IN ENGLISH Along growing international cooperation, multicultural interconnectedness and generally improving social situation in Europe a number of international volunteering activities is growing. Much has already been written regarding motivation for such activities as well as about general perception od necessity to help others as a component of well developer civic society but until now there has not been described in detail how such long term international volunteering experience is perceived by volunteers themselves. This Diploma Thesis is a qualitative case study analysing experience of volunteering of six international volunteers from the European Union countries as well as from the countries out of the European Union. The research of their opinion and attitudes shows how they in relation with those opinion value benefits and losses in the Framework of their volunteering experience. In the triangualtion to the perspective of the volunteers, a perspective of all involved pupils and teachers is further analysed. Volunteers'experience is studied based on semi structured interviews, semantic diferential, time lines and their authorial products. To assess the perspective of pupils who reguraly met with the volunteers two anonymous questionnaires were issued. The perspective of involved teachers...

The present study evaluates the language improvement courses in the undergraduate curriculum of the Department of English Language Teaching (ELT) at Eastern Mediterranean University. The language improvement courses are: Oral Communication Skills I and II, Reading Skills I, II, and Advanced Reading Skills, Writing Skills I, II and Advanced Writing Skills, and English Grammar I and II. In this evaluation study, the adapted version of Bellon and Handler&rsquo / s (1982) curriculum evaluation model was employed. The participants of the study were six instructors teaching the language improvement courses and students enrolled in these courses. The data, both qualitative and quantitative, were collected through course evaluation questionnaires for students, interviews with students and teachers, classroom observations, and examination of relevant written documents such as course policy sheets, course materials, and assessment tools used in the courses. The results of the study show that generally the language improvement courses were effective in terms of five aspects specified in the evaluation model employed in the study, as perceived by the students and the instructors. However, the students and the instructors suggested making some changes to the existing language improvement courses to make them more effective and better adjusted to the students&rsquo / needs and expectations. Some important conclusions drawn and recommendations made were: Practice (i.e. practice and production) component in the language improvement courses should be enhanced, a wider variety of authentic materials should be used in the courses, various methods and activities should be utilized in teaching-learning process, and intra-subject and inter-subject relationships (i.e. continuity and coherence) between or among the courses need to be strengthened.

Research paper (M.A.)--Cardinal Stritch College--Milwaukee, 1977. / A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Education (Education of Learning Disabled Children). Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-75).

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-20T12:21:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1815599 bytes, checksum: 9137de06af69475646ea46666aac3298 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-20T12:21:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1815599 bytes, checksum: 9137de06af69475646ea46666aac3298 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-13 / Using technology is still a great challenge to many teachers in their work development. Questions and reflections about what are the real education power of technology to the teaching/learning process and how they can influence the pedagogical actions are present on educacional research. This way, this work has as objective evaluate the use of a digital tool of cartoon production, the TOONDOO, in English language teaching, as this textual genre (HQs) stimulates reading, writing and its production process which involv criativity in elabaration of settings and characters which should be associated to verbal and non-verbal texts, promoting a relation to the object of studying, stimulating the imagination in knowledge acquisition. The research was developed with 20 students of 6th and 7th of a public high school in Recife. It’s a research-in-action, once it plans the improvement of a practice, it aplies, observes and describes the action effects, and evaluated the results. Among the teorical references are Moran (2013), Vergueiro (2009), Xavier (2007) and others. We hope that the results of this study stimulates other profissionals of educacional area to use technology and HQs as a tool in their teaching/learning process of foreign language and other subjects. / O uso das tecnologias ainda se apresenta como um desafio para muitos professores no desenvolvimento do trabalho docente. Questionamentos e reflexões sobre quais são os reais potenciais educativos das tecnologias para o processo de ensino-aprendizagem e de que forma elas podem influenciar as ações pedagógicas estão presentes nas pesquisas educacionais. Nesse sentido, este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar o uso de uma ferramenta digital de fabricação de quadrinhos, o TOONDOO, no ensino de língua inglesa, já que esse gênero textual (HQs) motiva a leitura e a escrita e seu processo de produção envolve a criatividade na elaboração de cenários e personagens que devem ser associados ao texto verbal e não verbal, promovendo relação com o objeto estudado, estimulando a imaginação na aquisição do conhecimento. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida com 20 alunos do 6º e 7º anos do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública, localizada na cidade do Recife. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-ação, visto que planeja a melhoria de uma prática, aplica, monitora e descreve os efeitos da ação, avaliando seus resultados. Dentre os referenciais teóricos, estão Moran (2013), Vergueiro (2009) e Xavier (2007), entre outros. Esperamos que os resultados deste estudo motivem outros profissionais da área de educação a utilizar as tecnologias e as HQs como ferramentas no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras, como também de outras disciplinas.

