Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joseane Terto de Souza.pdf: 4851744 bytes, checksum: 2ef39ae67e48c5e284cc7e5931ab67f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Learning how to read and write in alphabetical writing systems constitutes a complex task that demands many skills, among them the knowledge of letters and their relation to the sounds of the language. Hence, guaranteeing the teaching and learning of the alphabetic principle, i.e., that the letters represent the sounds in children s education, allows learners to become proficient readers and writers in the following schooling years. Research shows that the knowledge of the name of the letters relates with the initial progress in the learning process of reading and writing. Literature in this domain still shows the contributions of the development of the alphabetical principle to the practices in literacy. An educational application aimed at the teaching and learning of the alphabetic principle can help the learner understand that the letters represent the sounds. This research had two goals: to develop an educational application - Mundo das Letras ( World of Letters ), aimed at teaching the alphabetic principle, supported by the contributions from cognitive psychology of reading, and to test its usage with a group of children aged between five and six. Two thirty-student groups from the second degree of preschool at a Municipal Children Education School (EMEI) located in the city of São Paulo were formed in order to test the application s usage: the application group (GA) and the control group (GC). A three-step outline was used: initial evaluation, application and final evaluation. The application of Mundo das Letras application was carried out in the EMEI s computer lab for thirty days, three times a week, with the duration of thirty minutes per session. The results demonstrated that the children from the application group obtained a great advancement in the recognition and naming of the letters of the alphabet, when compared to children from the control group. The application group s children s utterances as well as the observation of their behavior during the application sessions showed that the application aroused their interest and motivation, retaining their attention and their expressed willingness to continue using the application. Some considerations were made regarding the implication of these results to the initial teaching of the written language to preschool children / Aprender a ler e a escrever, em sistemas alfabéticos de escrita, é uma tarefa complexa que exige várias habilidades, entre elas, o conhecimento das letras e sua correspondência com os sons da linguagem. Assim, garantir o ensino e a aprendizagem do princípio alfabético, isto é, que as letras representam os sons, na educação infantil permite aos aprendizes que se tornem leitores e escritores proficientes nos anos seguintes de escolarização. Pesquisas indicam que o conhecimento do nome das letras relaciona-se com o progresso inicial na aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita. A literatura da área ainda demonstra as contribuições do desenvolvimento do princípio alfabético às práticas de alfabetização. Um aplicativo educativo direcionado ao ensino e aprendizagem do princípio alfabético pode contribuir para que o aprendiz entenda que as letras representam os sons. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivos desenvolver um aplicativo educativo Mundo das Letras , voltado para o ensino do princípio alfabético fundamentado nas contribuições da psicologia cognitiva da leitura, e testar seu uso com um grupo de crianças entre 5 e 6 anos. Para testar o uso do aplicativo, foram constituídos dois grupos de 30 crianças do segundo estágio da educação infantil, de uma EMEI localizada na cidade de São Paulo: um Grupo de Aplicação (GA) e um Grupo Controle (GC). Foi utilizado um delineamento em três etapas: avaliação inicial, aplicação e avaliação final. A aplicação do Mundo das Letras foi realizada no laboratório de informática da EMEI durante 30 dias, três sessões por semana e com duração de 30 minutos cada sessão. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que as crianças do grupo de aplicação obtiveram um grande avanço no reconhecimento e nomeação das letras do alfabeto, quando comparadas às crianças do grupo controle. As falas das crianças do GA, bem como a observação de seu comportamento durante as sessões de aplicação, mostraram que o aplicativo despertou o seu interesse e motivação, mantendo sua atenção e o desejo expresso de continuar a utilizar o aplicativo. Foram feitas, ao final, considerações sobre as implicações desses resultados para o ensino inicial da linguagem escrita a crianças da educação infantil

