Research in inclusive education lacks studies in examining how teachers experience their work. The aim of the study was to contribute knowledge regarding teachers’ own perspective on the work with additional adaptations and the prerequisites to meet students’ different needs from classes year 7-9. The data collection method was semi structured interviews and nine interviews were conducted with teachers. The interviews were transcribed in full and empirical evidence condensed by qualitative content analysis. The result showed that teachers describe their work based on different themes; complexity, tacit knowledge and relational skills. The result also showed that the prerequisites that teachers receive in their work with additional adaptations are different types of support structures and that the organization around this work is different in different schools. We found that categorical, relational and the dilemma perspective were represented in teachers descriptions of their work with additional adaptations and that none of the perspectives dominated the empirical evidence. In organization with clear structure and procedures, principal prioritises collegial learning, competence development and support as conditions for the work the relational perspective dominated. Conversely, in organisation lacking support from principal and student health and teachers lack of knowledge in their work with additional adaptions, the categorical perspective dominated.

Usualmente, em situações práticas de projeto de lajes mistas, procura-se uniformizar ao máximo a espessura das fôrmas de aço, normalmente por razões econômicas (produção em larga escala). Entretanto, em alguns casos, há a necessidade de se especificarem algumas fôrmas com maior espessura, solução essa pouco competitiva no mercado brasileiro. Uma alternativa economicamente interessante em relação ao aumento de espessura é a inserção de armadura adicional, mantendo-se assim a espessura padrão (em geral 0,80 mm) e obtendo-se aumento da área de aço por meio de vergalhões. No entanto, por se tratar de uma solução inusual, o comportamento estrutural das lajes mistas com armadura adicional e seus critérios e diretrizes de dimensionamento não são previstos em normas e manuais técnicos: a ABNT NBR 8800 (2008, p. 226) e o Eurocode 4 (2004, p. 104) mencionam que, caso haja armadura para resistir ao momento fletor positivo, a formulação apresentada deverá ser adequadamente ajustada, mas não apresentam os respectivos critérios e equacionamentos. O ANSI/ASCE 3-91 (1992), o CSSBI S2-2008 (2008) e o ANSI/SDI C-2011 (2011) não mencionam a possibilidade de armadura adicional. Diante desse cenário, investigou-se o comportamento estrutural de lajes mistas com vergalhões e, por meio de uma extensão matemática das formulações já existentes para o caso sem armadura, foram propostos critérios de dimensionamento para os estados-limites últimos (momento fletor e cisalhamento longitudinal) e de serviço (deslocamento vertical). Foram realizados ensaios de flexão em doze protótipos de lajes mistas de dimensões usuais, sendo oito sem barras adicionais e quatro com, variando-se as dimensões (altura e vão, conforme Eurocode 4 (2004)) e com quatro taxas de armadura. A partir desses resultados, pôde-se analisar o comportamento estrutural dos protótipos com armadura adicional, os quais apresentaram ductilidade e capacidade consideravelmente maiores que as correspondentes lajes sem as barras. Por fim, também foram validadas as formulações referentes ao cisalhamento longitudinal (extensões do Método m-k e do Método da Interação Parcial) e ao deslocamento vertical, para os casos mais usuais. / Usually, on the design of composite slabs with profiled steel decking, it is tended to standardize as much as possible the thickness of the steel decking, generally because of economic reasons (large-scale production). Nevertheless, in a few cases it must be necessary to specify thicker steel decking, which is not a competitive solution in the Brazilian market. An economic alternative regarding the increase of thickness is the insertion of additional bottom reinforcement, thus, keeping the standard thickness (in general 0.80 mm) and obtaining the steel area increment through rebars. Notwithstanding, since that is an unusual solution, the structural behavior of composite slabs with additional reinforcement, their criteria and design guidelines are not provided in standards and technical manuals: ABNT NBR 8800 (2008) and Eurocode 4 (2004) state that, if there are additional bars to resist positive bending moment, the formulation should be adapted, however they do not present the respective criteria and equating. CSSBI S2-2008 (2008), ANSI/ASCE 3-91 (1992) and ANSI/SDI C-2011 (2011) do not mention the possibility of using additional reinforcement. In this scenario, the structural behavior of composite slabs with rebars was investigated and, through a mathematic extension of the formulation already used to the unreinforced situation, design criteria were proposed for the ultimate (flexure and longitudinal shear) and serviceability (deflection) limit states. In addition, flexure tests were carried out in twelve composite slabs with usual dimensions, eight of those without additional bars and four with, following the recommendations by Eurocode 4 (2004) about the variation of the dimensions (height and span), with the latter having four reinforcement rates. With the results of those tests, the structural behavior of the reinforced prototypes was analysed, which have showed considerably higher ductility and resistance when compared to those with the unreinforced ones. Finally, the formulations for the usual cases related to longitudinal shear (extensions of the m-k Method and the Partial Interaction Method) and deflection were validated.