Orientador: Carmen Zink Bolonhini / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T01:35:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silveira_MaraRegina_M.pdf: 1063604 bytes, checksum: 34066c6855a50f12ce6fbe4e568573d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: As mudanças demográficas apresentam o Brasil como um país em processo de envelhecimento, a discussão sobre o envelhecimento populacional começa a emergir em várias ciências, justificando o desenvolvimento de pesquisas como a que propomos, objetivando explorar a constituição e o uso do imaginário do idoso veiculados pela mídia. De forma mais específica, buscamos identificar a imagem do idoso na propaganda, por ser a comunicação publicitária utilizada como indicador, produto e reflexo dos valores culturais da sociedade. Este trabalho propõe a investigação sobre a constituição do idoso hoje como subsídio para o ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira (LE) a este público, pois ainda são escassas as oportunidades de estudar uma LE em um ambiente voltado às necessidades das pessoas nesta faixa etária. O corpus recorta a imagem do idoso em alguns anúncios publicitários veiculados pela mídia impressa, observando os mecanismos discursivos acionados em tais textos, com apoio da Análise de Discurso Materialista, representados aqui pelos pensamentos de Michel Pêcheux e Jacqueline Authier-Revuz, na França, e Eni Orlandi, no Brasil, buscando investigar as representações do idoso presentes no imaginário de nossa sociedade e expressas em propagandas publicadas em veículos de mídia de grande circulação nacional. Além disso, analisaremos também as representações dos idosos presentes na mídia, a partir do discurso dos alunos do Centro de Línguas de Jundiaí/SP - Projeto CLITI (Culturas da Língua Inglesa para a Terceira Idade) sobre si mesmos e sobre elementos da prática de aprendizagem de uma LE, como forma de também analisar como o idoso vê ou se vê nesse processo de identificação através da imagem do idoso produzida pela via midiática. Resultam dessas observações duas formas-sujeito distintas, uma que mimetiza os ideais da juventude, aqui chamada de "novo velho" e outra, ainda constituída à margem da sociedade e referência para as políticas públicas, aqui chamada de "idoso-inclusão". Para o ensino de LE e outras áreas sociais que lidam com idosos, nossa análise nos permitiu observar representações que apontam para um imaginário em constante reformulação e passível de equívocos, onde muitas vezes os idosos são submetidos a tratamentos infantilizados, devido à sua condição de dependência e fragilidade. / Abstract: Brazil is going through demographical changes, as well as through an aging process. The discussion upon the populational aging begins to emerge in several sciences, which justifies the development of researches such as this one. Our research aims at exploring the building and the use of the elderly image in the media. Our search is to identify the elderly image through advertisements, because the media communication is used as indicator, product and reflection of the society's cultural values. This project aims at investigating the elderly constitution nowadays as proof to the English language teaching to this public, due to the lack of opportunities to study a foreign language in an environment appropriate to the specific needs of this public. Our corpus uses the elderly image in some advertisements published in magazines in Brazil. Our search is about the discoursive mecanisms inside these texts, using the support of the Materialistic Discourse Analysis, here represented by the thoughts of Michel Pêcheux and Jacqueline Authier-Revuz, from France, and Eni Orlandi, from Brazil. We aim to investigate the elderly representations - shown in advertisements in nationwide media - as part of the imaginary in our society. Also, we are going to analyze the elderly media representations through the CLITI Project students' discourse about themselves and about the English language learning process. Our objective is analyse how the elderly see this process or see themselves in this identification process triggered by the media. From these observations we distinguish two different subject forms, one that mimes the ideals of youth, hereby called "new old" and another, built at the margin of the society and also reference to public politics, hereby called "elderly". Teaching EFL and other social areas that deal with elderly have allowed watching representations that aim to an imagery in constant reformulation and susceptible to misunderstandings, where many times the elderly are submitted to childish treatments due to their condition of dependence and fragility. / Mestrado / Lingua Estrangeira / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

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The dissertation deals with foreign language teaching methods at the Primary School in the Czech, English and German environment. It includes the summary of the present basic knowledge about the foreign language teaching methods generally both in the Czech, English and German environment. Subsequently there has been presented and analysed the real use of foreign language teaching methods at the Czech Primary School at present. In conclusion there has been drawn further suggestion for a possible appropriate future development of the foreign language teaching methods at the Czech Primary School based on the research too.

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This thesis deals with the possibilities of using ICT in English language teaching at primary school. The theoretical part deals with the definition of the concept of ICT, ways of implementing ICT in teaching, further describes the possible advantages and disadvantages of using ICT in teaching at primary school and mentions the didactic functions of ICT and general education and language objectives supported by technologies. The practical part of this thesis presents ten specific activities using ICT in English language lessons at primary school. These activities are always properly described in terms of educational objectives, ways of their realization and in the end are reflected. Each activity was tested in practice in advance. The research carried out in this thesis deals with the use of ICT among teachers at an elementary school in Pilsen and reflects their opinion on technologies and their future in English language teaching at primary school.