I allmänhet anges merparten av aktielistor i alfabetisk ordning. Tidigare studier har visat att investerare tenderar att handla aktier som hamnar tidigt i aktielistan mer frekvent än aktie som förekommer sent i aktielistan. Forskning inom psykologi föreslår att individer som möter ett stort antal alternativ försöker hitta genvägar för att underlätta beslutsfattandet. Det leder till irrationellt beteende hos investeraren där den letar efter första acceptabla alternativet istället för att bearbeta all tillgänglig information som berör aktier i aktielistan. Därför när investeraren söker igenom aktielistan i alfabetisk ordning uppifrån och ner har tidigt placerade aktier större chans att bli valda. Vi kommer i denna uppsats undersöka om det finns ”alfabetiskt bias” på Stockholmsbörsen. Studien undersöker om det finns ett samband mellan aktiens placering i aktielistan och aktieomsättningshastighet eller Tobins Q. Vi undersöker också om det finns skillnad i marknadsvärde och namnflyt mellan aktier som förekommer tidigt på aktielistan och aktier som står sent på listan. Resultatet från studien har visat att aktier som kommer tidigt i aktielistan handlas mer frekvent (aktieomsättningshastighet) och erhåller högre Tobins Q än aktier som förekommer senare i aktielistan. Vidare visade vår undersökning att det inte finns skillnad i marknadsvärde eller namnflyt mellan tidigt och sent placerade aktier. Det innebär att det finns belägg för att aktielistor i alfabetisk ordning bidrar till irrationellt beteende hos investerare på Stockholmsbörsen. / In general, stock information is presented in alphabetical order by company name or ticker symbol. Previous studies have shown that investors tend to trade stocks that fall early in the stock list more frequently than stocks that are late in the stock list. Research in psychology suggests that individuals encountering a large number of options try to find shortcuts to facilitate decision making. This leads to irrational behavior, where investor is looking for the first acceptable alternative instead of processing all available information relative to shares in the stock list. Therefore, when the investor searches through stock list from top to bottom, early stocks have a greater chance of being selected. This study will investigate whether there is "alphabetical bias" on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The study investigates whether there is a correlation between the stock's placement in the stock list and the stock turnover rate or Tobins Q. We also investigate whether there is a difference in market value and name fluency between shares that are listed early on the stock list and stocks that are presented late on the list. The result of the study has shown that stocks placed early in the stock list are traded more frequently (share turnover rate) and receive higher Tobins Q than shares that appear later in the stock list. Furthermore, our survey shows that there is no difference in market value or name fluency between early and late stocks. This means there is evidence that stock lists in alphabetical order contribute to irrational behavior among investors on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

Submitted by Maria Suzana Diniz (msuzanad@hotmail.com) on 2015-11-23T13:49:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1959802 bytes, checksum: 7c4299f2c3d9d2dd07a9cea00ea75cd5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-23T13:49:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1959802 bytes, checksum: 7c4299f2c3d9d2dd07a9cea00ea75cd5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present dissertation has the objective of contributing to the learning improvement of children who are still undergoing their literacy studies. It is known that the early years of school life are the right time to prevent Functional Illiteracy. Children undergoing literacy studies do not learn to read and write by themselves, for they need a systematic and intense teaching-learning context along with the presence of a mediator who can provide them the necessary conditions to acquire such skills in the correct time; during their literacy studies. This dissertations proposes the execution of systematic activities aiming the development of the alphabetic writing in children of the 2nd year of elementary school who are still in the Pre-Syllabic level of writing. The activities performed were based in the studies of Lemle (1999) and Scliar-Cabral (2013), aiming the analysis of the improvement among the participating children by punctuating the improvements and difficulties along the process. To do so, writing tests were performed to analyze the improvement of the students, which could be divided into: (a) Initial Evaluation (Initial Diagnosis), to detect the subjects’ writing levels; (b) Execution of Practical Activities: initially aimed to literacy preparation, approaching the five problems described by Lemle (1999), followed by activities proposed by Scliar-Cabral (2013) and (c) a re-evaluation of the students’ writing levels (Final Diagnosis). The analysis of these activities application showed that they contributed to an improvement in the participants’ writing skills. Final Diagnosis pointed out that; out of 7 children who started in the Pre-Syllabic level, 2 advanced to the Alphabetic level, 2 to the Syllabic-Alphabetic level and 3 to the Syllabic level. These results show that when students are lead, through practical activities, to reflect over the Alphabetic Writing System, they improved their knowledge regarding this system e started to formulate hypothesis in the record of their writing. It is estimated that the objectives proposed for this research were achieved, for every participant presented some degree of improvement in their writing and started to create syllabic hypothesis over this system, the latter are