Although studies on L2 learning strategies are a major strand of second language research, recent research has shifted its focus onto language learners’ metacognitive awareness and use of strategies. Previous studies shed important light on the amelioration in L2 educational practices, but research on learners’ metacognition in the reading process in EFL contexts remains insufficient, especially at the university level in terms of the emic view of the participants studied in Taiwan. Based on an interpretive stance, this exploratory case study aimed at probing 12 Taiwanese first year university EFL learners’ metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies during their strategic reading process, and the relationship with proficiency levels and texts of both the narrative and the expository type. This study relies on the think aloud and immediately retrospective protocols of 6 high proficient and 6 low proficient readers as the principal sources of data. The think aloud protocols and the immediately retrospective interviews were transcribed and subjected to content analysis by means of coding them. Taiwanese first year university EFL readers’ metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies were then analysed and interpreted from a broad metacognitive perspective within the information processing model in terms of strategy application for reading comprehension problem-solving. The findings revealed that the participants demonstrated an awareness and control of their cognitive activities while reading. The strategies they employed were grouped into the categories of supporting reading strategies (SRSs), cognitive reading strategies (CRSs), and metacognitive reading strategies (MRSs). The study found that these learners’ metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies in learning to read were closely related to L2 proficiency. The low proficient readers’ unfamiliarity with L2 is a hindrance to their reading comprehension which, in turn, disabled them from using the strategies appropriately and effectively. Furthermore, the high proficient readers outperformed their low proficient counterparts in terms of both the quality and quantity of strategies used. Both groups did not use the same strategy types. The findings also revealed that certain types of reading strategy were used differently due to the texts of the narrative and the expository type across the different ability levels. The existing literature on metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies in learning to read is discussed and pedagogical implications for teachers of L2 reading are offered. These implications include suggestions made for providing learners with explicit reading and strategy instruction and texts with different structure in relation to strategy use. Finally, the limitations of the current research study and recommendations for further research were stated.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 andreiaalvimbellotti.pdf: 4102218 bytes, checksum: a37f0d472dbe493c8b121f0659256d30 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-23 / PROQUALI (UFJF) / A apropriação das Tecnologias Digitais (TDs) na prática pedagógica, pelos professores dos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental da Rede Municipal de Juiz de Fora e a possível articulação dessa prática com a Proposta Curricular de Língua Portuguesa desse nível de ensino, tendo em vista o processo de alfabetização e letramento dos alunos, constituiu-se o foco desta pesquisa. Sua organização orienta-se a partir de uma pesquisa qualitativa que se fundamenta na teoria da construção social do conhecimento de Vygotsky (1995, 1996,1998, 2007) e na teoria enunciativa da linguagem de Bakhtin (1992, 1999, 2003). Somando-se a essas teorias, a fundamentação está ancorada nos estudos de Soares (2002, 2004), Freitas (2008, 2009, 2010 e outros), Rojo (2010, 2012), Lévy (1999), Bevilaqua (2013) e Kenski (2012a, 2012b). A entrevista, a observação participante e o questionário são os instrumentos escolhidos para a coleta de dados por propiciarem uma relação dialógica entre pesquisadora e pesquisados. Acrescenta-se a estes a análise documental da Proposta Curricular de Língua Portuguesa. A pesquisa identificou que os professores vêm se apropriando das TDs em sua prática pedagógica enquanto instrumentos culturais de aprendizagem da atualidade e desenvolvendo um trabalho com vistas a alfabetizar letrando com as TDs. As práticas dos professores sujeitos da pesquisa se mostraram alinhadas ao propósito de construção de um currículo escolar coadunado com as novas tendências sociais de uma sociedade tecnologizada. Os docentes propõem atividades variadas com a intenção de trabalhar o uso instrumental das tecnologias ou, de forma mais ampla, com finalidade pedagógica, em que os objetivos vão além do uso instrumental, relacionando-se aos conteúdos curriculares previstos. De todas as práticas mencionadas, o jogo é proeminente no Laboratório de Informática (LI), permitindo a construção do conhecimento