The diploma thesis focuses on support of teaching in chosen subjects in the second year of elementary school using interactive white boards with new technology SMART lab. It is focused on evaluation of publicly available interactive teaching portal applications, which occurre in high numbers, however they are obsoled or inappropriately created. Subsequently, the thesis includes a research which pays attention to the usage of the interactive white boards in chosen subjects in the second year of elementary schools located in Vysočina region. The main aim is to ascertain knowledge of teachers when using this technology. The examined subjects were chosen of the result of the questionnaire survey which was sent to teachers from the first grade of the elementary school.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-08-24T14:49:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Julia Oliveira Osorio Marques_.pdf: 1525914 bytes, checksum: cc4201589412414b4a2c61e5f2004925 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-24T14:49:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Julia Oliveira Osorio Marques_.pdf: 1525914 bytes, checksum: cc4201589412414b4a2c61e5f2004925 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / FAPERGS - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul / Estudar o silêncio implica considerar o que está além das palavras obviamente enunciadas e trazer à tona a não-insignificância do silêncio em sala de aula de língua adicional (LA). Partindo-se do pressuposto de que interagimos com o mundo de forma mediada e de que precisamos aprender para que possamos nos desenvolver, este estudo baseia-se na teoria vigotskiana no que se refere à aprendizagem. Com esse intuito, utiliza-se o viés da perspectiva sociocultural para relacionar o silêncio a contextos de construção de conhecimento em LA. Para isso, neste estudo, de natureza qualitativa, interações entre alunos de inglês como LA foram observadas e analisadas em uma universidade do sul do Brasil durante a realização de tarefas colaborativas. Para análise de dados foram analisados protocolos verbais sob a ótica da teoria sociocultural. Este trabalho visa problematizar os possíveis sentidos, influência e, em especial, as funções do silêncio na aprendizagem de LA. Com base na literatura, optou-se por categorizar as funções do silêncio como: cognitiva, interativa e social. A função cognitiva do silêncio está relacionada a questões internas, intra-relacionais, como escolhas lexicais e planejamento semântico; a função interativa do silêncio está ligada à conexão micro-relacional entre os interlocutores, como proximidade e evitação de face; e a função social do silêncio tem a ver com questões macro-relacionais, como estilos pessoais, questões de gênero social e afirmação de identidade cultural. Neste estudo investiga-se como as participantes explicam o uso do seu silêncio no contexto de sala de aula de LA durante a realização de uma tarefa colaborativa; como as participantes explicam o silêncio da sua interlocutora na interação em sala de aula de LA durante a realização desta mesma tarefa colaborativa; e quais as funções de silêncio observadas pela pesquisadora durante essas interações. Assim, almeja-se auxiliar professores de línguas e demais profissionais da Linguística Aplicada a refletirem sobre o ensino/aprendizagem de maneira mais ampla, enxergando as interlocuções em aula de modo mais global, incluindo o silêncio, para que se possa oferecer novas contribuições no que se refere a processos de construção de conhecimento. / Studying silence means to consider what is beyond obviously enunciated words and bring up its non-insignificance in additional language (AL) classrooms. Departing from the presupposition that we interact with the world in a mediated way and that we need to learn in order to develop, this study is based on the Vygotskian theory in terms of learning. Therefore, the Sociocultural Theory view is used to associate silence to contexts of AL knowledge building. In this study, of qualitative nature, interactions between students of English as an AL were observed and analysed in a university in the South of Brazil during the realization of collaborative tasks. For data analyses verbal protocols from the sociocultural theory were used. This paper aims to problematize the possible meanings, influence and, especially, the functions of silence in AL learning. Based on the literature, the silence functions were categorized in three major groups: cognitive, interactive and social. The cognitive function of silence is related to intra-relational, internal questions, such as lexical choices and semantic planning; the interactive function of silence is linked with the micro-relational connection between interlocutors, such as proximity and face avoidance; and the social function of silence has to do with macro-relational questions, such as personal style, gender and cultural identity affirmation. It is studied how the participants explain the use of their own silence in the AL classroom context during the realization of a collaborative task; how the participants explain their interlocutor’s silence in interaction in the AL classroom during this same collaborative task; and which functions of silence were observed by the researcher during these interactions. Thus, it is aimed to help language teachers and other Applied Linguistics professionals to reflect about teaching/learning in a broader sense, looking at the interactions in AL classrooms in a different manner, including silence, so that new contributions to the processes of knowledge building can be offered.

