In second language (L2) reading research, the impact and feasibility of reading linguistically and culturally unmodified texts with novice language learners has been largely underexplored. Some studies, however, have shown that reading unabridged texts with learners enhances their reading comprehension more than does reading shorter texts from a textbook (Maxim, 2002, 2006). This dissertation explores how, through engaging with authentic foreign language (FL) texts, beginning L2 learners develop L2 reading comprehension abilities and cultural understandings. To investigate beginning learners’ FL reading development, a reading journal (RJ) task was developed that asked students to read two thematically related texts representing different genres. In each of three RJs, 56 second-semester collegiate L2 German learners were evaluated on their ability to use textual evidence for text comparison and identification of each text’s readership(s). Data analysis triangulated students’ quantitative and qualitative pre- and post-treatment questionnaire responses with their RJ scores to address two research questions: (1) how students’ reading abilities developed while working with guided reading journals, and (2) how students’ understanding of culture and cultural learning changed during the semester. Repeated measures analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were used to look for relationships between scores, instructional time, and text type. Text and instructional time were found to be statistically significant with regard to students’ reading comprehension. Learners’ ability to use textual evidence in their comparisons and in identifying texts’ readerships was also statistically significant, though those abilities developed only minimally. Finally, learners expanded their understanding of culture to include more items pertaining to cultural values and perspectives, while altering their understanding of cultural learning to include reading as a way of exploring FL cultures. These results suggest that a literacy-based approach to L2 reading using unabridged texts integrated within an intact language course can prompt changes in students’ reading comprehension and understanding of culture. Implications for beginning FL instruction are discussed, particularly the need for approaches to beginning reading that support development in learners’ reading abilities and understanding of culture and cultural learning, and that better prepare students for more advanced language instruction. / text

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Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-04-17T15:01:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4552061 bytes, checksum: 5d3f17b03ba5fe2c2a423ff7fe69e1ce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-17T15:01:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 4552061 bytes, checksum: 5d3f17b03ba5fe2c2a423ff7fe69e1ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Starting from the verification of a considerable index of failures in Secondary School of a municipal school from Goianinha/RN, it was found that a significant proportion of students have difficulties concerning reading. Thus, it is necessary to review the teaching of reading in schools, especially the teaching of literary reading, which should be seen as an ally to reverse this scenario. In this perspective, the objective of this study is to promote literary literacy in the eighth grade classes, using daily readings as an instrument to contribute to the formation of an active reader, who knows how to interact and to express their view of the different realities. Therefore, we intend to encourage the reading of literary texts, through the horror genre, in order to motivate the student to the habit of reading and producing texts; to allow the daily readers to make their literary reading with freedom, emphasizing what seems most significant to them; to improve the critical position of the reader by dialoguing with different readers and readings. The literary language shows all its potential, besides assisting in the processes of acquisition and expansion of reading and writing, corroborates the formation of the individual, developing a humanizing role. In this sense, in light of the theoretical assumptions of Soares (2009), Cosson (2014), Candido (1995), National Curriculum Standards of Portuguese Language (1998), Machado (1998), Buzzo (2003), Massol and Esposito (2012) among others, we propose a intervention project based on a reading journal, using the research-action methodology, as well as the concepts of Thiollent (1996). Reading journals proved to be an important tool to encourage literary literacy in schools. Since the use of writing is inherent in the making of the journal, we identified that linking reading to writing provided us a better understanding of the students' reading processes, since they have expressed in writing their understanding of the work. The results obtained showed that the literature of fear, represented by book Tales Seven bones and a curse, by Rosa Amanda Strausz, hooked the young readers, who learned to share their reading and to express their look through the journals. We achieved our goal to encourage literary literacy and to provide students opportunities for reading, socialization and freedom of expression. / A partir da verificação de um índice considerável de reprovações no Ensino Fundamental II, de uma escola da rede municipal de Goianinha/RN, foi constatado que uma parcela significativa dos discentes possui dificuldades em relação à leitura. Assim, é necessário rever o ensino da leitura na escola, sobretudo o ensino da leitura literária, que deve ser encarado como um aliado para reverter esse cenário. Nessa perspectiva, o objetivo do presente estudo visa promover o letramento literário em turmas do oitavo ano, utilizando o diário de leituras como instrumento capaz de contribuir para a formação de um leitor ativo, que saiba interagir e expressar o seu olhar sobre as diferentes realidades. Para tanto, pretendemos incentivar a leitura do texto literário, por meio do gênero terror, a fim de motivar o aluno ao hábito de ler e de produzir textos; permitir ao diarista fazer a sua leitura com liberdade, dando ênfase ao que lhe parece mais significativo; melhorar o posicionamento crítico do leitor ao dialogar com diferentes leitores e leituras. A linguagem literária evidencia toda a sua potencialidade, além de auxiliar nos processos de aquisição