Orientador: Matilde Virginia Ricardi Scaramucci / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T16:52:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vicentini_MonicaPanigassi_M.pdf: 6305430 bytes, checksum: a8299defea0fd6bb1fec0846eb1a63f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio passou a ser um mecanismo único de acesso ao ensino superior em 2009 e, como tal, tornou-se um exame de alta relevância para aqueles que almejam uma vaga no ensino superior público. Essa nova condição dá ao exame potencial para exercer efeitos no ensino que o precede. Esse impacto é um fenômeno denominado pela literatura de "efeito retroativo". O fenômeno é de grande interesse de pesquisadores da área de avaliação, na medida em que permite entender melhor a relação de exames com práticas de ensino e com a aprendizagem, com implicações para o aprimoramento dos exames. Apesar de alguns estudos sobre efeito retroativo terem sido realizados em contexto brasileiro, há uma lacuna no que se refere ao efeito retroativo da prova de redação do ENEM no processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Dessa forma, esta dissertação procurou suprir essa lacuna, investigando a influência desse exame nas práticas de ensinar de duas professoras de terceiro ano do ensino médio, sendo uma delas do ensino público e a outra do ensino privado. Escolhemos o terceiro ano por ser de conhecimento geral que essa etapa do ensino básico é diretamente influenciada pelos vestibulares. Com a proposta de uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho etnográfico, observamos práticas de sala de aula, fizemos anotações de campo e entrevistamos professoras e alunos, triangulando esses dados com a análise de documentos oficiais do exame. Nossos resultados mostram existência de efeito retroativo nas percepções, atitudes e práticas da professora da escola privada; no contexto da escola pública, entretanto, esse efeito se dá apenas nas percepções e atitudes da professora, ou seja, em seu discurso, mas não em sua prática. Fatores diversos são responsáveis por esses resultados (WATANABE, 2004). Enquanto na escola privada, fatores relativos ao teste propriamente dito, tais como sua natureza, formato e habilidade avaliada favorecem a existência do efeito, o mesmo não acontece na escola pública. Fatores pessoais, tais como as crenças e o grau de conhecimento sobre o exame, também são determinantes na ocorrência de efeitos. A dimensão de valor, ou seja, avaliar um efeito como positivo ou negativo, questão bastante complexa dentro dos estudos sobre efeito retroativo, é igualmente abordada neste trabalho, mostrando que esse julgamento depende de quem faz a apreciação (ALDERSON, 1992). Professora e alunos da escola privada, por exemplo, avaliam positivamente a abordagem de ensino para o ENEM utilizada na escola, ao passo que, a nosso ver, o treinamento de estratégias para a realização do exame é negativo. Nossos resultados confirmam a hipótese levantada em outros estudos de que um mesmo teste exerce efeitos distintos, de maior ou menor intensidade, em alguns professores e alunos e não necessariamente em outros. Este trabalho, além de cumprir com o objetivo de contribuir com a área de estudos sobre efeito retroativo e de colocar o ENEM em discussão, aponta para a necessidade da ampliação do número de pesquisas sobre efeito retroativo no contexto da prova de redação do exame / Abstract: The Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio ¿ a Brazilian high school examination known as ENEM ¿, which was officially a nationwide achievement test, became an entrance examination in 2009. Along with that, it has also become a high-stakes test for those who seek admission to the Brazilian public universities. This new status provides great potential for ENEM to cause washback on the process of teaching and learning. This impact is of great concern to testing and assessment researchers since the study of washback can lead to debates about teaching and learning and to refinements of the examinations. Although some washback studies have been conducted in the Brazilian context, there is a lack of studies regarding the washback of ENEM¿s writing test on teaching and learning. Therefore, this research has sought to fill this gap by investigating the washback of the writing test on the teaching practices of two third-grade high school teachers, one from a public school and the other from a private school. We chose the third year of high school because it is known that, in Brazil, this stage is directly influenced by entrance examinations. We have run a qualitative study based on ethnographic instruments such as classroom observations, field notes and interviews with the teachers and with some of their students. Our findings reveal the existence of washback on the private-school teacher¿s perceptions, attitudes and practices; in the public school, however, washback is present only on the teacher¿s perceptions and attitude, that is, in her discourse, but not in her practice. Different factors mediate the process of washback being generated (WATANABE, 2004). While in the private school, test-related factors, such as its nature, format and skills being tested facilitate the existence of washback, the same does not happen in the public school. Personal factors such as teachers¿ beliefs and the extent to which teachers know the test also determine the occurrence or absence of washback in both contexts. The dimension of value, which means, the evaluation of washback as positive or negative, a complex matter in the studies of washback, is also addressed in this research. The study confirms that the value depends on the people who the evaluation is for (ALDERSON 1992). The private school teacher and her students, for instance, agree on the beneficial effect of teaching to ENEM, whereas this study sees the same approach as strategy coaching and, therefore, harmful. Our results also confirm the hypothesis that the same test can cause different effects, of higher or lower intensities, in some teachers and students, but not in others. In addition to contributing to the area of study and to putting ENEM into discussion, this dissertation points out to the necessity of more washback research about the writing test in ENEM / Mestrado / Linguagem e Educação / Mestra em Linguística Aplicada

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This project addresses writing instruction by teaching journal writing, interactive writing, and poetry instruction to Koreans in the English-as-a-foreign language situation. Writing and indentity construction and writing conferences are also addressed. The curriculum is designed for EFL teachers in Korea at the target-teaching level grades 3-6.

