Peer response in which students work together in dyads or small groups to critique and provide feedback on one another's writing is compatible with communicative approaches to foreign language teaching and process approaches to the teaching of writing. Computer-mediated communication has been considered a viable tool for both the teaching of languages and the teaching of writing. There is, however, scant information on how computer-mediated peer response functions in the foreign language classroom. This dissertation investigated how college Spanish learners provided feedback to their peers and the impact of feedback on revision. It also examined the factors that influenced how students wrote their comments, and how they perceived the use of computers for peer response. Case study methodology was used to collect and analyze data from two writing tasks performed as part of a semester-long course. Data sources consisted of written feedback, first and second drafts, interview transcripts, learning journals from 12 participants and the teacher-researcher field notes. Analysis of data indicated that peer response is a complex event, influenced by a variety of contextual factors. Results also indicated that the participants used feedback depending on their needs. Students used reacting, advising and announcing language functions when providing feedback, and focused mostly on content. The revisions made by the participants contradicted the idea that peer feedback directly influences revision; more than half of the revisions made by the participants originated in the writers themselves and not in the suggestions given by their peers. Analysis of the revisions made, based on peers' suggestions indicated that the impact of peer response was strong on the length of the essays, limited on their language below the clause level, and weak on the essays' communicative purpose. The participants' language proficiency and the characteristics of the writing task were perceived by the participants as factors that influenced how they wrote feedback for their peers. Finally, although the students considered that using the word processing language tools allowed them to learn about language and focus on content, the role of technology was perceived as supplementary to oral peer response.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what pupils who study Spanish as a foreignlanguage in the senior level of the nine year compulsory school, think about how theylearn to talk Spanish. What is their opinion about what it takes to be able to speak andcommunicate in Spanish? And what type of exercises do they prefer? This paper alsoaims at investigating if the pupils understand the importance of reading, writing andlistening to as much Spanish as possible if they want to be good at talking Spanish. Inour investigation are we using the Common European Framework of Reference forlanguages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and other theories that supporttheir conclusions. A quantitative method is applied, a questionnaire is given to 108students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grade in a school in the southern part ofSweden.The results of the questionnaire have shown that when it comes to learn to talkSpanish the pupils believe most in practicing talking in Spanish. 72% of the pupils haveanswered that they agree completely with this assertion. They also understand theimportance of the teacher speaking Spanish during class, 58% completely agree that thisis important. Talking Spanish is classed as output, and listening to the teacher talkingSpanish goes under the term input. The type of activity that they prefer when they talkSpanish is to talk in small groups with friends/classmates, 38% of the pupils think thatthis is the best method. The activity that they prefer the least is to make presentations infront of the class (11%). We have also calculated by using Fisher´s exact test if there isa connection between how they have answered the questions and their age and gender.In only one case was there a connection with statistical certainty. The test showed thatwhen it comes to speaking when everyone is listening, the girls are those whoexperience it hardest to do.

Con el objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo de las estrategias de búsqueda lexicográfica de los estudiantes de español LE/L2, se realizó un estudio empírico para averiguar el uso concreto de recursos lexicográficos por parte tanto de profesores como de estudiantes. Con tal finalidad se observaron y anotaron los recursos usados, el orden de consulta y también las estrategias aplicadas por ambos grupos al realizar una traducción técnica del alemán al español. El análisis de los datos revela que existen pocas diferencias entre las estrategias de ambos grupos de usuarios: si bien los estudiantes realizan un mayor número de consultas y usan más recursos, no necesitan más tiempo que los profesores y además llegan a resultados similares respecto a la corrección de las traducciones. Todo ello apunta a que, antes de entrenar a los estudiantes de ELE en el manejo de recursos lexicográficos, es necesario capacitar al profesorado en su uso.