responsible for the first tries of establishing relationships between the sonorous context and written language, period considered vital for the process of comprehension of the alphabetic writing. / A presente dissertação tem o objetivo de contribuir para melhoria da situação de aprendizagem entre crianças em fase de alfabetização. Entende-se que é nos anos iniciais da vida escolar que se pode começar a prevenção para o analfabetismo funcional. As crianças, em fase de alfabetização, não aprendem a ler e escrever sozinhas, pois necessitam de um contexto de ensino-aprendizagem sistemático e intensivo com a presença de um mediador que lhe dê as condições necessárias para essa aquisição acontecer no tempo certo, ou seja, na fase de alfabetização. Este trabalho propõe realizar atividades sistemáticas para o desenvolvimento da escrita alfabética com crianças do 2º ano do ensino fundamental que ainda se encontram no nível Pré-silábico de escrita. As atividades realizadas tiveram como aporte teórico Lemle (1999) e Scliar-Cabral (2013), objetivando a análise da evolução entre as crianças participantes, pontuando as evoluções e dificuldades frente ao processo. Para tanto, o presente trabalho tem o intuito de realizar testes de escrita a fim de acompanhar a evolução dos alunos e contou com os seguintes momentos-chave: (a) avaliação inicial (Diagnóstico inicial), para detectar os níveis de escrita dos sujeitos; (b) execução de atividades práticas: inicialmente, voltadas para preparação da alfabetização, abordando os cinco problemas descritos por Lemle (1999) e atividades propostas por Scliar-Cabral (2013) e (c) uma reavaliação dos níveis de escrita dos estudantes (Pós-testes). As análises da aplicação dessas atividades apontaram que as mesmas contribuíram para o desenvolvimento da escrita dos participantes. Segundo os diagnósticos finais, das 7 crianças que iniciaram em nível Pré-silábico, 2 avançaram para o nível Alfabético, 2 para o nível Silábico-alfabético e 3 para o Silábico. Esses resultados mostram que quando os alunos são levados, através de atividades práticas, a refletirem sobre o Sistema de Escrita Alfabética, apresentam uma evolução no entendimento desse sistema e passam a formular hipóteses no registro de sua escrita. Estima-se que os objetivos propostos pela pesquisa foram alcançados, tendo em vista que todos os participantes apresentaram desenvolvimento na sua escrita e chegaram a realizar hipóteses silábicas sobre esse sistema, sendo essas hipóteses responsáveis pelas primeiras tentativas de se estabelecer relações entre o contexto sonoro e a linguagem escrita, período considerado vital para o processo evolutivo de compreensão da escrita alfabética.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of THRASS (Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skills) on the word level accuracy skills of a group of grade 2 learners. Word level accuracy is one sub skill in learning to read and is an indicator of the word recognition abilities of the child. THRASS is a program that has been designed to systematically teach phonics and, thus, teaches the basic building blocks of word sounds and structure so as to improve the child’s decoding ability and word recognition ability. The research took place within the positivist paradigm and the methodology is quantitative in nature. The data collection method took the form of a one group pretest-posttest design, where a standardised reading test was administered prior to exposing the participants to the THRASS Program and then readministered one year later on the same group of learners. Data analysis took the form of statistical analysis to investigate any statistical significant difference in the word level accuracy skills of those Grade 2 learners. The result showed that over the period of a year the average reading accuracy age for the target population increased by four months. However, after statistical analysis the difference was not statistically significant. The Null Hypothesis that; exposing a group of Grade 2 learners to the THRASS Program for a period of one year will have no statistically significant influence on their word level accuracy skills cannot be rejected . However, the changes both in average reading accuracy as well as error patterns have inspired recommendations for further research. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

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xiii, 137 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Research suggests that development of the alphabetic principle is a critical factor in learning to recognize words and becoming a successful reader. The alphabetic principle encompasses both the understanding that relationships exist between letters and sounds and the application of these relationships to reading words. This study investigated the degree to which different measures of the alphabetic principle were predictive of later reading development. These measures were examined in the context of Ehri's phase theory of sight word development to investigate how different behaviors associated with the alphabetic principle fit within a developmental framework. Two cohorts of students (109 kindergarteners, 212 first graders) participated in this study from spring of 2007 until late fall of 2008 (58 second graders, 121 