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This study examined the relationship of managers' relational messages with employees' communication satisfaction, as well as compliance-gaining requests and participants gender in superior-subordinate communication.

Includes bibliographical references. / An hypothesised relationship between levels of proficiency in English of ESL (English as a Second Language) students and the approaches to learning which they adopt, in situations in which English is the language of instruction, is the focus of this study. An attempt was made to identify the extent to which students, who are required to learn in a second language, adopt undesirable approaches to learning as a consequence of linguistic or cultural factors. Such students appear to adopt reproductive strategies to pass examinations and retain only isolated pieces of information for practical application. In a sense, they graduate but remain unqualified. Quantitative responses of 307 students, relating to their contextualised perceptions of the demands of the learning situation, were gathered and analysed using a learning approach categorisation procedure. Qualitative responses of 120 students, relating to their descriptions of the context and content of learning, were gathered in semi-structured interviews to supplement and enrich the quantitive data collected. Levels of proficiency in the language of instruction were measured using integrative tests of comprehension of spoken discourse and written texts presented in actual lecture situations. Students were given the opportunity to rate the lectures and reading material from which they were expected to learn and self-esteem was measured as a construct considered likely to affect perceptions of the demands of the learning situation. Concurrently with the above, a group of students from each of 3 year groups was taught a new topic over a short series of lectures and tested for understanding in the language of instruction. Balanced groups, from each of the 3 year groups, were taught the same topic and tested for understanding in the mother-tongue. This procedure was subsequently replicated with a second topic of similar complexity, across all three year groups, with languages switched. Critical aspects of the teaching/learning situation were kept constant. These procedures provided compelling evidence, after analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, of a relationship between proficiency in the language of instruction and the ways in which students engage in learning tasks. Difficulty with the language of instruction appears to increase the demands of the learning situation and the likelihood of adopting reproducing strategies, which are not normally associated with success in terms of learning outcomes.

This thesis is a two-pronged analysis of the cultural content in two instructional materials series presently meant for use in the English language instruction in Swedish secondary education, and it integrates an examination of surface and deep cultural content with an ideology analysis focused on the representation of nations and the international world. The driving impetus of this thesis is an interest in the representation of culture meeting the students in their instruction. A theoretical framework has been used with perspectives on surface and deep culture, intercultural communicative competence, and theories of nationalism as an ideology. The study shows that the Swedish materials promote the development of communication skills across cultural boundaries to a greater extent than some international research would suggest, but confirms results from other related studies. The majority of the cultural content was found to be surface-level and is best understood as objective or static topics of culture which do little to prepare the readers to be critical, intercultural citizens. The materials were found to be strongly structured around the nation-state, and the argument is made that the materials feature international content with a national-perspective. The materials were also found to reproduce ethno- national sentiment when representing specifically the United States and Britain, where a great deal of the content is focused. This study shows that a combination of these two approaches provides a more complete consideration of the materials and produces important results, not only for the scholarly community, but for teachers and instructional material design.

The purpose of this study was basically twofold: 1) to develop an evaluative instrument to measure interpersonal communicative competence, and 2) to determine its relationship to three other supervisory variables—demographic characteristics, self-actualization, and leader behavior. Hypotheses testing, via the Pearson correlation coefficient, indicated the following relationships between interpersonal communicative competence (as measured by the IICC) and supervisory demographics, self-actualization (as measured by the POI), and leader behavior (as measured by the SBDQ): 1) The age of the supervisor was negatively related to the IICC at the .001 level of statistical significance. 2) Years of formal education was positively related to the IICC at the .001 level. 3) The sex of the supervisor (females scoring higher) was related to the IICC at the .01 level. 4) No significant relationship existed between years of supervisory experience and the IICC. 5) Six scales of the POI (I, Ex, Fr, S, A, C) were related to the IICC at the .001 level of statistical significance, one scale (Sy) at the .01 level and two scales (Tc, Sa) at the .05 level. Three scales (SAV, Sr, Nc) were not significantly related to the IICC. 6) No significant relationship existed between the IICC and the two dimensions of leader behavior—structure and consideration.