A cultura de aprender e ensinar uma língua estrangeira baseia-se em teorias implícitas que são compostas por fatores como crenças, motivações, memórias, intuições e imagens, dentre outros. Dessa forma, as concepções dos agentes envolvidos na operação global do ensino de línguas exercem profunda influência em todo o processo, já que cada indivíduo, permeado por seu contexto sócio-histórico-discursivo tem suas crenças que embasam as atitudes que norteiam seu comportamento em face do complexo processo de ensino-aprendizagem de línguas. Diante do exposto, esta tese tem como escopo analisar as crenças de professores de espanhol-língua estrangeira (E-LE) em formação inicial, no que diz respeito ao processo de aquisição/aprendizagem da língua estrangeira e ao tratamento unidade e diversidade linguística experimentada pelo espanhol no contexto do ensino desta língua para brasileiros; todas essas reflexões mediadas pelo cinema. Guiamo-nos pela pergunta de pesquisa: se e como se transformam, com a mediação do cinema, as crenças de professores de espanhol em formação inicial acerca do processo de aquisição/aprendizagem da língua estrangeira e do tratamento da unidade e diversidade linguística no ensino de espanhol-língua estrangeira para brasileiros? Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho etnográfico que se iniciou com a compreensão panorâmica do nosso contexto e, a partir de um grupo focal, traçou um levantamento das crenças dos participantes antes, durante e depois das oportunidades de reflexão propiciadas ao longo do semestre 2013.2, de forma a compreender, no processo, como elas se transformavam ou não por meio das atividades de reflexão propostas. A fundamentação teórica do trabalho está ancorada na perspectiva sociocultural, na formação de professores de línguas, na reflexão a respeito das crenças que permeiam o complexo processo de ensino-aprendizagem de línguas e no papel do cinema como artefato semiótico mediador. A experiência reforçou nossa tese de que o cinema pode contribuir significativamente na formação inicial de professores de espanhol língua-estrangeira promovendo a conscientização linguística a respeito de como se adquire/aprende a língua, bem como possibilitando o trabalho com a variação linguística no ensino deste idioma para brasileiros a partir do cinema, considerado conforme a perspectiva sociocultural que adotamos como artefato cultural, ferramenta de mediação simbólica potencializadora do desenvolvimento humano. Concluímos ressaltando a necessidade da difusão do espanhol como língua estrangeira multidimensional e intercultural para brasileiros no âmbito da integração latino-americana, bem como a importância da promoção de espaços de mediação na busca pela transformação de conceitos cotidianos, iluminados por conceitos científicos, possibilitados por meio de atividades que se proponham promover o pensamento reflexivo acerca das crenças, estratégias e atitudes envolvidas no processo de aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras, almejando potencializar o engajamento do aprendiz e o autogerenciamento da sua aprendizagem. / The culture of learning and teaching a foreign language is based on implicit theories involving beliefs, motivations, memories, insights and images, among others. In this sense, the concepts of the agents behind the overall operation of language teaching exert a profound influence on the whole process, since each individual, permeated by his socio-historical-discursive context, carries beliefs which ground their attitudes and behavior towards the complex process of teaching/learning languages. Considering the above, this dissertation aims at analyzing the beliefs of pre- service foreign language teachers of Spanish, with regard to their acquisition/learning of the language and the linguistic unit vs linguistic dichotomy experienced by Spanish teachers and learners in Brazil. These reflections will be mediated by the cultural and linguistic diversity of Spanish-speaking films. Our research questions whether the mediation of cinema would contribute to change the beliefs of pre-service teachers of Spanish towards the acquisition/learning of foreign languages and the linguistic diversity in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language in Brazil. Under the framework of ethnography and qualitative research, our study started by understanding the larger context, and using the focus group methodology, we surveyed the beliefs of the participants before, during and after the reflection encounters offered throughout the second semester of 2013, in order to detect whether these beliefs changed in the course of the discussions. Our theoretical framework is grounded on a sociocultural perspective, and drawn from studies on teacher education, on the role of beliefs on foreign language teaching/learning, and on the role of cinema as an artifact of semiotic mediation. The experience has strengthened our contention that cinema can significantly contribute to pre-service training of teachers of Spanish by promoting language awareness and language learning metacognition. Moreover, films, when regarded as cultural artifacts and tools of symbolic mediation that amplify human development, enable a deeper understanding of cultural and linguistic variation. We conclude by stressing the Spanish should be taught as a multidimensional, intercultural foreign language in Brazil, in the context of Latin American integration. We would also like to emphasize the importance of promoting spaces of mediation, since they may contribute to the transformation of everyday concepts, enlightened by scientific concepts, afforded through activities that promote reflection on the beliefs, attitudes and strategies involved in the process of learning a foreign language, and these may ultimately encourage learners autonomy and the self-management.