e ampliação da leitura e da escrita, corrobora para a formação do indivíduo, desenvolvendo um papel de humanização. Nesse sentido, à luz dos pressupostos teóricos de Soares (2009), Cosson (2014), Candido (1995), Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais de Língua Portuguesa (1998), Machado (1998), Buzzo (2003), Massol e Esposito (2012) entre outros, propomos um projeto de intervenção, baseado no diário de leituras, utilizando a metodologia da pesquisa-ação, conforme os conceitos de Thiollent (1996). O diário de leituras demonstrou ser um importante instrumento para incentivar o letramento literário nas escolas. Como o uso da escrita é inerente à confecção do diário, identificamos que vincular a leitura à escrita nos permitiu uma melhor compreensão dos processos de leitura dos alunos, uma vez que eles expressaram por escrito o seu entendimento sobre a obra. Os resultados alcançados demonstraram que a literatura do medo, representada pelos contos do livro Sete ossos e uma maldição, de Rosa Amanda Strausz, fisgou o jovem leitor, o qual soube compartilhar sua leitura por meio dos diários. Alcançamos o nosso objetivo ao incentivar o letramento literário e ao propiciar espaços de leitura, socialização e liberdade de expressão.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-01-11T14:44:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 16531187 bytes, checksum: 5463888e8f83f1330ce32543220205df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-11T14:44:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 16531187 bytes, checksum: 5463888e8f83f1330ce32543220205df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-01 / This doctoral thesis aims to investigate how the genre reading journal, understood as an academic literacy event, can enhance academic professional identity of undergraduate students in initial teacher education. This qualitative study focuses on the Children‟s Literature course in the Pedagogy undergraduate program at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), and the corpus consists of journals produced by five participants during one semester, in 2013. Situated in the Applied Linguistic field, this piece of research is grounded in Cultural Studies (HALL, 2001, 2012), Bauman´s(2001, 2005) sociological perspective, New Literacy Studies (KLEIMAN 1995, 2007, 2008; BARTON & HAMILTON, 2000, among others), Sociodiscursive Interactionism (BRONCKART, 1999, 2006, 2008, BRONCKART & MACHADO, 2009), and the Work Sciences (CLOT, 1999[2006]). Based on the underlying assumptionthat identity construction is a sociodiscursive activity (SILVA & MATÊNCIO), and on the textual analysis model proposed by Sociodiscursive Interactionism (BRONCKART, op.cit), I will focus on the enunciative level of the reading journals, as well as on the thematization of the constitutive elements of teachers´ work (BRONCKART & MACHADO, op.cit), in light of SDI. The reading journal analysis revealed three identity categories: (i)) reader of children‟s books; (ii) undergraduate student in initial teacher education, and iii) teacher developing readers of children´s books. Such identities are (re)constructed in a network of voices in which the empirical authors of the journals shift to the past, present and future, reframing their experiences as school students, undergraduate students and beginning teachers, underscoring the appropriation of university discourses and the professional genre(CLOT& FAIT, 2000; FAÏTA, 2004), such as the official Brazilian guidelines and teacher education, as well as concepts and practices of the teachers´ collective. In sum, this study highlights the reading journal as an important toolfor teacher identity construction, enabling developmental mediation (BRONCKART, 2006) and enhancing socioprofessional identities of university students by means of enunciative positioning in the journals -as readers, as undergraduate students and as teachers developing readers. / A presente tese de doutorado tem como objetivo investigar como o gênero diário de leituras, enquanto evento de letramento acadêmico, pode promover espaços de construção identitária acadêmico-profissional de alunos em formação docente inicial. A pesquisa, de caráter qualitativo, enfoca dados gerados na disciplina Literatura Infantil do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal de Campina (UFCG), por meio da produção diarista de cinco participantes da pesquisa, durante um semestre letivo, em 2013. Inserida na campo da Linguística Aplicada, reúne contribuições teóricas de três correntes de estudo: os Estudos Culturais (HALL, 2011, 2012) e a perspectiva sociológica de Bauman (2001, 2005); os Estudos de Letramento (KLEIMAN, 1995, 2007, 2008; BARTON e HAMILTON, 2000, entre outros) e o Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (BRONCKART, 1999, 2006, 2008; BRONCKART e MACHADO, 2009). Partindo da premissa de que a construção da identidade é uma atividade social e discursiva (SILVA e MATÊNCIO, 2005), analisamos o nível enunciativo dos diários de leitura à luz do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo, bem como a tematização dos elementos constitutivos do trabalho do professor (BRONCKART e MACHADO, 2009)), tendo em vista a construção da identidade acadêmico-profissional das alunas diaristas. A análise dos diários de leitura revelou a emergência de três categorias identitárias: i) Eu leitora de obras infantis; ii) Eu aluna-leitora em formação docente inicial; e iii) Eu professora-leitora formadora de leitores de obras infantis. Tais identidades são construídas a partir de uma rede de vozes, na qual as autoras empíricas dos diários operam deslocamentos para o passado, presente e futuro, resgatando suas experiências como alunas da Educação Básica e projetando o seu papel de futuras professoras formadoras de leitores, a partir da apropriação dos discursos que se firmam como norteadores da formação no âmbito da academia ou no gênero profissional (CLOT e FAÏTA, 2000; FAÏTA, 2004), a exemplo das orientações de documentos oficiais e de professores formadores, ou mesmo das concepções e práticas de um coletivo de professores. Desse modo, o diário de leitura se mostrou como um importante instrumento de construção da identidade docente, uma vez que proporcionou a mediação formativa (BRONCKART, 2006) para o desenvolvimento de dimensões identitáriass socioprofissionais das alunas em formação (como leitoras, graduandas e formadoras de leitores), à medida que se posicionavam enunciativamente em seus diários.