of the study is that the textbooks offer tasks of written production that are primarily based on the grammatical approach, where the learner gets to translate sentences. The second hypothesis is that teachers experience a lack of time, which means that they only choose some tasks of written production. The third is that teachers use other written production tasks and that these are based on current topics, students’ interests and other media such as, among other, news articles. The method used is mixed, both qualitative and quantitative. A convenience sampling was used to find out which textbooks are the two most used in the class of ELE. For the analysis of the written production tasks, the four approaches mentioned by Cassany (2003: 271) were applied: the grammatical, the functional, the procedural, and the content-based approach. The informants of the study are a total of seven active teachers, five who use Caminando and two who use Vistas. The informants have between 3,5 and 41 years of experience teaching ELE. The result of the study shows that the grammatical approach is the dominant one in both textbooks. Additionally, the results indicate that teachers experience a lack of time and do not work much with the written production tasks offered by textbooks but instead use other tasks based on current topics or interests of the learners.