Nesta tese discute-se, a partir de um olhar teórico multidisciplinar, a relação entre sujeito, língua e tecnologias que se manifesta em enunciados produzidos em meio digital, no contexto de práticas pedagógicas de duas modalidades de educação a Educação a Distância (EAD) e a Educação Presencial (EP), em cursos superiores de Letras/Espanhol. Tem como objetivo principal contribuir para uma reflexão crítica sobre o papel exercido por diferentes tecnologias de suporte da escrita, surgidas no cenário da cibercultura, na relação entre sujeitos aprendizes e mediadores e também se propõe a observar de que forma essas tecnologias afetam o processo de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras, neste caso concretamente o espanhol por parte de falantes do português brasileiro. Para tanto, faz uso de uma metodologia qualitativa, com técnicas de observação participante e, nesse campo, de um conjunto de procedimentos de pesquisa, de natureza exploratória, etnográfica, auto-etnográfica e de descrição linguística, sem, no entanto, enveredar no que se conhece como análise de erros. As interpretações foram feitas a partir da análise de enunciados em fóruns digitais da EAD e da descrição de práticas pedagógicas híbridas, incluindo enunciados em meio digital, produzidos nessas práticas. Os resultados apontam para a necessidade de uma maior reflexão sobre enunciados produzidos em meio digital, em processos de ensino e aprendizagem, observando-os como objetos híbridos e complexos, que podem comportar informações sobre a postura do sujeito, tanto na relação com a língua estrangeira e as tecnologias quanto sobre a especificidade da cibercultura, assim como sobre a forma como esta molda novas formas de escrita e novas relações sócio-afetivas e comunicativas. / This thesis discusses, from a multidisciplinary theoretical standpoint, the relationship among individual (understood as a complex subject), language and technologies that manifests itself in utterances produced in digital media, in the context of teaching practices of two kinds - Distance Learning (DL) and Classroom Teaching (CT), in university degrees in Languages (Spanish). The main objective is to contribute to a critical reflection on the role played by different technologies that support writing, which emerged in the scenario of cyberculture, in the relationship involving learners and mediators. The research also intends to observe how these technologies affect the teaching and learning of foreign languages, in this specific case, the Spanish learned by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. To achieve its objective, a qualitative methodology is used, counting on participant observation techniques, and in this field, making use of a set of research procedures, which take the form of exploratory, ethnographic, auto-ethnographic and linguistic description research. However, error analysis is not used. The interpretations were made from the analysis of utterances set out in digital forums (DL) and from the description of hybrid pedagogical practices, including utterances digitally produced as part of these practices. The results point to the need for further reflection on utterances produced in digital media in teaching and learning processes, watching them as hybrid and complex objects, which can include information about the individuals attitudes. These can be related to the persons relationship with the foreign language and technologies, the specificity of cyberculture, as well as how cyberculture shapes new forms of writing and new socio-affective and communicative relationships.

