The aim of the present study is, firstly, to investigate the amount of Swedish and French that is produced by teachers and students in the foreign language classroom and, secondly, to examine in which situations the interlocutors code-switch and for what purposes the two languages are used. The study is based on empirical data consisting of audio recordings of interactions taking place in two different classrooms in Sweden. The study is carried out within an interactionist perspective on language teaching and learning, stressing that learning is situated in learners’ social and interactional practices. The empirical material has been categorized into five different groups according to the participation structure of each interaction and then analysed in two different parts, one quantitative and one qualitative. The quantitative analysis of the corpus established that the Swedish language is present in each of the categories. The results of the count of every turn and word pronounced in each language in the corpus show that many turns expressed by both teachers and students consist of a mixture of Swedish and French. This switching between different codes is the main object of the qualitative analysis of the corpus. The results of the qualitative analysis indicate that the participation structure and the choice of activity types and how these are organised in the classroom are decisive for teachers’ and students’ code-switching. Furthermore, the teachers’ actions concerning the choice of language for the interaction as well as their strategies to deal with the presence of both languages are conclusive for the students’ oral production of French in class. The analysis also reveals that the more the teachers use the target language in a consistent way, the more the students try to express themselves in French even if they often code-switch. The study points out the complexity of speaking French in a classroom context, where the teachers have to deal with the fact that the Swedish language is almost always present and used by the learners for different purposes. / IPACLE

Esta pesquisa investigou o efeito da instrução implícita e explícita no desenvolvimento da competência sociolinguística em aprendizes brasileiros de italiano. Como definida aqui, a competência sociolinguística constitui o conhecimento que permite ao aprendiz reconhecer e produzir variedades linguísticas adequadas a gêneros textuais orais e escritos com diferentes graus de formalidade. Na primeira etapa da pesquisa, foram coletados na Itália quatro corpora de gêneros textuais produzidos por italianos, a saber: 140 e-mails; 13 interações em plantão docente; 10 entrevistas e 18 históricos de mensagens de texto enviadas pelo celular. A partir dos dados reunidos, foram conduzidas análises com o intuito de identificar fenômenos marcados em diamesia e diafasia que pudessem, posteriormente, ser abordados por meio da instrução em sala de aula. Com base nas análises, foi constatada a existência de seis traços linguísticos capazes de diferenciar os quatro gêneros textuais no plano da formalidade e do canal empregado na comunicação, foram eles: 1) a expressão da posterioridade verbal; 2) as conjunções adversativas, causais, concessivas e conclusivas; 3) as unidades lexicais alteradas; 4) os superlativos absolutos; 5) os deslocamentos à esquerda e à direita; e 6) os pronomes relativos. Passamos, então, à etapa subsequente da pesquisa: a formulação dos cursos experimentais. Ambos os cursos tiveram duração de 20 horas, que foram divididas em cinco unidades de trabalho. Participaram do experimento didático 22 aprendizes, dos quais 11 fizeram parte do grupo submetido à instrução explícita e 11 do grupo que recebeu instrução implícita. Para distinguir a instrução implícita da explícita, adotamos as propostas de Ellis (1998), Housen e Pierrard (2005), Doughty e Williams (1998), entre outros, diferenciando o curso explícito pela presença de momentos voltados à reflexão metalinguística indutiva (GAUGHIER et al., 2014) e pelo oferecimento de feedback corretivo explícito (LYSTER; RANTA, 1997). No curso implícito, por outro lado, a instrução foi realizada por meio de perguntas de compreensão sobre o input (VANPATTEN, 2004; WONG, 2004), de atividades de revisão colaborativa (FIGUEIREDO, 2006; CARVALHO, 2006) e de atividades de listasíntese (SCHNEUWLY; DOLZ, 2010). A coleta de dados nos dois grupos se deu pela realização de três testes aplicados antes e depois da instrução em sala de aula. Dois testes foram construídos para eliciar conhecimento declarativo e um para eliciar conhecimento processual (ELLIS, 2009). A comparação do desempenho dos aprendizes revelou que a instrução gerou efeitos na competência sociolinguística em ambos os grupos, porém houve efeitos mais significativos para o grupo que recebeu instrução explícita. Nesse grupo, houve alteração no desempenho, sobretudo, nas medidas mais relacionadas ao conhecimento declarativo - o teste de recepção e o de produção escrita - enquanto no grupo que recebeu instrução implícita as modificações se deram, principalmente, quanto a aspectos relativos à estrutura composicional dos gêneros textuais. / This research investigated the effect of implicit and explicit instruction on the development of sociolinguistic competence in Brazilian learners of Italian. As defined here, sociolinguistic competence consists in the knowledge that