In 2016 employers hiring four-year college graduates indicate that 27.8% have deficiencies in written communication. Postsecondary learning objectives should focus on improving specific writing skills like grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary usage for individual students and monitoring text readability as an overall score to measure learning outcomes. Web-based applications and the tools integrated into them have the potential to serve as a diagnostic solution for analyzing the text readability and writing skills of students. Organization and structuring of Canvas data was required before adding text readability and other writing skills analytics as part of the process to develop diagnostic learning analytics that interprets student writing skills in the learning management system. Decision modeling was used to capture and describe the specifics of literacy improvement decisions for instructors and administrators in a graphical notation and structured format.

Writing, an important academic skill for university students to acquire, becomes more important in a distance education institution where assessment is primarily on written work. Successful teaching and learning practices for Open Distance Learning (ODL) incorporate multiple forms of interaction when using technology within a constructivist approach. The study seeks to understand students’ perceptions of wikis within a process writing approach, and the suitability of Web 2.0 technology for tasks designed to teach academic writing. A participatory action research design was selected as it merges social action and research to solve educational problems while increasing human understanding of the phenomena. The findings show that students may be open to using wikis within their actual learning environment. Of significance was the issue of the early integration and engagement of students into online learning communities. The challenges experienced in the study can be addressed adapting Chickering and Ehrmann’s (1996) principles to frame the development of online learning. / Teaching Practice Unit / M.A. (TESOL)

Writing for an academic purpose is not an easy skill to master, whether for a native English speaker (L1) or an English language learner (ELL). In order to better prepare ELL students for success in mainstream content courses at the university level, more must be known about the characteristics of student writing in the local context of an intensive English program. This information can be used to inform ELL writing instructors of which linguistic features to target so that their students produce writing that sounds appropriate for the academic written register. Two corpora of 30 research essays each were compiled, one of L1 student writing done in various departments at Portland State University, and the other of ELL writing produced in an advanced writing course in Portland State University's Intensive English Language Program. The corpora were compared for the frequencies of 13 linguistic features which had been previously found in significantly different frequencies in L1 and ELL essays (Hinkel, 2002). The tokens of each feature in each essay were counted, and the frequency rate was calculated in each case. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test found 6 features with significantly different frequency rates between the two corpora. The following features were more frequent in L1 essays than in ELL essays: modal would, perfect aspect, passive voice, reduced adjective clause, and it-cleft. In addition, the type/token ratio was found be significantly higher in L1 essays than in ELL essays. An analysis of how each of the significant features was used in the context of ELL and L1 essays revealed the following: Both student groups were still acquiring the appropriate use of modal would; the majority of students in both groups did not utilize it-clefts; the lower type/token ratio in ELL essays meant that these students used a more limited vocabulary than did L1 students; and ELL students were still acquiring the accurate and appropriate uses of perfect aspect, passive voice, and reduced adjective clauses, whereas L1 students used these features grammatically and for the standard uses. To apply these findings to the ELL writing classroom, instructors should help students raise their awareness of these six features in their own academic writing by leading students in identifying grammatical and ungrammatical uses of these features and providing practice in differentiating between uses which are standard to the register of academic writing and uses which are appropriate only in conversation. Two sample activities are included to illustrate how to implement these recommendations.

This study explored the development of new texts by fluent non-native speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an endangered indigenous contact language of the Pacific Northwest United States. The texts were developed as part of the language and culture program of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon for use in university-sponsored language classes. The collaborative process of developing 12 texts was explored through detailed revision analysis and interviews with the materials developers and other stakeholders. Fluent non-native speakers relied on collaboration, historical documentation, reference materials, grammatical models, and their own intuitions and cultural sensibilities to develop texts that would be both faithful to the speech of previous generations and effective for instruction. The texts studied were stories and cultural information developed through research-based composition, translation from interlinear and narrative English in ethnographic sources, and editing of transcribed oral narrative. The revision analysis identified points of discussion in the lexical development and grammatical standardization of the language. The preferred strategy for developing new vocabulary was use of language-internal resources such as compounding although borrowing and loan translation from other local Native languages were also sometimes considered appropriate. The multifunctionality of the lexicon and evidence of dialectal and idiolectal usage problematicized the description of an “ideal” language for pedagogical purposes. Concerns were also expressed about detailed grammatical modeling due to potential influence on non-native speaker intuitions and the non-utility of such models for revitalization goals. Decisions made in the process of developing texts contributed to the development of a written form of Chinuk Wawa that would honor and perpetuate the oral language while adapting it for the requirements of inscription. The repeated inclusion of discourse markers and the frequent removal of nominal reference brought final versions of texts closer to oral style, while inclusion of background information and the avoidance of shortened pronouns and auxiliaries customized the presentation for a reading audience. The results of this study comprise a sketch of one aspect of the daily work of language revitalization, in which non-native speakers shoulder responsibility for the growth of a language and its transfer to new generations of speakers.

This action research study summarizes the investigation of journal writing and cooperative grouping with 8th grade geometry students in the construction of proof. Students written responses to prompts in journals were analyzed over the course of twelve weeks. Case studies of four students were developed from the researchers’ three geometry classes. All four students in the study participated in an academic program called Pre International Baccalaureate Preparation. Standardized test scores and an attitude scale categorized the four students. The ATMAT survey (Appendix A) measured each student’s attitude toward mathematics. Writing prompts focused on the students’ perceptions of the group process in constructing proofs and the development of geometric proof. The results suggested the students were engaged in learning within their cooperative groups but they also desired individual time before coming to a group setting. In addition, students’ written responses to journal prompts may provide an informal assessment and help students convey their own understanding of proof before any formal assessments.

This thesis reviews literature regarding English writing placement assessment and its impact on at-risk (under-prepared) college students.

This thesis reviews literature regarding English writing placement assessment and its impact on at-risk (under-prepared) college students.