This dissertation study explored the practices that foster teacher development in a community of practice (Wenger, 1998, 2010) of teachers of English as an Additional Language in a large federal university in the south of Brazil. The community is part of a big internationalization effort in Brazilian universities, named Languages without Borders (LwB). In summary, the goal of the program is to teach additional languages for university students, faculty and staff. For that, the local LwB center has fifteen student teachers, from sophomore to senior year, who are pursuing a teaching certification in English as an Additional Language. Although the community has teaching as its end goal, and not teacher development, teacher development has emerged as an epiphenomenon, for student teachers need to learn how to teach in order for the community’s goals to be attained. The objective of this study was to observe, describe and analyze the practices that foster professional development for these student teachers in order to understand in what ways (and if) the experiences in their everyday life of the community become professional learning. While previous research has shown that communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998) can be sites of learning, and has explored communities among teachers and students in a variety of contexts, there is a scarcity of studies about community among these additional language teachers (Costa, 2013; Merril, 2016) With the theoretical framework of Practice Theory (Wenger, 1998; Young, 2009; Ortner, 1983), this interpretative study (Erickson, 1990) examined history-in-person interviews with focal participants as well as intensive participant observation – recorded in the form of field notes, audio recordings and photographs – and collection of artifacts. The research participants consist of fifteen student teachers, two former student teachers, three Fulbright English Teaching Assistants, and two of the three coordinators of the program at this university. Out of these, five student teachers were chosen for the interviews. Results revealed that this community has both formal and informal practices that cultivate teacher development. The formal practices are planned by the coordinator and enacted in weekly pedagogical meetings, and include practices such as microteaching, workshops and lectures. The informal practices emerge from teachers’ everyday interactions in the teachers’ room, and include practices such as sharing materials, requesting help, sharing classroom stories, sharing specialized concepts and literature in the field of AL teaching, and planning classes together. In conclusion, the landscape of practices that student teachers experience throughout their trajectory in the program helps them develop as teachers through the profession (Nóvoa, 1992) and integrate both technical and practical aspects of the job.

