本研究旨在探討文章結構與主題知識對國小學童說明文寫作表現的影響。 正式實驗的受試包括台北縣秀朗國小五年級三個班級共 138名學童，分別 接受文章結構明示、暗示與不提示三種實驗處理，然後受試均各寫一篇對 主題知識熟悉與不熟悉的說明文，依變項為組織結構與內容觀念兩個寫作 表現的成績。研究結果發現，在扣除智力與國語科成績的影響後，在寫作 組織結構的表現上，提示文章結構並沒有幫助，反而是以不提示文章結構 的控制組表現最優；在內容觀念向度的表現上，以暗示文章結構的方式最 有助於寫作表現，而且文章結構的提示方式與寫作主題知識對內容觀念產 出也具有交互作用的效果，當寫作主題熟悉時，暗示文章結構最能提高內 容觀念向度的寫作表現。無論是在內容觀念或組織結構，都是以當寫作者 對寫作主題知識熟悉時的表現優於當寫作者對寫作主題知識不熟悉時，因 此本研究建議，在寫作教學上，教師應該針對學生所熟悉的事物來命題， 同時與其他學科的領域知識相結合，以豐富寫作內容。

The intention of this research is to develop a homiletical approach that will better equip the preacher in proclaiming the Glory of God. The study comes in a context where there has been a legitimate shift in emphasis in the direction of the listener, but it is the contention of this study that the pendulum has swung away from the pre-eminence of God that should permeate sermons being preached. Having established the need for a renewed apprehension of God in preaching the writer examines the general preaching landscape leading up to and including the 21st century. This part of the study includes some of the influences on the present day understanding on the role of knowledge and the questioning of God’s ability to communicate truth to man. The study also shows how these influences have led to a focus in preaching on human feeling and experience. The weight of Gods glory is then examined with the consequent implication of God’s passion for His own glory and the need for all preaching therefore to be Theo-centric. This is reinforced by an examination of the transcendence of God, unfolding the dangers of domesticating God by eliminating a sense of mystery as to the infinite nature of God. An overview of more recent developments in homiletical theory is examined demonstrating the conspicuous absence of the pre-eminence of God in preaching. A summary of the following three preaching models is presented; expository, narrative and topical, to provide a basis for later comparison. Key theological convictions and practices necessary to proclaim the Glory of God are then identified from the literature study. These are then used in a questionnaire compiled to be used in churches where the listeners are exposed to the three identified preaching models. The results from the empirical study is then analysed in the light of the theory presented in the literature studies. On the basis of these outcomes the following guidelines were recommended: -- Guidelines on determining the content of the sermon. -- Guidelines on the focus of the sermon. -- Guidelines on the content of the sermon. -- Guidelines on believing that God is primarily concerned about Himself leading to greater confidence in God’s grace to sinful people. And then finally, concluding that if the desired goal of proclaiming the Glory of God is to be consistently accomplished, then the expository model of preaching is best suited to the task. / Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

In an inner-city elementary school, students continue to lag in reading proficiency, and implementation of research-based, district-mandated teaching strategies is not well understood. The purpose of this case study was to explore teachers' perceptions of mandated, read-aloud expository text strategies in K-2 classrooms. The conceptual framework was Vygotsky's social constructivism model of learning, which envisions students learning by interacting with teachers and peers, in this case, using read-aloud strategies, until they become autonomous, expository readers. The research questions focused on benefits and challenges of the implementation of read-aloud expository text by K-2 teachers who were given a 5-year mandate by the school to use strategies of scaffolding, graphic organizers, think-alouds, and text talk. Data were gathered from 5 teachers who volunteered to participate and were trained in the strategies. Data collection included individual interviews, collaborating interviews, reflective journals, and field notes. Open coding and thematic analysis identified 6 themes of teacher perceptions, including benefits, situational strategies, and explanations for use, challenges, support, and implementation. Throughout the data collection process, teachers suggested the use of Text Talk Kit materials. These kits, in use by other districts, may be beneficial to all teachers and may lead to social change by allowing teachers to access materials to better instruct all struggling readers, a benefit across all curricular areas and for all students.

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Based on students’ declining reading comprehension there is a need to develop systematic explicit instruction in teaching reading. This study is based on theories of metacognition, reading comprehension, reading instruction and Legitimation Code Theory and has the reading triangle as a model for teaching expository texts. The model has been tested in one class with eighth-grade students. The students have estimated their own reading comprehension and how they worked before, during and after reading an expository text, both before and after work with the reading triangle. The students in this survey have been taught and have worked with texts based on three levels of the reading triangle. The materials in the study are students’ self-assessments, texts with underlining and comments and interviews with the students and their teacher. The results show that the model, the reading triangle, as a part of an approach to develop literacy, with modelling and metacognitive textual conversations, can contribute to an understanding of the students’ reading process and knowledge of how global and local aspects of texts – such as purpose, text structure and choice of words – are connected with and influence reading comprehension. The study shows that the link between local and global levels must be explicit, since a focus on details can be detrimental to the overall understanding of texts. The use of the reading triangle in the classroom can also help the teaching move between the concrete and the abstract, enabling students to use the acquired knowledge and insights in new texts and reading situations.