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Master of Arts / Department of Modern Languages / Douglas K. Benson / Students have opportunity to reach learner autonomy and achieve real world applications utilizing communicative competence, a learner centered environment and comprehensible input, incorporated into a unit for student success. The acquisition of language and culture is facilitated in the classroom environment with low affective filters and comprehensible input combining different learning strategies. The activities in this cultural thematic art unit engage student’s interest and activate his or her background knowledge, making meaningful connections with the unit content and their personal lives. Literature, paintings, grammar and vocabulary enable students to build communicative competence in L2. Language learners collaborate and engage in the target language while simultaneously learning about literature, history and culture and learning how artists and writers represent empathy for others as they process words by various Spanish speakers. Additionally, authentic texts and the use of technology enhance students’ linguistic performance. The unit begins with my teaching philosophy followed by a sequence of activities that allow students to process language while they study the consequences of war on those who are affected by it, and a brief section on potential learning outcomes for those who participate in the activities.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Paternostro Morales.pdf: 1615153 bytes, checksum: 9936575eb17123a9093f69c5f5e9634e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation mastership made on PostGraduation Studies of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, is a study of the organization and function of the orality as a language modality and also a study of the pedagogical aplication importance. Tradicionaly, the school has priviledged the writing as a study and teaching object. In these last years, however the development of linguistic investigation lines has given a bigger orality recognition, detaching its place as communicative interaction. Thus, the teaching instruction of the orality is more and more recognized and dispensable. The general objective of the study is to cooperate with the increasement of the linguistical development, proposing and discussing ways of pedagical approach in orality, as a social and discoursive practical. The specifcs objectives are: 1) identification of the structural and oral modality characteristics; 2) to show the relevance of the dialogical relation between orality and readind; 3) to reiterate the importance of the situacional, argumentation for a communicative interaction; 4) to make possible the observation of the linguistical variants, understanding and respecting theirs forming and using; 5) to present a proposal of orality teaching, beginning in a process of rewriting and from the characteristics of the investigation, looking at student communicative competence development. Two views give support to this research: The Conversation Analysis and the Interactional Sociolinguistic. The first one based the study of organization and the construction of the oral speech as a practice essentialy in context, the second one supported the understanding of the language complexity and theirs modalities as phenomenons interactives and dynamics / Esta dissertação de mestrado, realizada no Programa de Estudos Pós- Graduados da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, faz um estudo da organização e funcionamento da oralidade como modalidade de língua e da importância de sua aplicação pedagógica. Tradicionalmente, a escola tem privilegiado a escrita como objeto de estudo e de ensino. Nos últimos anos, no entanto, o desenvolvimento de linhas de investigação lingüística tem possibilitado maior reconhecimento da oralidade, destacando seu papel como forma de interação comunicativa. Assim, a introdução do ensino da oralidade tem sido cada vez mais reconhecida como necessária. Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral contribuir para uma perspectiva de formação lingüística mais ampla, propondo e discutindo caminhos para a abordagem pedagógica da oralidade como prática social e discursiva. Os objetivos específicos são: 1) identificar as características estruturais e funcionais da modalidade oral; 2) mostrar a relevância da relação dialógica entre oralidade e escrita; 3) reiterar a importância da contextualização situacional para a interação comunicativa; 4) possibilitar a observação das variantes lingüísticas, compreendendo e respeitando sua formação e uso; 5) apresentar uma proposta para o ensino da oralidade, a partir do processo de retextualização e dos dados obtidos nesta investigação, visando ao desenvolvimento da competência comunicativa do aluno. Duas teorias dão sustentação a esta pesquisa: a Análise da Conversação e a Sociolingüística Interacional. A primeira fundamentou o estudo da organização e construção do discurso oral, como pratica essencialmente contextualizada; a segunda subsidiou o entendimento da complexidade da língua e de suas modalidades como fenômenos interativos e dinâmicos