A number of previous international studies have shown that many non-native Spanish speaking students lack sufficient oral communication skills. The aims of the study were twofold: 1) to investigate the possible effects of the Audio-Lingual method in the improvement of oral communication skills and 2) to test the effectiveness of two different teaching methods, i.e. the Audio-Lingual method and the Traditional method. A quantitative study was performed based on two different groups of students. One group worked with the Audio-Lingual method and the other group worked with the Traditional method. After a few lessons with the respective methods, the two groups were given a Fill-in the gap test that consisted of three parts: Greetings, Gender agreement and Number agreement. The test in Greetings and Number agreement showed no significant differences in results between the Audio-Lingual and the Traditional method. On the other hand, the test in Gender agreement showed that the Audio-Lingual method led to a significantly better result compared with the Traditional method. The study also demostrated that the students showed a greater interest in the Audio-Lingual method and this method helped the students to use their Spanish knowledge in other situations as well.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Siqueira Rosseto Salotti.pdf: 2748983 bytes, checksum: af7ac29dbf58100ad95baf0094f7cb7f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-08 / In this research, we aim at describing and understanding negotiation in collaborative writing process in order to produce a blog for a Spanish as a foreign language hybrid course. Theoretically, this study is based on Morin (2004, 2005 e 2010) and Moraes (2008) complexity, and on Santa-Cecilia (1996) and Donnino, Platero and Weigel (2013) mainly in teaching Spanish in Brazil, on among others, Zamel (1992) and Lerner (2002), who describe writing and collaborative writing and others. It is also based on Moraes (2008) and Valentini and Fagundes (2005) concept of negotiation. 9th grade students from a private school inland São Paulo state took part of this study. Besides their regular Spanish classes, they took a hybrid (on line and face-to-face) course which is the object of this study. The texts analyzed here were produced during this extra course. Students had to choose films as subject for the blog to be created by them, so discussions on those texts took place on Moodle and WhatsApp and reflections were written on Moddle s diary. Concerning methodology, we used Ricoeur (1986/2002), van Manen (1990) and Freire (2010/2012a) hermeneutic phenomenology approach. Our investigation showed that the focused phenomenon is built from the topics in the Forum: call, organization and teasing; in WhatsApp: agreement, trick, organization, teasing and complaining; and in the Diary: finding, expectation, anger and prudence. Each tool had its own progress and ramifications / Nesta pesquisa, objetivo descrever e interpretar, o fenômeno negociação no processo de escrita colaborativa para a produção de um blog em um curso semipresencial de Espanhol LE. Teoricamente, este estudo se fundamenta na complexidade pano de fundo para esta tese, a partir de Morin (2004, 2005 e 2010) e Moraes (2008), principalmente; no ensino de Espanhol no Brasil, com base em Santa-Cecilia (1996) e Donnino, Platero e Weigel (2013), entre outros; nos conceitos de escrita e escrita colaborativa, apoiada em Zamel (1992) e Lerner (2002), entre outros e na noção de negociação, a partir de Moraes (2008) e Valentini e Fagundes (2005). Participam do estudo alunos do nono ano do Ensino Fundamental II de uma escola particular do interior do estado de São Paulo que, além das aulas de Espanhol LE da matriz curricular, fizeram o curso semipresencial, objeto do presente estudo. Os textos que interpreto foram gerados no curso semipresencial que, para a escolha de filmes como assunto do blog a ser criado e elaborado pelos participantes, centralizou discussões no Fórum da plataforma Moodle e no WhatsApp, além de reflexões feitas no Diário, na referida plataforma. Metodologicamente, este estudo se orienta pela abordagem hermenêutico-fenomenológica, com base em Ricoeur (1986/2002), van Manen (1990) e Freire (2010/2012a). A investigação realizada revela que o fenômeno em foco se constitui, no Fórum a partir dos temas: chamado, organização e provocação; no WhatsApp a partir dos temas: acordo, artimanha, organização, provocação e reclamação e no Diário a partir dos temas constatação, expectativa, irritação e prudência, cada um dos instrumentos com seus desdobramentos