third graders). The predictive powers of single and combined measures of the alphabetic principle were analyzed using sequential regression. Results indicated that each measure explained significant between-student variation in performance on measures of word reading fluency, oral reading fluency (ORF), vocabulary, and reading comprehension. A measure of letter-sounds embedded in nonsense words appeared to have more utility for the prediction of reading outcomes than a measure of letter-sounds presented in isolation. Additionally, including a measure of nonsense words with a measure of letter-sounds embedded in nonsense words increased the predictive power of the model over and above the predictive power of letter sounds alone. Growth on ORF served as an additional criterion for the purpose of investigating the methodology of measuring growth. Two conceptualizations of growth were explored: raw score change over time and individual rates of growth over time (slope). Correlations and sequential regression were used to evaluate the relationship between raw score change and measures of the alphabetic principle. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) was used to model individual slopes on Lexile measures of ORF (LORF). In general, raw score change appeared largely unrelated to measures of the alphabetic principle. HLM analyses revealed that individual differences in slope on LORF were minimal and not very reliable, making the prediction of these differences difficult. Recommendations for future research and implications for practice are discussed. / Committee in charge: Roland Good, Chairperson, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Kenneth Merrell, Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Member, Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership; Jean Stockard, Outside Member, Planning Public Policy and Management

The rationale for this study was to investigate the implementation of the THRASS literacy programme on a deaf learner who uses the spoken language approach. Particular emphasis was given to the role played by the Phoneme Machine together with Cued Speech. THRASS focuses on phoneme-grapheme correspondence by explicit phonics instruction to develop word analysis and recognition skills. Cued Speech is used as an instructional tool to facilitate visual access to auditory-based phonology. The research was framed within the Interpretivist paradigm and a qualitative case study design predominated, although the launch and landing of the study was quantitative in nature. The findings indicated that the auditory-based phonology of the English language may be accessed by a deaf learner, when supported by a visual instructional tool such as Cued Speech in synchronicity with speech-reading, to develop print literacy skills. This study opens the gateway to further enquiry on enhancing deaf literacy levels. / Inclusive Education / M. Ed. (Inclusive Education)

The rationale for this study was to investigate the implementation of the THRASS literacy programme on a deaf learner who uses the spoken language approach. Particular emphasis was given to the role played by the Phoneme Machine together with Cued Speech. THRASS focuses on phoneme-grapheme correspondence by explicit phonics instruction to develop word analysis and recognition skills. Cued Speech is used as an instructional tool to facilitate visual access to auditory-based phonology. The research was framed within the Interpretivist paradigm and a qualitative case study design predominated, although the launch and landing of the study was quantitative in nature. The findings indicated that the auditory-based phonology of the English language may be accessed by a deaf learner, when supported by a visual instructional tool such as Cued Speech in synchronicity with speech-reading, to develop print literacy skills. This study opens the gateway to further enquiry on enhancing deaf literacy levels. / Inclusive Education / M. Ed. (Inclusive Education)

There are only few dialect regions within Czech language territory, where a systematic dialect research can be made, since the traditional territorial dialect irreversibly disappears. In the northern part of the East-Moravian dialect region we would find Valachian region, where the dialect is still maintained alive, and where the lexicon collected in Dialect dictionary of southwest part of the Vsetin region (hereinafter as DDSV) originates. During the field survey I managed to collect a rich lexical material, on the basis of which the DDSV consisting of 2.027 basic and 427 referential lexical units was created. DDSV is a type of local, alphabetic and differential dictionary. The aim of this work is mainly to catch and elaborate the lexicon collected in DDSV, based on contemporary lexicographical methods. A differential approach was used at the selection of phraseology, it means, that achieved lexical material was thoroughly confronted with Czech explanatory dictionaries. The dialect research for DDSV was made among the members of the oldest generation (above 60 years). Among the youngest generation (under 30 years), a research for inter-generation comparison of the lexicon of substantive semantic register area of meals, drinks and smoking was led, focused at sub-groups poléfka, máčka, kaša, placka...

