Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-12-19T13:18:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Ribeiro Pessôa_.pdf: 1289142 bytes, checksum: f4e7f7469fb96423567c077ffa03dbf5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-19T13:18:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Ribeiro Pessôa_.pdf: 1289142 bytes, checksum: f4e7f7469fb96423567c077ffa03dbf5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-10-31 / Nenhuma / O feedback corretivo oral, em uma perspectiva sociocultural, é entendido como um elemento central para professores de línguas estrangeiras ajudarem o aprendiz a alcançar a autorregulação. Uma vez que o feedback corretivo possibilita a construção conjunta de uma zona de desenvolvimento proximal (ZDP), enfatiza-se a importância de variar os tipos de feedback oferecidos, reformuladores e elicitativos, favorecendo a estes, pois ajudam o aprendiz a assumir a responsabilidade pela correção de seus próprios erros. Este estudo objetiva contribuir para o desenvolvimento profissional de docentes de inglês como língua estrangeira e, conforme a perspectiva sociocultural, abordar e desenvolver conceitos científicos sobre o feedback corretivo oral. A investigação envolveu duas professoras de língua inglesa de uma escola pública em uma pesquisa-ação colaborativa, durante um semestre letivo. O estudo explora a pesquisa-ação colaborativa, estreitamente relacionada aos conceitos socioculturais da mediação e da ZDP, e propõe a zona de desenvolvimento proximal de docentes de língua estrangeira (ZDPD-LE), definida como a distância entre o que um professor de língua estrangeira faz em sua sala de aula e o que pode fazer quando estrategicamente mediado. A pesquisa fez uso da triangulação para a coleta e a análise dos dados, os quais foram coletados por meio de entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas, observações em sala de aula, gravações em áudio e vídeo das aulas observadas, sessões autoscópicas e uma entrevista em grupo não estruturada. A análise dos dados foi orientada pela análise de conteúdo e pela análise da interação. Os resultados evidenciaram que, antes da pesquisa-ação colaborativa, as duas professoras utilizavam, predominantemente, feedback reformulador, especialmente recast, e eram contrárias ao fornecimento de feedback corretivo imediato. Além disso, elas ofereciam apenas alguns dos vários tipos de feedback corretivo. Os resultados do estudo revelaram que as professoras participantes internalizaram conceitos científicos e, como consequência, alteraram suas compreensões e o modo como fornecem feedback corretivo oral. Os resultados desta investigação ressaltam a importância da implementação de oportunidades, tais como as propiciadas por uma pesquisa-ação colaborativa, para professores em serviço se engajarem e refletirem sobre suas práticas de feedback corretivo oral, como forma de apoiar e promover o desenvolvimento profissional de professores de inglês como língua estrangeira. / Oral corrective feedback, from a sociocultural perspective, is understood as a pivotal element in how foreign language teachers can assist a learner to achieve self-regulation. As corrective feedback enables the joint construction of a zone of proximal development (ZPD), it is emphasized the importance of varying the types of feedback offered, reformulations and prompts, favoring the latter, as they help learners assume responsibility for correcting their own errors. This study aims at contributing to English as a foreign language teachers’ professional development and, within a sociocultural perspective, intends to approach and develop scientific concepts about oral corrective feedback. The study engaged two teachers of English as a foreign language, from a public language school, in a collaborative action research, during a school semester. The study explores collaborative action research, as closely related to the sociocultural concepts of mediation and ZPD. It thereby proposes the zone of proximal foreign language teacher development (ZPFLTD), defined as the distance between what a foreign language teacher does in his/her classroom and what he/she can do when strategically mediated. The study used a triangulation design for data collection and analysis. Data were collected by means of semi-structured individual interviews, classroom observations, audio and video recordings of the observed lessons, teacher stimulated recall interviews, and an unstructured group interview. Data analysis was informed by using content analysis and interaction analysis. The results showed that prior to the collaborative action research, both teachers predominantly used reformulations, especially recast, and were against the provision of immediate oral corrective feedback. Furthermore, they provided only some of the various feedback types. The results of the study revealed the participant teachers internalized scientific concepts, and therefore, changed their understanding and the way they furnished oral corrective feedback. The findings of this study highlight the importance of implementing opportunities, such as those propitiated by a collaborative action research, for in-service teachers engage with and reflect on their oral corrective feedback practices, as a supportive and effective way to promote the professional development of teachers of English as a foreign language.