L’objectif général de la présente thèse était d’étudier les effets et les facteurs d’influence des exercices et des programmes d’entraînement consistant en la co-contraction maximale isométrique volontaire (CCMIV) de l’articulation du coude : effet de l’entraînement en CCMIV sur la force explosive (Etude A), influence de l’heure habituelle d’entraînement (Etude B) et de charges additionnelles pendant les CCMIV (Etude C). Les résultats ont montré que 6 semaines d’entraînement en CCMIV peuvent améliorer simultanément la force maximale volontaire des muscles sans altération de la force explosive (Etude A et B) et indépendamment de l’heure habituelle d’entraînement (Etude B). Ces gains de force s’accompagnaient d’une augmentation de l’activité électromyographique des muscles agonistes (Etude A et B). Cependant, les résultats de l’étude B suggèrent que l’entraînement le matin s’accompagne d’un meilleur gain de la force musculaire, masquant ainsi les différences de force entre le matin et le soir. Par ailleurs, l’étude C a montré qu’une charge additionnelle (50% FMV) associée à une CCMIV modifie le pattern d’activation des muscles agonistes-antagonistes : augmentation du niveau d’activation des muscles agonistes et diminution de celui des antagonistes. Par conséquent, un programme d’entraînement en CCMIV avec charge additionnelle devrait comprendre des exercices avec charge pour les fléchisseurs et les extenseurs. De plus, les résultats de l’étude C suggèrent que le concept du fléchisseur équivalent pourrait être appliqué non seulement quand les fléchisseurs agissent comme agonistes mais aussi quand ils agissent comme antagonistes. / The aim of the present thesis was to study the effects and the influencing factors during the elbow joint maximal isometric voluntary co-contractions (MIVCC) exercises and training program: effect of the MIVCC training on the explosive force (Study A), influence of the time-of-day at which training was scheduled (Study B) and additional load during MIVCC (Study C). The results showed that six weeks of MIVCC training can simultaneously improve the maximum voluntary force, without altering the explosive force (Study A and B) and independently of the time-of-day at which training was scheduled (Study B). These improvements were accompanied by an increase in electromyography activity of agonist muscles (Study A and B). However, the results of study B suggest that morning training is accompanied by a higher strength improvement, by masking the strength differences between the morning and evening. Furthermore, the study C showed that additional load (50% MVF) associated with MIVCC modifies the activation pattern of the agonist-antagonist muscles: by increasing the activation level of the agonist muscles and decreasing the co-activation level of the antagonist muscles. Therefore, MIVCC training program with additional load should include exercises with load for flexor and extensor muscles. In addition, the results of the study C suggest that the concept of “flexor equivalent” may be applied not only when the flexor muscles acting as agonist but also when they acting as antagonist muscles.

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Claudia Sanches 2018..pdf: 5928310 bytes, checksum: d0e238afa37e6d6ac3bd76cd194a81af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-12-14 / Este trabalho se propõe a contribuir para a transformação de uma realidade em quealunos utilizam com facilidade a oralidade em língua espanhola em sala de aula, emdecorrência da necessidade do uso em função do mercado ou pela influência dafamília. Porém a escrita, nesse processo, não só fica em segundo plano comomuitas vezes é repelida por esses estudantes pelo medo de errar. Desenvolvi apresente pesquisa durante o Mestrado profissional em Ensino de Línguas, portanto,com o objetivo de analisar o processo de implementação de uma sequência didáticade produção escrita de contos voltada a um público de alunos da Educação deJovens e Adultos do Ensino Médio, de uma escola pública do município de Sant’Anado Livramento, fronteira com a vizinha cidade de Rivera, no Uruguai. Desenvolvida apartir da produção e aplicação de um Material Didático Autoral, composto por 19aulas, com vistas a implementar uma proposta didática de produção escrita decontos em língua adicional (Língua Espanhola), focando na valorização dasidentidades locais dos alunos e também como uma forma de estimular a produçãoescrita desses alunos, essa pesquisa teve como objetivos específicos: apontar asprincipais facilidades e dificuldades no processo de aprendizagem dos estudantesao longo do desenvolvimento da proposta, a partir de atividades autoavaliativassistemáticas; avaliar a gestão dos tempos pedagógicos para o desenvolvimento daproposta, a partir do planejamento inicial, contrastando-o com a sua efetivaimplementação; comparar a produção inicial e final dos contos dos alunos queparticiparam de todas as etapas da proposta e identificar