allows the learner to recognize and produce linguistic varieties appropriate to oral and written textual genres with different degrees of formality. In the first stage of the research, we collected in Italy four corpora of textual genres produced by Italians, namely: 140 e-mails; 13 professor-student advising sessions; 10 interviews and 18 mobile phone chat histories. We performed analyses of the gathered data with the purpose of identifying phenomena marked in the diamesic and diaphasic dimensions that could later be addressed in classroom instruction. The analyses led to the identification of six linguistic traits capable of differentiating the four textual genres in terms of formality and of the channel used in the communication: 1) the expression of verbal posteriority; 2) adversative, causal, concessive and conclusive conjunctions; 3) altered lexical units; 4) absolute superlatives; 5) left and right dislocation; and 6) relative pronouns. We then moved on to the subsequent stage of the research: the formulation of the experimental courses. Both courses lasted 20 hours, which were divided into five units of work. Twenty-two learners participated in the teaching experiment and were divided into two groups: 11 learners were in the explicit group and 11 in the implicit group. In order to differentiate the techniques of implicit and explicit instruction, we adopted the proposals of Ellis (1998), Housen and Pierrard (2005), Doughty and Williams (1998), among others. Therefore, on the one hand, the explicit course included the presence of moments focused on inductive metalinguistic reflection (GAUGHIER et al., 2014) and the use of explicit corrective feedback (LYSTER; RANTA, 1997); on the other hand, in the implicit course, the techniques consisted in comprehension questions about the input (VANPATTEN, 2004; WONG, 2004), collaborative review tasks (FIGUEIREDO, 2006; CARVALHO, 2006) and list-synthesis activities (SCHNEUWLY; DOLZ, 2010). The data in the two groups were collected using three tests, which were applied before and after the instruction in the classroom. Two tests were constructed to elicit declarative knowledge and one to elicit procedural knowledge (ELLIS, 2009). The comparison of learners\' performance revealed that the instruction generated effects on sociolinguistic competence in both groups, but there were more significant effects in the group submitted to explicit instruction techniques. In this group, there was a change in performance, especially in the measures most related to declarative knowledge - the reception test and the written test - while in the implicit group the modifications affected mainly aspects related to the compositional structure of the textual genres.

Orientador: João Antonio Telles / Banca: Douglas Altamiro Consolo / Banca: Nelson Viana / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa objetivou-se estudar a formação inicial do professor de LE no contexto de laboratório de teletandem. Foca-se em quatro aspectos na graduação do professor de línguas: a orientação, a mediação, a reflexão e a aprendizagem em teletandem. Nesta pesquisa discute-se, através de um recurso tecnológico, o módulo Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, a orientação, a mediação e a reflexão pelos alunos-professores de uma universidade estadual paulista, inseridos em um laboratório de teletandem. Neste laboratório, os alunos do curso de Letras, denominados aqui de alunos-orientadores, ministram sessões de orientação teórica e tecnológica para os alunos ingressantes no projeto Teletandem Brasil: língua estrangeira para todos, isto é, aqueles que ainda não iniciaram o seu processo de aprendizagem de língua estrangeira em teletandem. Assim, a pesquisa em questão constitui-se basicamente em três etapas: i) observação das sessões de orientação presenciais ministradas pelos alunos-orientadores no laboratório de teletandem; ii) leitura, reflexão e análise do diário-reflexivo dos alunos-orientadores acerca destas sessões de orientação teórica e iii) realização das sessões de mediação online com os alunos-orientadores pelo módulo Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro. O interesse no desenvolvimento da pesquisa surgiu pelas necessidades e inquietações na minha experiência como aluna do curso de Letras, isto é, como professora de língua estrangeira em formação inicial carente de maior orientação e reflexão da natureza que este novo contexto de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas em tandem permite oferecer. Desta forma, objetivou-se, especificamente investigar quais os possíveis impactos da experiência de orientação, dada pelo aluno de Letras, futuro professor de LE, no... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research study aimed at investigating the foreign language teacher‟s pre-service education in a teletandem‟s laboratory context. Specifically, it focuses on four aspects in the foreign language teacher‟s pre-service education: counseling, mediation, reflection and learning in teletandem. This study discusses, through a new technological resource, the Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, the counseling, mediation and the reflection by the pre-service students from a state university in São Paulo state, inside a teletandem laboratory. In this laboratory, the undergraduate foreigner teachers, called at this study of counselor-students, provide theoretical and technological counseling sessions to the freshman students in the thematic project named Teletandem Brasil: língua estrangeira para todos, in other words, for those students who have not started their foreign language learning in teletandem process yet. Therefore, this research is basically constituted by three stages: i) observation of the face to face counseling sessions given by the counselor-students in the laboratory; ii) reading, reflection and analysis of the reflective diaries of the counselor-students about these face to face counseling sessions and iii) realization of the online mediation sessions with the counselor-students through the Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro. The interest to achieve this research arose by the needs and concerns within my experience as an undergraduate foreign language teacher, in other words, as a teacher in a pre-service education lacking more counseling and reflection of the nature that this new context of teaching and learning languages in-tandem can provide. Thus, the study aimed to investigate what are the possible impacts of the counseling sessions‟ experience, given by the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The aim of this study is to investigate what educational approaches and strategies that are used by five teachers of English as a second language (ESL) and how they differ between three different schools. This was done through reviewing literature about educational approaches and strategies in ESL and analyzing the responses from a questionnaire given to five teachers in grades seven to nine at three different schools. The results showed a wide usage of the following approaches and strategies: using computers, including drama and role-playing, watching films and TV programs in English, listening to radio, news, or songs in English, using code-switching, encouraging pupils to speak like native speakers, teaching about cultures where English is spoken, and promoting discussions and social interaction.   The results of this study showed that most of the differences exist between the individual teachers rather than between the schools, when it comes to the use of and attitudes towards these approaches and strategies. However, the two which differed the most, judging from the responses, were: using code-switching and encouraging pupils to speak like native speakers. In these two cases it was possible to see differences both between specific schools and teachers.

Cette thèse prend pour objet des situations d’apprentissage guidé du français, en face à face et en dehors de cadres institutionnels, se déroulant dans le contexte multilingue du Luxembourg. Elle décrit et analyse des interactions entre des locuteurs plurilingues adultes dont la première langue est le chinois ou le coréen et des locuteurs plurilingues agissant en tant qu’experts pour la langue française. Plus particulièrement, dans l’optique d’une analyse qualitative des données, ce travail s’efforce d’appliquer les outils de l’analyse conversationnelle d’inspiration plutôt anglo-américaine à une vision didactique de tradition de langue française. Pour ce faire, il est fait appel aux notions de compétence communicative (Hymes 1972), de dramatisation (Goffman 1991) et de rôle social (Cicurel 1988). L’analyse montre que dans des situations d’apprentissage-en-interaction, les apprenants et les experts ont recours à une diversité de ressources interactionnelles liées à des activités de dramatisation : le dialogue-en-situation, la voix, la séquence préfabriquée, la séquentialité discursive, la réparation, la séquence explicative, le récit préenregistré, l’évaluation, le récit enchâssé, l’identité, le récit conversationnel de l’expert, l’interview, le récit conversationnel de l’apprenant et le mode éditeur. Pour conclure, un rapprochement est opéré entre ces activités de dramatisation et la didactique du FLE, à plusieurs niveaux, sous la forme de recommandations suggestions. / The current thesis focuses on guided language learning exchanges in French, in a face-to-face non-institutional setting in the multilingual context of Luxembourg. It describes and analyzes interactions between adult plurilingual speakers whose first language is Chinese or Korean and multilingual speakers acting as experts for the French language. Taking a qualitative analysis approach, our work strives to apply the tools of conversation analysis of a rather Anglo-American origin to a vision of “didactique” corresponding to the French language tradition. To this end, we rely in particular on the notions of communicative competence(Hymes 1972), dramatization (Goffman 1991) and social role (Cicurel 1988). The analysis of learning-in-interaction data shows the enactment of a variety of dramatization-related interactional resources by both learners and experts: the situated dialogue, the voice, the formulaic language, the discursive sequentiality, the repair, the explanatory sequence, the pre-recorded conversational narrative, the evaluation, the embedded narrative, the identity, the conversational narrative of the expert, the interview, the conversational narrative of the learner and the editor mode. A few recommendations-suggestions are proposed in the conclusion, focusing on how these dramatization activities could inform, at different levels, the development of French teaching and learning.