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This research presents a systematic and iterative procedure, as well as theoretical study, on expository sermon construction. The basic approach to sermon design involves the treatment of this subject matter as a design problem, utilizing advanced methodology in engineering design. This includes the modeling technique, the flow-chart method, and the optimization theory. In addition, we use heuristics as the search engine for seeking intelligent and efficient optimum design solutions. The heuristics can best be compared to the "artificial intelligence" or the "wisdom bank," involving six sources of wisdom; these include: talents, gifts, creativity, knowledge, experience and spiritual insights. The results represented in this thesis are believed to have demonstrated original findings in the following areas. First, the subject matter is found to be of a design nature, sharing the common characteristics of a general class of the design discipline, namely, having a 3-stage iterative procedure of the ABA' model. Secondly, a mathematical as well as physical model of the sermon design problem is developed in this study, using both homiletic and hermeneutic principles. The human body is used as the physical model, making it possible for simple visualization of the sermon structure and for performance evaluation. A mathematical model is found to be the "Heuristic Combinatorial Optimization Problem" and consists of eight design variables. Although it is not yet possible to develop a computer-aided protocol to seek solutions, an alternative approach called the "Web-Chart Method" can potentially be adaptable to an interactive computer system in the future. It serves as a two-dimensional "design chart" on paper, in which iterative procedures can be performed manually. The advantage is that the designer can direct his or her heuristic search for optimum solutions with the help of a number of design tools, including the "Insight-Recording Sheet" and the "Analogical Analysis Chart." With these tools, the designer has, at his or her disposal, the ability to search for solutions in sermon design, while still maintaining a global view with all the design variables controlled for. In this research, the principles of combinatorial heuristics applicable to the field of optimum design of expository sermons have been described. They are based on heuristic combinatorial optimization methods in the engineering design field with refinements geared to the homiletic as well as hermeneutic nature of the problem. The approaches represented here would allow a designer to utilize resources that are not otherwise available and/or are not easily manageable. With these research results, one would be able to design sermons innovatively and optimally in a systematic and heuristic-guided manner. Further extension of this work would lead to a new field of research and development in the computer-aided design of expository sermons. Key words: preaching; homiletics; expository preaching; design for preaching; sermon construction; computer-aided sermon design; sermon design optimization; heuristic sermon design; heuristic sermon optimization; heuristic combinatorial optimization. / Practical Theology / D. Th.(Practical Theology)

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:13:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edna Santos de Souza Barbosa.pdf: 1567953 bytes, checksum: b90716cbc17f6d381305c00887af8d3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-25 / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-25T17:25:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Edna Santos de Souza Barbosa.pdf.jpg: 1943 bytes, checksum: cc73c4c239a4c332d642ba1e7c7a9fb2 (MD5) Edna Santos de Souza Barbosa.pdf: 1567953 bytes, checksum: b90716cbc17f6d381305c00887af8d3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-25 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The objective of this dissertation is to study the way that matters of argumentation and tests in a didactic collection for average education are dealt, and aims to contribute with the Argumentation and Test in Scholar Mathematics Project (AProvaME). This concerns a documentary research that aims, by means of the use of categories of the available literature related to the idea of argumentation and test, to investigate the matter: How the chosen collection deals with the Argumentation and Test issue. After the survey of tests and exercises presented in the didactic collection of some selected contents, we conclude that, in Algebra, the collection presents a pedagogical boarding that emphasizes the intellectual test. When the subject is Geometry, the emphasis is in the pragmatic test. In the point of view of the purpose of the exercises, the analysis showed that the tasks for learning of the writing predominate for both Algebra and Geometry. We observed that the characteristics presented in the tasks found in the collection confirm aspects we judged relevant when choosing the collection for analysis / Esta dissertação tem o objetivo de estudar como são tratadas as questões da argumentação e da prova em uma coleção didática para o Ensino Médio, e visa contribuir com o Projeto Argumentação e Prova na Matemática Escolar (AProvaME). Trata-se de pesquisa documental que visa, mediante o uso de categorias da literatura disponível relacionadas a idéia de argumentação e de prova, investigar a questão: Como a coleção escolhida trata a questão da Argumentação e da Prova. Após o levantamento de provas e exercícios apresentados na coleção didática em alguns conteúdos selecionados, concluímos que, em Álgebra, a coleção apresenta uma abordagem pedagógica que enfatiza a prova intelectual. Já em Geometria, há ênfase na prova pragmática. No ponto de vista da finalidade dos exercícios, a análise mostrou que predominam as tarefas para aprendizagem da escrita, tanto para Álgebra quanto para Geometria. Observamos que as características apresentadas nas tarefas encontradas na coleção confirmam aspectos que julgamos relevantes ao escolher a coleção para análise

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