Academic achievement in the context of the school necessarily involves a whole range of factors. The education system and schools in particular, have assumed the primacy of cognitive attributions in the learner over that of any other factors in the shaping and honing of individual academic achievement. However, the literature revealed that the learning process within the school environment feeds on a plethora of explanations for academic success or otherwise. Much work by researchers has focused on factors other than the cognitive, in an attempt to explain good or weak academic achievement. Certainly the separation of the cognitive from the affective in terms of achievement is impractical, as revealed by the literature. However the literature also contradicts received wisdom which suggests the omniscience of the cognitive as an explanatory tool for academic performance. This investigation focused on factors other than the cognitive in order to seek reasons for academic success. Three important affective factors were selected from the literature in order to ascertain whether these factors played a role in academic achievement or indeed if there was a relationship between these factors and scholastic success or otherwise. An empirical investigation was conducted which consisted primarily of a questionnaire for form four students in English classes. The questionnaire consisted of four sections with a total of 81 items. It was completed by 271 students attending five schools in Mutare Zimbabwe. Statistical analyses revealed that the affective factors attitudes towards English, self-concepts of academic ability and student perceptions of their teachers of English correlated significantly. The analyses also revealed that the selected factors took up 33% of the variance and that within that 33% the area in which students lived was the most important factor contributing to academic achievement whilst I.Q. and student self-concept of academic ability followed closely. The results of the literature study and the empirical investigation demonstrated that there are factors other than the cognitive which are important in terms of academic success in school As a result recommendations were made regarding school based programmes where the aim is to enhance affective factors and therefore achievement. / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (Psychology of Education)

This qualitative, longitudinal study followed four first-year MA TESOL students through their initial year in a teacher training program with the goal of determining whether their overall beliefs about teaching and learning changed over time as a result of program curriculum and other outside factors. An analysis of semi-structured interviews with each participant, conducted one to two times per quarter, revealed that participants' beliefs appeared to evolve as a result of coursework and teaching practice. Participants' identities as teachers also showed signs of evolution and development. The participants attributed the majority of their development to hands-on teaching practice, though there was evidence that they began to integrate more theoretical aspects of program curriculum by the end of the year. However, the participants also demonstrated a lack of interest in theoretical and research-related coursework that persisted throughout their first year. Participants' lack of interest and stress brought on by unfamiliar material may have limited the amount of integration of research and theory into their practice. Findings suggest a mismatch between program goals and student goals, with students being focused on teaching practice and the program being focused on both the practical and theoretical aspects of the curriculum.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Danie Marcelo de Jesus.pdf: 1341177 bytes, checksum: 1805430cc41b9e53059a5e20484ac8f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The sweeping changes taking place in society in the last decades have been requiring new configurations in educational practices. Teachers and students are invited to attend learning environments mediated by computer. Taking this need into account, this study contemplates the distance education context and aims at analyzing reculturing, restructuring and retiming processes (Fullan, 1996) in teacher-students discourse at Teachers Links Programme at PUCSP, intended for state school teachers of English. The main theoretical underpinning for the research is provided by studies of Fullan (1996), Hannay & Ross (1997) about reculturing, restructuring and retiming processes. The study also addresses the concept of social and teaching presence by Garrison & Anderson (2003). The research questions are the following: 1) How do teachers discourses collaborate for teachers-students live deeply possible reculturing, restructuring and retiming processes? 2) What evidence of reculturing, restructuring and retiming processes can be seen, during the process of learning in the teachers-students messages? The research methodology is based on interpretative approach with analyzing discussion forums and interviews with the participants. Results suggest some linguistic data that can characterize processes of reculturing, structuring and retiming processes in the teachers-students discourses / As transformações ocorridas na sociedade nas últimas décadas vêm sugerindo novas configurações nas práticas educacionais. Professores e alunos são convidados a participar de ambiente de aprendizagem mediado por computador. Considerando esse cenário, este trabalho se insere no contexto de Educação a distância e tem como finalidade analisar indícios de processo de reculturação, reestruturação e reorganização temporal (Fullan, 1996) no discurso de professores-alunos do Programa Teachers Links da PUC-SP, dirigido a professores de inglês de escolas públicas. O trabalho encontrou suporte teórico nos estudos de Fullan (1996), Hannay & Ross (1997) sobre o conceito de reculturação, reestruturação e reorganização temporal. Esta pesquisa também discute o conceito de presença social e de ensino de Garrison & Anderson (2003). As questões que nortearam a pesquisa foram as seguintes: 1) De que forma o discurso das professoras colabora para que os discentes vivenciem possíveis processos de reculturação, reestruturação e reorganização temporal? 2) Que possíveis indícios de reculturação, reestruturação e reorganização temporal podem ser observados, durante o processo de aprendizagem nas mensagens dos professores-alunos? A metodologia de pesquisa teve uma abordagem interpretativa com análise das interações em fóruns de discussão e entrevistas com os participantes. Os resultados sugerem algumas evidências lingüísticas que podem ser sinalizadores de processos de reculturação, reestruturação e reorganização temporal no discurso dos professores-alunos

This project addresses the needs of the adult learner. The adult learner referred to in; this project comes from two distinguishable groups. One group of adult learners consists of the ESL students who attend adult school or community-based English programs. The other group of adult learners consists of the teachers within adult education ESL programs who themselves are students as they participate in professional development workshops.