Esta pesquisa, por meio da análise de um livro didático de língua inglesa, propõe o diálogo entre o campo de ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa e a perspectiva enunciativa de linguagem de Émile Benveniste. O estudo procura comprovar a hipótese de que há livros didáticos em língua inglesa que apresentam atividades que envolvem interlocuções possíveis de serem abordadas em sala de aula por uma perspectiva enunciativa da linguagem. Com o diálogo entre os estudos linguísticos de Émile Benveniste – reflexões sobre linguagem, língua, enunciação e discurso, presentes em textos pertencentes aos Problemas de linguística geral I e Problemas de linguística geral II – e os estudos voltados à aquisição de segunda língua, tornou-se possível operar deslocamentos, que resultaram em um novo conhecimento sobre essa relação enunciação e ensino-aprendizagem de segunda língua, com a consideração dos seguintes aspectos: a) a intersubjetividade na linguagem; b) a situação de discurso e a atribuição de referência; c) a relação forma-sentido; d) os valores culturais impressos no discurso. Tais aspectos, tratados teoricamente nos dois primeiros capítulos, foram norteadores da metodologia no terceiro capítulo e da análise no quarto capítulo. Na análise, foram selecionados quatro grupos de atividades do livro didático de língua inglesa Alive! 8, obra distribuída para a rede pública de ensino por intermédio do Plano Nacional do Livro Didático no ano de 2017. Observou-se que as atividades analisadas: a) apresentam marcas de intersubjetividade, visto que o livro didático prevê que a comunicação intersubjetiva se concretize em sala de aula; b) atuam como provocadoras de referência e permitem que o locutor-aluno atribua essas referências pelo discurso; c) consideram forma e sentido como instâncias interdependentes, permitindo aos locutores-alunos que eles compreendam e reconheçam as unidades da língua inglesa em sala de aula como integradas umas às outras; d) abordam questões relacionadas a costumes e valores das duas línguas envolvidos no processo de aprendizagem da segunda língua. Todavia, foi possível verificar que algumas das atividades analisadas necessitam ter seu escopo ampliado no contexto de sala de aula de língua inglesa. Dessa forma, a pesquisa aponta, na conclusão, que o professor é o responsável por garantir que as atividades presentes no livro didático possam ser abordadas por uma perspectiva enunciativa da linguagem, trazendo contribuições ao processo de aprendizagem de inglês como segunda língua. / This research, through the analysis of an English textbook, proposes the dialogue between the field of teaching and learning of English and Émile Benveniste’s enunciative perspective of language. The study aims to prove the hypothesis that there are textbooks in English that present activities that involve possible dialogues to be addressed in the classroom through an enunciative perspective of the language. With the dialogue between Émile Benveniste's linguistic studies – reflections about language, utterance and discourse present in the texts belonging to Problems of general linguistics I and Problems of general linguistics II – and studies on second language acquisition, it became possible to operate displacements, which resulted in a new knowledge about this relation between enunciation and second language teaching and learning, considering the following aspects: a) the intersubjectivity in language; b) the situation of discourse and reference attribution; c) the form-meaning relationship; d) the cultural values printed in the discourse. These aspects were considered theoretically in the first two chapters, and they guided the methodology in the third chapter and the analysis in the fourth chapter. In the analysis, four groups of activities were selected from the English textbook Alive! 8, a book distributed to the public school system through the National Program of Textbook in 2017. It was observed that the analyzed activities: a) present marks of intersubjectivity, since the textbook predicts that intersubjective communication is materialized in the classroom; b) act as reference provocateurs and allow the student to assign these references through discourse; c) consider form and meaning as interdependent instances, allowing students to understand and recognize the units of language in the classroom as integrated to each other; d) address issues related to customs and values of the two languages involved in the process of learning the second language. However, it was possible to verify that some of the analyzed activities need to have their scope expanded in the context of English classroom. In this way, the research indicates, in the conclusion, that the teacher is responsible for ensuring that the activities in the textbook can be approached by an enunciative perspective of language, bringing contributions to the process of learning English as a second language.