One of my concerns has been how children behave in a crowded classroom with few available opportunities to interact and rehearse the lesson with their peers and teacher. This research paper allows me to explore how teacher`s directives/ manners  (verbal & non-verbal communication) during the English lesson,  impact and fix children`s behaviours temporarily.  I have conducted this emprirical case study in a religious catholic, monolingual, Spanish school conformed only by girls aged 7-9, who are in the third level of its primary level.  As my interest was to analyze the talk of my purpose sampling (teacher-student) and the interactive behaviour in the natural occurring situation in this social setting, the method I chose was the analysis of social interaction, on Conversation Analysis. This allows me to unfold the talk-in-interaction and concentrate on micro-analytic situations using the standard convention to transcribe my selected analysis. Therefore, the contribution of this paper is to explore and demonstrate how disciplinary acts were deilvered by the teacher affecting the child`s subjectivity and performance in a crowded classroom.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PED - Renata Pascoto.pdf: 411874 bytes, checksum: 55c651ebfabbdefc6e4bdd609638501c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Human sexuality is a theme that awakes interest of the society as a whole, by raising curiosity, anticipation, besides being one more determinant of every individual s personality formation. Former studies have suggested that, far before age three, children start to categorize objects and express gender-based preference, that is, they tend to choose objects which, according to their culture, are appropriate to their biological sex. This research deals with the early manifestations of gender identity. It aims at investigating whether young children´s behavior is associated to their sexual categories: male and female. 20 children have taken part of the experiment: 10 girls and 10 boys between 16 and 18 months of age coming from middle-low income households. The children have been filmed in the presence of toys considered to be adequate either to female or male gender. Their preferential choices and toy handling period has been assessed. The results have showed that since 16 to 18 months of age, boys and girls make different choices based on the Male/Female dichotomy, and express preference for toys which are regarded in their culture as suitable to the sexual category to which they belong / A sexualidade humana é um tema que desperta o interesse da sociedade de forma geral, promovendo curiosidade, expectativas e também é mais uma condição de formação da personalidade de todo indivíduo. Estudos anteriores sugerem que bem antes dos três anos de idade, as crianças começam a categorizar os objetos e manifestam preferências em função do gênero, ou seja, tendem a escolher aqueles que em sua cultura são considerados apropriados ao seu sexo biológico. Esta pesquisa trata das manifestações precoces de identidade de gênero. O objetivo foi investigar se as crianças mais jovens manifestam comportamentos relacionados às categorias sexuais: masculinas e femininas. Participaram deste experimento 20 crianças, sendo 10 meninas e 10 meninos, com idades entre 16 e 18 meses e de nível socioeconômico médio baixo. As crianças foram filmadas na presença de brinquedos considerados como sendo apropriados ao gênero masculino ou feminino. Foram analisadas as escolhas preferenciais e o tempo de manipulação. Os resultados sugerem que desde a idade de 16 a 18 meses, os meninos e meninas fazem escolhas diferenciadas, de acordo com a dicotomia Masculino/Feminino, e mostram preferência pelos brinquedos que em sua cultura são considerados adequados à categoria sexual a que pertencem