nas diversas áreas e maior apropriação do universo digital. O planejamento e os recursos materiais e humanos foram apontados como elementos fundamentais para o trabalho com as TDs, destacando-se como entraves a uma boa prática a dificuldade de conexão com a internet, a condição e quantidade insuficiente dos equipamentos e o desvio de função do professor do LI. O professor responsável pelo LI da escola tem sua prática voltada ao processo de ensino-aprendizagem dos alunos, porém também é um formador de seus pares, reconhecido por eles, no que se refere ao uso das TDs. A prática pedagógica desenvolvida no LI é influenciada pelas orientações da Proposta Curricular de Língua Portuguesa, de acordo com a concepção dos letramentos (múltiplos), embora a suplante no que se refere à construção de um trabalho que se volta à perspectiva dos multiletramentos. Nessa direção, ficou evidenciada a importância de dar continuidade ao trabalho com a multiplicidade semiótica dos textos e investir também, de forma mais efetiva, no trabalho com a multiplicidade cultural das populações, de modo a redesenhar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem. / The appropriation of Digital Technologies (DTs) in the pedagogical practice, by elementary and junior high teachers in municipal schools of Juiz de Fora, and the possible articulation of such practice with the Portuguese Language Curricular Proposal for that level, considering the basic process of reading and writing and process of literacy constitutes the focus of this research. Its organization is guided by a qualitative research based on Vygotsky's theory of social construction of knowledge (1995, 1996, 1998, 2007), and Bakhtin'senunciative theory of language (1992, 1999, 2003). In addition to these theories, the groundwork is anchored in studies by Soares (2002, 2004), Freitas (2008, 2009, 2010 and others) and Rojo (2010, 2012), Lévy (1999), Bevilaqua (2013) and Kenski (2012a, 2012b). The interview, the participant observation and the questionnaire are the chosen instruments for data collection once they provide a dialogical relationship between the researcher and the researched ones. Moreover, it was added the documental analysis of the Portuguese Language Curricular Proposal. The research verified that teachers have appropriated DTs in their pedagogical practice as cultural instruments of current learning and developed a work hoping to teach the alphabet with literacy by using DTs.The practices of the teachers who are subjects of the research were aligned with the purpose of building a school curriculum in line with the new social tendencies of a technologized society.Teachers propose varied activities with the intention of working on the instrumental use of technologies or, more broadly, for pedagogical purposes, in which the objectives go beyond the instrumental use, being related to the curricular contents that are expected.Of all the mentioned practices, the game is prominent in the Computer Laboratory (CL), allowing the construction of knowledge in different areas and greater appropriation of the digital universe. Planning and material and human resources were identified as fundamental elements for the work with DTs, being pointed as obstacles to a good practice, the difficulty of connecting to the Internet, the insufficient condition and quantity of equipment and the function diversion of the CL teacher.The teacher responsible for the CL of the school has its practice focused on the teaching-learning process of the students, but also the teacher is a trainer of their peers, recognized by them, regarding the use of DTs. The pedagogical practice developed in the CL is influenced by the orientations of the Portuguese Language Curriculum Proposal, according to the conception of the literacies (multiple), although it supplants the last one, concerning the construction of a work that goes towards the perspective of multiliteracies. According with this direction, it became evident the importance of continuing the work with the semiotic multiplicity of the texts and also investing, more effectively, in the work with the populations cultural multiplicity, in order to redesign the teaching-learning process

L'objectiu general d'aquesta tesi fou estudiar longitudinalment l'adquisició lectora (català i castellà), de 2n. a 5è. cursos d'Educació Primària, en una mostra de 214 alumnes (101 nenes i 113 nens) d'una escola pública catalana, a partir dels resultats obtinguts en les Proves Psicopedagògiques d'Aprenentatges Instrumentals (P.P.A.I.; Canals, Carbonell, Estaún i Añaños, 1988), aplicades a principi i final de cada curs. Les P.P.A.I. valoren la velocitat i exactitud de descodificació lectora a través de la lectura de textos diferents per a cada curs, i la comprensió lectora mitjançant exercicis diferents per a cada curs (ordenar frases, executar ordres escrites, respondre qüestions sobre el contingut d'un text...).Els resultats van ser:-La majoria de la mostra, escolaritzada en català, amb independència de la llengua més parlada a casa (català o castellà), van desenvolupar progressivament i de forma similar les habilitats lectores (català i castellà) iniciades en cursos anteriors, aconseguint a finals de 5è. l'automatització dels procés de descodificació lectora en ambdues llengües.