se as temáticasmobilizadas nos contos produzidos pelos estudantes apontam para a valorizaçãodas identidades regionais/locais. O embasamento teórico se deu principalmente apartir dos seguintes conceitos: Língua, Bagno (2001); Língua adicional, Leffa e Irala(2014); Portunhol, Celada (2002), Mota (2010), Lafin (2011) e Albuquerque (2014);Fronteira, Sturza (2005) e Garcia (2010); aprendizagem significativa de Ausubel,Moreira (2011); conto, Gotlib (2000); e os conceitos de cultura e ensino de línguas.Quanto aos resultados pude perceber a partir do acompanhamento das atividadesque houve um progresso na produção escrita dos alunos, juntamente com odesenvolvimento da oralidade. Concomitante a isso, os alunos resgataram, atravésda escrita dos contos, elementos das diferentes culturas presentes no grupo,valorizando as identidades locais. / This work aims to contribute to the transformation of a reality in which students easilyuse Spanish orality in the classroom, due to the need to use it because of the marketor the influence of the family. But writing in this process not only takes second place,but is often repelled by these students by the fear of making mistakes. I developedthe present research during the Professional Master in Teaching of Languages,therefore, with the objective of analyzing the process of implementation of a didacticsequence of written production of short stories directed to a public of students of theEducation of Young and Adults of High School, of a public school in the municipalityof Sant'Ana do Livramento, bordering the nearby town of Rivera in Uruguay.Developed from the production and application of an Authoritative Didactic Material,composed of 19 classes, with a view to implementing a didactic proposal of writtenwriting in additional language (Spanish Language), focusing on the valuation of thelocal identities of students and also as a In order to stimulate the written production ofthese students, this research had as specific objectives: to point out the mainfacilities and difficulties in the students' learning process throughout the developmentof the proposal, based on systematic self-evaluation activities; to evaluate themanagement of pedagogical times for the development of the proposal, starting fromthe initial planning, contrasting it with its effective implementation; compare the initialand final production of the short stories of the students who participated in all thestages of the proposal and identify if the themes mobilized in the stories produced bythe students point to the appreciation of the regional/local identities. The theoreticalbasis was based on the following concepts: Language, Bagno (2001); Additionallanguage, Leffa and Irala (2014); Portunhol, Celada (2002), Mota (2010), Lafin(2011) and Albuquerque (2014); Fronteira, Sturza (2005) and Garcia (2010); learningfrom Ausubel, Moreira (2011); tale, Gotlib (2000); and the concepts of culture andlanguage teaching. As for the results, I could see from the follow-up of the activitiesthat there was progress in the students' written production, together with thedevelopment of orality. Concomitant to this, the students rescued, through the writingof the stories, elements of the different cultures present in the group, valuing the localidentities.

O objetivo desta tese é relacionar análises de segmentos transcritos de fala-em-interação de sala de aula de língua adicional e orientações acerca de metodologia de ensino. Em especial, esta pesquisa propõe colocar em discussão as orientações presentes em manuais de metodologia de ensino de línguas adicionais (Brown, 2007; Hall, 2001a; Harmer, 2009; Schlatter & Garcez, 2012; Scrivener, 2012) acerca do planejamento de tarefas pedagógicas e do gerenciamento interacional da participação dos alunos durante a realização de atividades pedagógicas. Para a realização do estudo, foram geradas 20 horas de registros audiovisuais em uma sala de aula de nível básico 2 de português como língua adicional que adota pedagogia de projetos em um curso em extensão de uma instituição federal de ensino superior. A partir do enquadre teórico-metodológico da Análise da Conversa, analiso neste relatório cinco ocorrências transcritas (de um total de dezoito) de fala-em-interação de sala de aula em que o status epistêmico de conhecedor da língua adicional de algum participante é posto em risco durante a realização de atividades pedagógicas. A realização de atividades pedagógicas foi analisada como constituída de três etapas: convite à participação (Ramos, 2010), produção e continuidade. Observou-se que as ações realizadas na etapa de continuidade da realização da atividade pedagógica foram centrais para a concretização de diferentes objetivos pedagógicos. Quando essas ações estavam implicadas sequencialmente em relação ao que fora feito imediatamente antes na etapa de produção da atividade pedagógica, o objetivo concretizado se relacionava ao uso da língua adicional para a realização de ações. Por