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:29:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciane Guimaraes.pdf: 1021991 bytes, checksum: 3f8d62185a853edf4ab8eca21e84fd1b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-30 / The purpose of this study was to develop a collaborative research with the two teachers of English one of them being the researcher herself of a public university in the state of Goiás aiming at their professional development by means of reflective sessions about theoretical texts and about their own practices. This professional development, needless to say, is of great importance once the university is responsible for the education of the teachers that work in the city and in the neighboring towns. Nevertheless, this is a collaborative study that, differently from the majority, focuses on its difficulties as from the very beginning it was detected impediments to the collaboration between the participants and difficulties in promoting changes in the practical and theoretical conceptions of the participant teacher. Thus, as soon as these difficulties in terms of collaboration were identified, this work was restructured and its main objective became the analysis of the difficulties in the collaborative research by means of the following objectives: a) analyze the professional identity of the participant; b) analyze the professional identity of the researcher and the relationship established between the participant and the researcher; and c) examine the consequences of the reflective sessions in terms of change in the teaching practice. As theoretical background, three pillars of scientific knowledge gave support to the present research: a) studies of identity according to the cultural theory, and also the concept of identity according to the perspective of applied linguistics; b) the hierarchical relationship between the scientific knowledge and the practical knowledge of the teacher; c) Reflective teaching and the process of teacher change. The analysis of the data evidenced that the profile of the participant teacher as well as the profile of the researcher and the relationship established between them were aspects that inhibited the collaboration between both participants. The lack of collaboration between them, in turn, had as a consequence the failure in the promotion of changes and professional development of the participant teacher. As a result, this study demonstrates that collaboration in investigation contexts where there is clear asymmetry regarding authority and/or to official knowledge represents a difficult challenge to surpass. Besides that, the difficulty in collaboration can, in many cases, undermine the main objective of the reflective approach, which is the promotion of professional development and emancipatory pedagogical practice. / O objetivo deste estudo foi desenvolver uma pesquisa colaborativa com as duas professoras de inglês uma das quais a própria pesquisadora de uma universidade estadual do interior de Goiás, visando ao desenvolvimento profissional de ambas por meio de sessões reflexivas sobre textos teóricos e sobre suas práticas pedagógicas, desenvolvimento esse de grande relevância para a universidade, já que esta forma os professores de inglês que atuam na cidade e nas regiões circunvizinhas. Todavia, este é um estudo colaborativo no processo reflexivo que, diferentemente dos demais, enfoca seus entraves, visto que logo no início da pesquisa evidenciaram-se dificuldades na colaboração entre as participantes e também na promoção de mudanças na prática e nas concepções teóricas da participante. Assim, ao se identificarem as dificuldades em relação à colaboração, este trabalho foi reestruturado e o objetivo principal passou a ser a análise das dificuldades da pesquisa colaborativa por meio dos seguintes objetivos: a) analisar a identidade profissional da professora participante; b) analisar o perfil profissional da pesquisadora e a relação pesquisadora participante que se estabeleceu durante a instalação da pesquisa; e c) examinar as consequências das sessões reflexivas em termos de mudança da prática docente. Como aporte teórico, três pilares do conhecimento científico sustentaram a presente pesquisa: a) os estudos identitários na perspectiva dos estudos culturais e da linguística aplicada; b) a relação hierárquica entre o conhecimento acadêmico e o conhecimento prático do professor em sala de aula; c) o ensino reflexivo e o processo de mudança do professor. A análise dos dados evidenciou que tanto o perfil da participante quanto o meu perfil como pesquisadora e a relação que se estabeleceu entre nós foram aspectos que dificultaram a colaboração. A ausência de colaboração entre ambas, por sua vez, teve como consequência a dificuldade de promover mudanças na prática e o desenvolvimento profissional da participante. Destarte, este estudo demonstrou que o caráter colaborativo em contextos de investigação marcados por relações assimétricas em relação à autoridade e/ou ao conhecimento tido como oficial é um desafio difícil de ser superado. Além disso, esse entrave na colaboração muitas vezes compromete o objetivo principal da abordagem reflexiva, que é a promoção do desenvolvimento profissional com vistas a uma prática pedagógica emancipatória.