-La velocitat lectora pràcticament es va triplicar, passant d'unes 40 paraules/minut inicials a unes 130 paraules /minut a finals de 5è.- L'exactitud lectora també va augmentar i, a finals de 5è., la majoria de la mostra llegien sense quasi errors d'exactitud.-La comprensió lectora cada cop fou més elaborada i la majoria es van afrontar progressivament, amb èxit, a activitats més complexes de comprensió lectora.-En general, el desenvolupament de les habilitats lectores va ser bastant similar en els dos sexes, però a finals de 5è. es van detectar més nens que nenes amb nivell baix (descodificació i/o comprensió) i més nenes que nens amb nivell alt (descodificació i/o comprensió).-Els subjectes que es van situar en un nivell mig (descodificació i/o comprensió) a 2n., van ser els que més es van mantenir en el mateix nivell fins a 5è. En canvi, els que a 2n. mostraven nivells extrems (alt o baix), van evolucionar de forma més variable.-Es va observar que les habilitats adequades de descodificació lectora no van implicar, necessàriament, haver desenvolupat un bon nivell de comprensió lectora. I al revés, un bon nivell de comprensió no sempre va correlacionar amb un nivell correcte de descodificació.-Després de classificar la mostra en tres subgrups (mig, alt i baix) a partir dels resultats en descodificació i comprensió en català de l'última valoració de 5è., es van observar evolucions bastant paral·leles entre els subgrups en velocitat i comprensió, mantenint-se cada subgrup en el nivell que els definia al llarg dels diferents cursos. Però un 6,54% de la mostra, amb dificultats de comprensió lectora en català a finals de 5è, va experimentar, respecte la mostra i el seu propi rendiment en la primera valoració de 5è., una important disminució de la comprensió lectora a finals de 5è. / The main objective of this thesis has been to do a longitudinal study of reading acquisition (catalan and castilian) with children from the second to the fith year of primary school. The sample used was a group of 214 students (101 girls and 113 boys) studying in a State Catalan school and the study was carried out using the results obtained in the Proves Psicopedagògiques d'Aprenentatges Instrumentals (P.P.A.I.; Canals, Carbonell, Estaún and Añanos, 1988) given at the beginning and at the end of each school year. The P.PA.I. test the speed and accuracy of reading decodification through the reading of different texts for each course and also reading comprehension through different exercises for each of the courses (ordering sentences, executing reading orders, answering questions about the content of a text...)The following results were obtained:-The majority of the sample, instructed in catalan independently of the language most spoken at home (catalan or castilian) developed the reading abilities (catalan and castilian) initiated in previous years progressively and similarly, automatizing the process of reading decodification at the end of the fifth year.-The reading speed nearly tripled going from 40 words per minute initially till 130 words per minute at the end of the fifth year.-The reading accuracy also increased and a the end of the fifth year most students were able to read without hardly making any errors of accuracy.-Reading comprehension also increased and most students were progressively able to succeed in more complex reading comprehension activities.-In general, the development of reading abilities was pretty similar in both sexes but at the end of the fifth year there were more boys with a low level of decodification and/or comprehension and more girls than boys with a higher level of decodification and/or comprehension.-The subjects with a mid level of decodification and/or comprehension in the second level were the ones who remained in the same level in the fifth year. On the other hand, the subjects who showed extreme levels (high or low) developed in a more variable way.-We also observed that the subjects who developed fair abilities of reading decodification did not necessarily develop a good level of reading comprehension. On the contrary,a good level of comprehension did not always correlate with a fair level of decodification.-After classifying the sample in three subgroups (high, medium and low) through the results obtained in decodification and comprehension in catalan from the last assessment in the fifth year we observed quite paralell evolutions between the subgroups in speed and comprehension, each of the subgroups maintaining in the same level along the different courses. But there was a 6.54% of the sample with difficult reading comprehension in catalan that at the end of the fifth year showed an important decrease in reading comprehension compared to the first assessment given at the beginning of the fifth year.