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo contribuir para o estudo das especificidades da aquisição / aprendizagem da língua espanhola por falantes adultos do português brasileiro. Nele, apresentamos um estudo que busca observar, compreender e explicar o uso do objeto direto anafórico na produção oral e escrita de aprendizes brasileiros universitários de espanhol como língua estrangeira. Buscamos embasamento teórico sobre a aquisição de línguas não-nativas, sobre o lugar da língua materna na aquisição de línguas estrangeiras e sobre o objeto direto no português brasileiro e no espanhol. As amostras de produção oral e escrita utilizadas foram coletadas durante aulas de espanhol como língua estrangeira de um curso livre ministrado dentro da Universidade de São Paulo. Elas revelaram que, assim como na língua materna e na língua alvo, há grande variabilidade na produção não-nativa em espanhol no que se refere à omissão, ao preenchimento e às formas de preenchimento do objeto direto anafórico. Mesmo assim, foi possível identificar tendências nessa produção que apontam para a possibilidade de reestruturação da gramática não-nativa, mostram a importância da instrução no caso do espanhol como língua estrangeira e revelam que características próprias da produção oral e escrita em espanhol como língua estrangeira se relacionam não só com a competência lingüística, mas com a experiência de usuário e aprendiz da própria língua materna, bem como com a realidade sócio-econômica e cultural dos aprendizes e suas perspectivas de utilização da língua aprendida, que afetam a sua motivação. / This paper reports on the studies of learning/acquisition features in Spanish for native adult learners of Brazilian Portuguese. The following literature contextualizes the study\'s concerns and seeks for watching, understanding and explaining the use of anaphoric direct object within the oral and written productions by college Brazilian learners of Spanish as a foreign language. A theoretical basis is given in for the acquisition of nonnative languages, for the role of the mother tongue in the acquisition of foreign languages and the direct object in Brazilian Portuguese and in Spanish. The oral and written production samples used were collected during Spanish classes as a foreign language within a language course at Universidade de São Paulo. They revealed that, as well as in the mother tongue and target language, there is a wide variation in the non-native production in Spanish concerning omission, filling in and the ways of filling in the anaphoric object direct gaps. Yet, it was possible to identify tendencies within this production that enable the restructuring of non-native grammar, show the importance of education in the case of Spanish as a foreign language and reveal that inner features of oral and written productions for Spanish as a foreign language are linked not only to linguistic competence but also with the mother tongue learner and user\'s background as well as the learners\' cultural and socio-economic situations and their expectations in relation to the language learned, which affect their motivation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Matilde - Tesis FINAL - FINAL - FINALLLLLL.pdf: 1941333 bytes, checksum: c75b4ce38b32e05a7bdd6382d38ba95b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-25 / The thesis researchers the way native Portuguese and Spanish speakers use objective pronouns in their speech, and proposes that, in spite of the proximity of the two languages which have a common origin from the Latin language, and in spite of the similarities both languages show in the use and functions of the direct and indirect pronouns, there is a possibility that the Brazilian Portuguese may be experiencing a syncronic historical change in the use of the objective pronouns which is not followed by the Spanish language or speakers. For this reason, the study presents a careful description of the pronouns in the two languages, resourcing to the Normative as well as to the Descriptive Grammars, in order to verify the similariteis and-or differences which are outlined in the Grammars of the two languages. This way, the analyst can compare what the prescriptive grammars prescribe, and the way the native speakers use the pronouns in each of the languages. Additionally, the data from the two grammars can then be compared in terms of what is prescribed, and what is effectively used by the speakers of the two languages. The study also analyses texts written by native Portuguese and Spanish language speakers, as well as compositions written by Brazilian learners preparing themselves to be future Spanish teachers. Based on these texts, the analyst, according to what has been proposed by Bakhtin, can then conclude that the Brazilian speakers either use the pronouns according to the prescriptive grammar, or they are replaced by another form or they are being deleted. This allow the analyst to conclude that the oscillation is dictated by the discourse genre, according to the axiological value of the utterance. Other concepts that the analyst introduces refer to the notions of ‗signal and ‗sign , the dialogical relations established in the languages, and the notions of primary, and secondary discourse genres. This way, the analyst hopes to offer to the educational community, and to the professionals who produce taching materials, that there is a clear oscillation in the use of the objective pronoun in Brazilian Portuguese the pronoun is either present, or it is deleted, or the speaker uses the subjective form of the pronoun. The analyst also concludes that this oscillation only happens in the Brazilian Portuguese, and that Brazilian speakers-learners when speaking-learning Spanish follow the Brazilian Portuguese pattern in the use of the foreign language / Este trabajo se dedica a observar cuál es el uso