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Regiane Souza Camargo Moreira.pdf: 1461694 bytes, checksum: 958e03446c791567c17fffaf0062a90f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-17 / This research, in the context of Languages for Specific Purposes, with an emphasis in Spanish for Specific Purposes, was conducted in order to meet the needs of a group of students of the college of technology in business management, as well as teachers that work as professionals in this area in the market; identify the student‟s assessment about the course plan of the Spanish discipline and find out contributions to reformulate the plan of the course of this discipline. The theoretical approach on the Languages for Specific Purposes used in this study focuses primarily on the assumptions of Hutchinson and Waters (1987) and Dudley-Evans and St. John (1998), among others. Data were collected through the following instruments: questionnaires, administered to students and teachers of Business Management course, semi-structured interviews with students and teachers who work as managers and that use the Spanish language in the professional market; and also the coordinator of the course, and documents about the Business Management course. This study is justified by the importance of Spanish language training for students in Business Management Technology. The results of this research will be used as contributions for future proposals to adapt the course plan of the Spanish course, currently offered to these students / Esta pesquisa, inserida no contexto de Ensino de Línguas para Fins Específicos, com ênfase em Espanhol para Fins Específicos, foi conduzida com o objetivo de conhecer as necessidades de um grupo de alunos do curso superior de tecnologia em Gestão Empresarial, bem como de professores que atuam como profissionais dessa área no mercado de trabalho; saber qual a avaliação dos alunos em relação ao plano de curso da disciplina Espanhol e apontar subsídios que possam contribuir com a reelaboração do plano de curso dessa disciplina. O aporte teórico referente à Abordagem de Línguas para Fins Específicos utilizado neste trabalho focaliza, principalmente, os pressupostos de Hutchinson e Waters (1987) e Dudley-Evans e St. John (1998), entre outros. Os dados foram coletados através dos seguintes instrumentos: questionários, aplicados aos alunos e aos professores do curso de Gestão Empresarial; entrevistas semi-estruturadas com alunos e professores que atuam como gestores e fazem uso do espanhol no mercado profissional, e também com a coordenadora do curso; e documentos sobre o curso de Gestão Empresarial. Este estudo justifica-se pela importância da língua espanhola para a formação profissional dos estudantes de tecnologia em Gestão Empresarial. Os resultados desta pesquisa deverão ser utilizados como subsídios para propostas futuras de adequação do plano de curso da disciplina Espanhol, atualmente oferecida a esses alunos

Diversas pesquisas apontam para uma força da tradição imperando nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa. As teorias linguísticas chegam às escolas, mas abalam timidamente as aulas de gramática normativa tradicional. Nossa pesquisa segue um percurso que parte de nossa experiência profissional, de nossas indagações, para tentar investigar as nuances, dentro de um determinado contexto escolar, que dificultam o processo de aliar a teoria à prática na sala de aula. Partimos da hipótese de que este apego à tradição e o foco em atividades metalinguísticas pouco contribuem para uma aprendizagem significativa da língua. Tendo em vista testes nacionais e internacionais que apontam inadequações no uso da modalidade escrita da língua (leitura e produção escrita) pelos alunos que concluem o Ensino Fundamental e a ênfase histórica das aulas de Língua Portuguesa em atividades gramaticais de metalinguagem (nomenclaturas e classificações), questionamo-nos como as aulas de Língua Portuguesa podem ser reconfiguradas para potencializar o desenvolvimento das habilidades linguísticas dos alunos. Assim, realizamos um estudo qualitativo com duas professoras e suas cinco turmas de 9º ano, em uma escola pública municipal de São Paulo. As professoras nos forneceram dados por meio de relatos escritos de suas vivências, questionário e conversações informais cotidianas. Realizamos Avaliação Diagnóstica e Formativa (ADeF) do desempenho linguístico dos alunos, analisamos cadernos de alunos indicados pelas professoras como os melhores de suas turmas, planejamos e conduzimos uma oficina de linguagem (atividades linguísticas e epilinguísticas) com esses alunos. Alguns dos resultados indicam que as dificuldades das professoras em aliar teoria e prática estão relacionadas com a formação inicial e preliminar de cada uma e não necessariamente com a formação universitária e contínua em que se constitui o conhecimento teórico; levantamos fortes evidências de que a maneira como ensinamos reproduz ou é fortemente influenciada pela maneira como aprendemos; constatamos que a ausência da ADeF como prática efetiva se apresenta como um importante elemento que dificulta o conhecimento (por parte do professor) do que considerar no processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Ainda foi possível verificar que ADeF não compõe um critério de formação das turmas. Um professor pesquisador que busque aliar teoria e prática deve estar preparado para enfrentar inúmeros desafios e criar oportunidades para crianças e jovens se desenvolverem, preparando-se para se envolverem com as incertezas do cotidiano. Isso pode significar quão importantes serão, para professores e alunos, as novas vivências, por meio de oficinas contendo práticas mais eficazes para podermos nos desvencilhar de algumas amarras do passado, ou seja, da formação preliminar ou formatação preliminar a que fomos submetidos. / Previous knolwedge and school context underlying theory application to practice: diagnostic testing and formative assessment as a starting point to language and epilanguage activities Several studies point to the power of tradition that rules Portuguese classes. Language theories get to schools but little they influence or change the traditional, prescriptive grammar-based classes. This study starts off from our own professional experience and the questions arisen within a specific context in order to investigate the nuances that make it difficult to relate theory to practice in the classroom. We begin with the hypothesis that this attachment to theory and the focus on metalinguistic activities contribute very little to meaningful language learning. With national and international exams in mind, which point at the inappropriate use of the written language (reading and writing skills) students who are finishing middle school have, and also with the historical emphasis on metalinguistic grammar activities the Portuguese language classes have (exploring synthatic categories and classifying), we enquire how Portuguese language classes can be reconfigured to optimize students development of linguisctic skills. Thus,we undertook a qualitative study with two teachers and their five groups of 9th graders in a public municipal school in São Paulo. We gathered data from the teachers by means of written reports of teaching experience, questionnaire and daily informal talks. Students also took a diagnostic formative test (in Portuguese, ADeF) in order to have their linguistic performance assessed and we analized the notebooks of the best students in the classes, according to the teachers. We also planned and carried a language workshop with the students, which included linguistic and epilinguistic activities. Some results indicate that some of the difficulties teacher have in applying theory to practice are related to their schooling, not necessarily from their university undergraduation courses or continuing teacher education courses in which the theoretical knowledge is built. Strong evidence showed that the way we teach reproduce or is strongly influencced by the wahy we learn. We also xxx that the lack of ADef as an efficient practice is an important element that makes it difficult for teachers to decide to what to consider in the teachinglearning process.Moreover, it was possible to identify that ADeF is not an criteria used to form the groups. A teacher-researcher that aims to relate theory and practice should be prepared to face several challenges and create opportunities to children and youngsters, preparing them to deal with the daily uncertanties. This may mean how important new experiences will be to teacher and students in workshops that contain more efficient practices so that we can undo some of the knots from our past schooling or preliminary formatting

In a globalized world, teaching English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) requires mastery of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Deploying ICC has many benefits, especially with teaching and learning English, because it is a preeminent necessity for intercultural communication today. In ESL and EFL contexts at college and university levels, learners and instructors interface with other learners and instructors who have various languages and cultures, so there is a need for implementing ICC, because it encourages instructors and learners to communicate effectively with others using both their native and target languages, as well as their native and target cultures. Hence, there is a need for ICC, mediational tools, such as translanguaging pedagogy, as well as use of a peer-coaching process. Also, there is a need to evaluate ICC use through various kinds of assessment, such as self-assessment (which includes self-reflection), identity assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment. In order to find the validity of various aspects of ICC, the mediational tools, the peer-coaching process, various kinds of assessment, and self-reflection, the researcher used a mixed-method study that contained quantitative and qualitative data. The study was conducted over the summer of 2016, and the participants were graduate students in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). This thesis validates aspects of ICC, mediational tools, and assessments, as well as the importance of self-reflection in evaluating and improving individuals’ ICC.