傳統上認為以中文為母語的孩童並不具有「音位覺識能力」(phonemic awareness)，本研究以實驗方式直接測量以中文為母語孩童的「音位覺識能力」，同時探討孩童「音位覺識能力」及「聲母—韻母覺識能力」(onset-rime awareness) 在英文拼字與讀字上所扮演的角色。在本研究中，一百九十二位國小四年級的孩童參與二項「母語音韻覺識測驗」，包括「聲母/韻母異音測驗」(onset/rime oddity test) 和「韻腹/韻尾異音測驗」(nucleus/coda oddity test)。根據上述二項測驗的成績，將孩童分為三組：第一組孩童(共29人)，其「聲母—韻母覺識能力」和「音位覺識能力」皆佳；第二組孩童(共29人)，其「聲母—韻母覺識能力」佳，但「音位覺識能力」差；第三組孩童(共26人)，其「聲母—韻母覺識能力」和「音位覺識能力」皆差。我們接著利用「拼英文假字測驗」和「讀英文假字測驗」來測量三組孩童的英文拼字與讀字的能力，在施測之前，孩童們有八次的機會學會「拼字」與「讀字」兩項測驗所需具備的「字音對應規則」。結果顯示，雖然孩童的「音位覺識能力」在程度上有所不同，但以中文為母語的孩童已具備「音位覺識能力」。此外，在考慮了孩童們「記憶廣度」(digit span)與「英文聽話字彙」 (English receptive vocabulary)的差異後，「聲母—韻母覺識能力」和「音位覺識能力」皆佳的孩童，在拼字的表現上優於「聲母—韻母覺識能力」佳，但「音位覺識能力」差的孩童來，接著「聲母—韻母覺識能力」佳，但「音位覺識能力」差的孩童的拼字表現優於「聲母—韻母覺識能力」和「音位覺識能力」皆差的孩童。最後，「音位覺識能力」佳的的孩童，在讀字的表現上優於「音位覺識能力」差的的孩童，此外，並無證據顯示「聲母—韻母覺識能力」在孩童的讀字能力上扮演著重要的角色。整體而言，本研究的結果支持其他研究的看法，這些研究認為以中文為母語的孩童在母語習得過程中所發展出來的「音韻覺識能力」對於其英文拼字與讀字的能力上有著一定的貢獻，此外，本研究更進一步顯示，這種貢獻會隨著「音韻覺識」程度的不同而有所改變。 / It has been conventionally assumed that Chinese-speaking children do not have phonemic awareness. In this study, Chinese-speaking children’s phonemic awareness was empirically tested and its role, relative to onset-rime awareness, in the acquisition of English spelling and reading abilities was examined. Two L1 phonological awareness tests (i.e., an onset/rime oddity test and a nucleus/coda oddity test) were administered to a total of 192 Chinese-speaking fourth-graders. The children were selected and categorized based on their performances on the two L1 phonological awareness tests: 29 children with good onset-rime awareness and good phonemic awareness, 29 children with good onset-rime awareness but poor phonemic awareness, and 26 children with poor onset-rime awareness and poor phonemic awareness. The three groups of children were then tested on their abilities to spell and read English pseudowords. Before taking the English pseudoword spelling and reading tasks, the children were provided with eight opportunities to master the requisite letter-sound knowledge for the success in spelling and reading the pseudowords. The results showed that Chinese-speaking children demonstrated phonological awareness at the phonemic level, though varying in degree. Considered along with individual differences in digit span and English receptive vocabulary, children with better phonological awareness at both the onset-rime level and the phonemic level performed better in English pseudoword spelling than children with better onset-rime awareness but poorer phonemic awareness, who in turn, performed better than children with poorer phonological awareness at both levels. Finally, children with better phonemic awareness outperformed the other two groups of children with poorer phonemic awareness in pseudoword reading. Onset-rime awareness did not seem to play a significant role in pseudoword reading. These results support and extend other studies suggesting that the acquisition of English spelling and reading abilities in Chinese-speaking children benefits from the phonological awareness obtained during the course of first language acquisition and that the beneficial effect varies with the levels of phonological awareness.