de los pronomes oblíquos y los pronombres personales complementarios, en la construcción lingüística del nativo brasileño e hispánico, respectivamente, planteando que aunque ambas lenguas, española y portuguesa, originarias del latín, presenten semejanzas en la existencia de los clíticos con funciones de objeto directo e indirecto, existe la posibilidad de que haya en la lengua brasilera un cambio histórico-sincrónico en el uso de los oblíquos que no es acompañado en el uso de los personales complementarios de lengua española. Para ello, se busca información sobre los pronombres clíticos de ambas lenguas consultando datos gramaticales en la Gramática Normativa, con el fin de conocer lo que la norma determina, y en la Gramática Descriptiva, con el propósito de saber el uso que los nativos dan a dichos pronombres. Los datos retirados de las dos gramáticas son comparados para distinguir la diferencia entre lo exigido en las reglas y lo que el nativo usa. También se analizan producciones escritas, en lengua materna de nativos de portugués brasilero y de lengua española, y redacciones en español como lengua extranjera de alumnos de un curso de profesorado en Brasil, concluyendo, tomando como base los criterios establecidos por Bajtín, que en el portugués brasileño hay colocación, reemplazo y ausencia de los mencionados pronombres, indicando una oscilación ocasionada por el género discursivo, siguiendo el valor axiológico que les es otorgado en el enunciado y otros conceptos del teórico, señal, signo, relaciones dialógicas y géneros discursivos primario y secundario. Con lo determinado, se intenta ofrecer una descripción sincrónica del uso de los pronombres clíticos en portugués brasilero y español a la comunidad científica, educacional y a los profesionales dedicados a producir manuales, alertando que sólo existe oscilación en la producción lingüística brasilera presencia, supresión de los pronombres estudiados o su sustitución por los pronombres personales. Actitud que se detecta reflejada en la producción en lengua extranjera, debido al valor atribuido a los referidos pronombres

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo contribuir para o estudo das especificidades da aquisição / aprendizagem da língua espanhola por falantes adultos do português brasileiro. Nele, apresentamos um estudo que busca observar, compreender e explicar o uso do objeto direto anafórico na produção oral e escrita de aprendizes brasileiros universitários de espanhol como língua estrangeira. Buscamos embasamento teórico sobre a aquisição de línguas não-nativas, sobre o lugar da língua materna na aquisição de línguas estrangeiras e sobre o objeto direto no português brasileiro e no espanhol. As amostras de produção oral e escrita utilizadas foram coletadas durante aulas de espanhol como língua estrangeira de um curso livre ministrado dentro da Universidade de São Paulo. Elas revelaram que, assim como na língua materna e na língua alvo, há grande variabilidade na produção não-nativa em espanhol no que se refere à omissão, ao preenchimento e às formas de preenchimento do objeto direto anafórico. Mesmo assim, foi possível identificar tendências nessa produção que apontam para a possibilidade de reestruturação da gramática não-nativa, mostram a importância da instrução no caso do espanhol como língua estrangeira e revelam que características próprias da produção oral e escrita em espanhol como língua estrangeira se relacionam não só com a competência lingüística, mas com a experiência de usuário e aprendiz da própria língua materna, bem como com a realidade sócio-econômica e cultural dos aprendizes e suas perspectivas de utilização da língua aprendida, que afetam a sua motivação. / This paper reports on the studies of learning/acquisition features in Spanish for native adult learners of Brazilian Portuguese. The following literature contextualizes the study\'s concerns and seeks for watching, understanding and explaining the use of anaphoric direct object within the oral and written productions by college Brazilian learners of Spanish as a foreign language. A theoretical basis is given in for the acquisition of nonnative languages, for the role of the mother tongue in the acquisition of foreign languages and the direct object in Brazilian Portuguese and in Spanish. The oral and written production samples used were collected during Spanish classes as a foreign language within a language course at Universidade de São Paulo. They revealed that, as well as in the mother tongue and target language, there is a wide variation in the non-native production in Spanish concerning omission, filling in and the ways of filling in the anaphoric object direct gaps. Yet, it was possible to identify tendencies within this production that enable the restructuring of non-native grammar, show the importance of education in the case of Spanish as a foreign language and reveal that inner features of oral and written productions for Spanish as a foreign language are linked not only to linguistic competence but also with the mother tongue learner and user\'s background as well as the learners\' cultural and socio-economic situations and their expectations in relation to the language learned, which affect their motivation.