outro lado, quando essas ações não exibiam essa implicatividade sequencial, o objetivo realizado dizia respeito à produção de elocuções com acurácia. Verificou-se que as ações realizadas pela professora que rebaixavam o outro participante epistemicamente com relação à língua adicional foram ofertas de reelaboração de elocuções. Já as práticas e ações mobilizadas pela professora que trabalhavam no sentido de assegurar o status epistêmico dos demais participantes como conhecedores da língua adicional foram a formulação (Garfinkel & Sacks, 1970) e a verificação de entendimento (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977, pp. 379). Tais achados recomendam que manuais de metodologia de ensino de línguas atentem para a importância de a) antever, quando do planejamento de tarefas, a interação projetada na etapa de continuidade da tarefa de modo a maximizar a chance de que os objetivos projetados se concretizem e b) considerar as ações de formulação e verificação de entendimento como centrais para a materialização da atribuição do professor como ratificador do conhecimento produzido pelo aluno. / This thesis is aimed at relating classroom talk-in-interaction transcripts to guidelines on teaching methodology. This research discusses guidelines from additional languague teaching methodology handbooks (Brown, 2007; Hall, 2001a; Harmer, 2009; Schlatter & Garcez, 2012; Scrivener, 2012) on task planning and interactional management of students’ participation while carrying out pedagogical activities. Twenty hours of audiovisual data were generated in a Portuguese-as-an-additional language extension program at a Higher Education institution. The classes registered were a basic 2 level group, whose curriculum followed a progect-based methodology. Following Conversation Analysis framework, I analyse five transcribed segments (from a corpus of eighteen occurances) that portray participants’ epistemic status K+ concerning the additional language at risk during the accomplishment of pedagogical activities. The accomplishment of the pedagogical activity was constituted in three stages: invite for participation (Ramos, 2010), production and follow up. The actions co-constructed during the follow up stage were crucial to reach different pedagogical goals. When such actions were sequentially implied in relation to the action previously done in the production stage of the pedagogical activity, the goal reached was connected to a concept of language as doing social actions. On the other hand, when these actions did not display such sequential implication, the pedagogical goal was connected to accurate language production. The actions produced by the instructor that downgraded the other participant epistemic status in relation to the additional language were offers of reformulated utterances. The practices and actions that ratified the other participants’ epistemic status as K+ in relation to the additional langauge were formulations (Garfinkel & Sacks, 1970) and comprehension checks (Schegloff, Jefferson, & Sacks, 1977, pp. 379). Such findings suggest that additional language teaching handbooks take notice of a) the importance of predicting and projecting the actions to be done during the follow up stage so as to maximize the chances of reaching the pedagogical goals previously planned and b) the actions of formulating and checking understanding as central resources to enable the additional language instructor to ratify others’ production (and knowledge) in the additional language at hand.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Programa de Doutorado-sanduÃche no Exterior / O objeto de estudo do presente trabalho à o conhecimento lexical evidenciado em produÃÃes escritas de aprendizes de PortuguÃs como LÃngua Adicional (PLA). AtravÃs de um design exploratÃrio, a partir do corpus (Recolha de Corpora de PLA da Universidade de Coimbra), investigamos os estÃgios de desenvolvimento da interlÃngua (IL) na tentativa de comparar a diversidade lexical, examinando a variaÃÃo dos nÃveis de proficiÃncia estabelecidos de acordo com os Ãndices calculados pela ferramenta texinspector workflow. A pesquisa encontra apoio em estudos de conhecimento lexical de Cobb (2003), Engber (1995), Hulstijn (1996, 2001, 2011, 2015), Laufer (1995, 1998, 2004), Meara (1980, 2005), Milton (2009), Nation (2001, 2004, 2011, 2012), Read (2004) e Jarvis (2013a, 1013b), que consideram os textos escritos como uma fonte potencialmente rica de informaÃÃes sobre o desenvolvimento do vocabulÃrio da L2 ou da lÃngua adicional (LA). O pressuposto subjacente à que o estÃgio de desenvolvimento da interlÃngua (IL) pode servir como um indicador de proficiÃncia mais elevada, juntamente com a noÃÃo de um nÃcleo comum de uso da lÃngua em questÃo. Partindo de uma primeira investigaÃÃo, realizamos uma anÃlise ANOVA de 129 textos, estabelecendo como variÃveis qualitativas independentes os nÃveis de proficiÃncia (B2 e C1), a lÃngua materna (RomÃnica e NÃo RomÃnica) e os diferentes tÃpicos (sobre o IndivÃduo, a Sociedade e o Meio-ambiente). Como variÃveis quantitativas dependentes, foram considerados os Ãndices de variabilidade (TTR) e diversidade lexical (MTLD). Os resultados sugerem variaÃÃes significativas nos Ãndices TTR e MTLD apenas entre as produÃÃes escritas desenvolvidas sob diferentes temas. As implicaÃÃes do estudo sÃo discutidas do ponto de vista pedagÃgico da avaliaÃÃo escrita, considerando a importÃncia da operacionalizaÃÃo de descritores de diversidade lexical como feedback, tendo em vista a dinamicidade dos nÃveis de proficiÃncia. Corroboramos com as noÃÃes de Housen e Bultà (2013) de que complexidade linguÃstica tem dimensÃes de carÃter cognitivo e linguÃstico, com facetas de desenvolvimento e desempenho, podendo se manifestar em todos os nÃveis estruturais e de uso. / The present study aims to investigate the lexical knowledge evidenced in written productions of learners of Portuguese as an additional language. Through an exploratory design, from the corpus (PLA Corpora Collection of the University of Coimbra), the developmental stages of interlanguage (IL) were investigated in an attempt to compare the lexical diversity by examining the variation of the indexes established by the tool textinspector workflow. This research is supported by lexical knowledge studies of Cobb (2003), Engber (1995), Hulstijn (1996, 2001, 2011, 2015), Laufer (1995, 1998, 2004), Meara (1980, 2005), Milton (2009), Nation (2001, 2004, 2011, 2012), Read (2004) and Jarvis (2013a, 1013b), who take written texts as potentially rich sources of information on the vocabulary development of a second or additional language. The underlying assumption is that the interlanguage (IL) stage of development of may serve as an indicator of higher proficiency along with the notion a common core use of the language in question. Departing from a first investigation, an ANOVA analysis of a sample of 139 texts was conducted, establishing as independent qualitative variables: the proficiency levels (B2 and C1), the mother tongue (Romance and non-Romance), and the different topics (on the Individual, Society and the environment). As dependent quantitative variables, the variability index (TTR) and lexical diversity (MTLD) were considered. The results suggest significant changes in TTR and MTLD indexes only between the different topics provided by the corpus. The implications of the findings are discussed from a pedagogical point of view of writing assessment, considering the importance of lexical diversity descriptors for feedback in view of the dynamics of the proficiency levels. Also, the study corroborates the notions of Housen and Bultà (2013) of linguistic complexity as having dimensions of cognitive, linguistic, performance, and developmental facets that can be found in all structural levels and use.

Thesis (M. A. (Language Education)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017 / This study investigates the methods of teaching poetry to English First Additional (EFAL) secondary school learners in the Shiluvane Circuit, in order to establish whether their teaching and learning methods equip them as second or additional language poetry teachers at secondary school level. Although English plays a significant role as a language of instruction at the secondary level in South Africa, underperformance at secondary school examinations has generated a continuous debate with many suggesting that the standards of English language competence has declined. Also the role of teachers is usually questioned whenever issues of learners’ performance are raised. The study focuses on the methods of teaching that English first additional language teachers use in poetry to instil the passion for the genre. This study was conducted in rural secondary schools. Forty learners from grade ten classes and their teachers participated. The study used qualitative approaches for gathering information through lesson observations, learners’ focus group interviews and teacher interviews at four secondary schools to evaluate the application of English poetry teaching. A case study design was used using 4 schools. This study is informed by Lev Vygotsky’s constructivist or socio-cultural theory (1978). Literature consulted points to the fact that the Shiluvane Circuit secondary teachers seem to avoid teaching poetry. This reveals that only four out of eleven secondary schools exposed their learners to poetry during their EFAL lessons. The findings also revealed that most respondents lacked interest in English poetry. Instead the learner interacting through cooperative or collaborative group work they competed against each other and believe in witchcraft should they share their learning experiences with fellow learners. The study recommended the use of different methods, such as cooperative learning, to teach poetry. Culturally relevant poems also add to the interest of the learners.