Submitted by Luis Ricardo Andrade da Silva (lrasilva@uefs.br) on 2017-11-28T23:13:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o - Cacilda.pdf: 7425322 bytes, checksum: cbdb11713a263575d4d325f5cff062f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-28T23:13:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o - Cacilda.pdf: 7425322 bytes, checksum: cbdb11713a263575d4d325f5cff062f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-12 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / This educational intervention proposal is the product of Course Completion performed in the scope of the Professional Master of Arts (PROFLETRAS) of the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). It consists of applying listening activities of formal and informal testimonials in order to promote reflection on the language and contribute to the development of oral communication skills of the students, so necessary for the socio-affective practice of the individual. These reflections also undergo retextualization activities, they discuss themes such as linguistic diversity and the relations between speech and writing in an approach that represents an improvement when considering the guidelines introduced by the textbooks. The proposal in question is based on the design of interactive language - dialogue space that enables social practice of all kinds of acts - contrary to the approach of orality in the classroom as an excuse to practice reading and writing Marcuschi (1997, 2005a , 2005b); Marcuschi and Dion?sio (2007); Dolz; Schneuwly (2004); Bentes (2010); BRAZIL (1997, 1998); Oliveira (2012); Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Bronckart (2003); Machado (2007). The didactic sequence (DS) - structured in modules - was applied to a group of 6th grade of elementary level from a public school of S?o Domingos in the state of Bahia, during the period of two months, totalizing 26h/classes. The material obtained in the DS and analyzed in this work - audio, video and written texts ? were obtained from the study subjects. The results of the intervention point that working with oral communication in the classroom, from the active listening texts, is productive and that the choice of testimony genre sparked interest and developed the creativity of students, becoming apparent in their productions, their progress regarding the oral competence. It is believed that if the DS were applied in greater time it would give more significant results. The research material is available in a repository for those who are interested in the discussions on the teaching of orality and concerned about the development of the oral competence of their students. The idea is that the proposal presented here add to other orality teaching proposals specifically, and mother tongue teaching, more broadly, in order to improve basic education and the life quality of students, expanding their communicative competence and making them, therefore, able to move around within the society without difficulty, mastering the resources and language mechanisms, understanding the meanings and senses that come to her. / Esta proposta de interven??o pedag?gica ? produto do Trabalho de Conclus?o de Curso realizado no ?mbito do Mestrado Profissional em Letras (PROFLETRAS) da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS). Consiste na aplica??o de atividades de escuta de depoimentos formais e informais, a fim de promover reflex?es sobre a l?ngua, colaborando para o desenvolvimento da compet?ncia comunicativa oral dos alunos, t?o necess?ria ? pr?tica social efetiva do indiv?duo. Essas reflex?es passam tamb?m por atividades de retextualiza??o, discutindo temas como diversidade lingu?stica e rela??es entre fala e escrita, numa abordagem que representa um avan?o, quando se consideram as orienta??es trazidas pelos livros did?ticos. A proposi??o em quest?o se fundamenta na concep??o de l?ngua interativa, contr?ria ? abordagem da oralidade em sala de aula como pretexto para a pr?tica de leitura e escrita. Nesse sentido, o aporte te?rico vem de estudos dos PCN (1997), (1998); Marcuschi (1997, 2005a, 2005b); Marcuschi e Dion?sio (2007); Dolz; Schneuwly (2004); Bentes (2010); BRASIL (1997, 1998); Oliveira (2012); Bortoni-Ricardo (2004), Bronckart, (2003); Machado (2007). A sequ?ncia did?tica (SD) foi aplicada em uma turma do 6? ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola municipal de S?o Domingos, Bahia, no per?odo de dois meses, totalizando 26h/aulas. O material obtido na SD e analisado nesta disserta??o trata-se de ?udios, v?deos e retextualiza??es, obtidos dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Os resultados da interven??o apontam que o trabalho com a oralidade em sala de aula, a partir da escuta ativa de textos ? produtivo e que a escolha do g?nero depoimento despertou o interesse e desenvolveu a criatividade dos alunos, ficando evidente, em suas produ??es, seu avan?o no que diz respeito ? compet?ncia oral. Acredita-se que, aplicada em maior espa?o de tempo, a SD daria resultados ainda mais significativos. O material da pesquisa fica dispon?vel em um reposit?rio para quem tenha interesse nas discuss?es sobre ensino de oralidade e se preocupe com o desenvolvimento da compet?ncia oral de seus alunos. A ideia ? que a proposta aqui apresentada some-se a outras propostas de ensino de oralidade, mais especificamente, e de ensino de l?ngua materna, de maneira mais ampla, tendo em vista a melhoria da Educa??o B?sica e da qualidade de vida dos alunos, ampliando-lhes a compet?ncia comunicativa e tornando-os, com isso, capazes de movimentar-se, sem maiores dificuldades, dentro da sociedade, dominando os recursos e mecanismos da l?ngua, compreendendo os significados e sentidos que chegam at? ela.

L’agir des enseignants de français langue étrangère au Botswana met en avant le développement des compétences écrites des élèves. Les activités orales servent de moyens pour systématiser les savoirs linguistiques. Or, dans un contexte où l’objectif d’enseigner le français vise le développement de la compétence de communication, l’oral est objet et moyen d’enseignement. L’objectif de cette recherche est de savoir dans quelle mesure une formation à la méthodologie d’enseignement de l’oral permettrait d’améliorer l’agir enseignant afin de développer les compétences orales des élèves. Pour ce faire, nous proposons un dispositif de formation à l’enseignement de l’oral sous forme de séquence didactique. Il s’appuie sur les principes de l’approche communicative/actionnelle, ainsi que des postures d’étayages développées par Bucheton (2009). L’approche clinique/expérimentale nous permet, dans une perspective comparative, d’observer et de filmer l’action enseignante, sans puis avec ce dispositif, afin de déterminer les moyens mis en œuvre par les enseignants pour enseigner l’oral. Les entretiens d’autoconfrontation simple et d’alloconfrontation nous donnent l’accès aux motifs qui poussent les enseignants à agir. Les résultats indiquent que la seule stratégie discursive employée par les enseignants, l’alternance codique, détermine la posture d’étayage qu’ils adoptent et par conséquent le développement des compétences orales des élèves. Il est, de ce fait, primordial si l’on veut former les enseignants à l’enseignement de l’oral dans un contexte multilingue, d’y intégrer la didactique de l’alternance codique. / Teacher action in french as a foreign language classrooms of Botswana concentrates on the development of learners’ written skills. Oral activities are used to reinforce the teaching of grammar. However, in a context where language is taught for the purpose of developing learner’s communicative competence, oral skills constitute the means and the end. This research seeks to determine in what way the training of teachers to the didactics of oral skills could improve teacher action in order to develop learner’s oral skills. We therefore propose a training model to teachers, which is inspired by the communicative/task based learning. The clinical/experimental approach, is used to observe and video record teachers in action: first without the training model and then with the training model. Autoconfrontation and alloconfrontation interviews help understand the motives behind teacher’s action. The results indicate that, code switching; the only discourse strategy used by teachers, determines the posture that they adopt and consequently the development of learners’ oral skills. It is as a result important, if we want to train teachers on how to teach oral skills in a multilingual context, to integrate the didactics of code switching to the training model.