This thesis aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge concerning the adult basic literacy education in the Nordic countries and broaden research on literacy from its traditional focus on verbal texts to include images and visual texts. The thesis comprises a research survey concerning adult literacy and two empirical, exploratory studies focusing on the use of visual texts in the basic Swedish language programme for adult immigrants, Svenskundervisning för invandrare (sfi). The first study presents international and Nordic research on literacy with a focus on current sociocultural, and critical perspectives. Together with the three concepts of mutual respect, meaningfulness and participation, an ‘expansive’ model for adult literacy instruction is also presented. The second study deals with the teachers´ views on appropriate visual materials for second language and literacy teaching. The results show an extensive but diversified usage of visual material but also that literacy teachers pay very close attention to participants´ sociocultural background in their image selection but tend to underestimate their cognitive ability. From a critical perspective the teachers´ statements can be regarded as part of a discursive practice in which they unintentionally contribute to a discourse construction of an identity of deficiency of the learners. The third study examines and compares, how adult second language learners interact with and understand a number of Swedish election posters. The analyses identify processes and variations in the learners´ interaction. The results show that the reconstructions of the visual texts are influenced by the participants´ linguistic, educational and cultural ‘repertoires’, as well as the posters´ graphic, visual and textual design. A certain level of linguistic proficiency as well as formal schooling and knowledge of the current discourse seem to be indispensable for making the intended interpretations.

This research study was designed to explore the effectiveness of pedagogical practices on student literacy learning within a student television context. The study was undertaken in response to practitioner inquiry into the value and worth of school television for student literacy learning. Over the research period this project evolved into a deeply reflective self-study of teaching practice within a technological environment. This research took place in a suburban primary school where school television had been created by students for the previous two years. Twenty-two students aged between 10 and 12 participated in three cycles of action research to investigate how pedagogy influences learning within this context. A range of pedagogical actions designed to influence students’ critical thinking were implemented into action research cycles. The selection of actions for intervention was influenced by an investigation into current literature from the field, and an analysis of existing multi-literacy learning, pedagogical conditions and student views of teaching and learning within student television at the beginning of the research cycles. This study gathered information during research cycles using student learning conversations and student interviews, which provided insight into learning from the point of view of students. Supporting this information were daily researcher observations and end-of-cycle interviews with classroom teachers. Through careful monitoring, analysis and reflection on each research cycle it was clear that strategic pedagogical interventions did positively influence multi-literacy learning. Rather than attempt to measure differences in student learning, this study explored how multi-literacy learning, strategic pedagogy and learning within student television inter-related with one another. This research study identified and explored the complex inter-relationships between pedagogies and multi-literacy learning.

This thesis describes a study that was done with tutors and students in Frontier College’s Beat the Street: Literacy and Basic Skills program. Using a qualitative methodology, it focuses on stories of literacy, life and learning from tutors and students. The author’s own experiences, stories and reflections as a tutor are an important piece of the work. The thesis operates on and argues for the notion that people are made up of their stories, and that they interact with other people and the world through those stories. This research process revealed many ways in which tutor and student perceptions of literacy, learning, and each other were affected by their stories. It also revealed that in the overlaps between stories lies the potential for a moment of profound connection and learning the author describes as resonance. The thesis explores some of the ways resonance was perceived to enhance the literacy environment.

This thesis describes a study that was done with tutors and students in Frontier College’s Beat the Street: Literacy and Basic Skills program. Using a qualitative methodology, it focuses on stories of literacy, life and learning from tutors and students. The author’s own experiences, stories and reflections as a tutor are an important piece of the work. The thesis operates on and argues for the notion that people are made up of their stories, and that they interact with other people and the world through those stories. This research process revealed many ways in which tutor and student perceptions of literacy, learning, and each other were affected by their stories. It also revealed that in the overlaps between stories lies the potential for a moment of profound connection and learning the author describes as resonance. The thesis explores some of the ways resonance was perceived to enhance the literacy environment.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Linguistics, Language and Communication) / The world is becoming increasingly visual (Kress, 2009:1).The visually literate viewer should be able to gather data, place it in context, and determine its validity. A huge visual world opened up for the users of new technology. It is therefore no surprise that definitions of literacy have placed a huge premium on the reader to be able to interpret visual cues. Even in its simplest definition, the ability to read and write, the understanding of the concept of literacy is based on the visual. Although new literacies and recent orthographies also emphasise the role of context and the interaction of different modalities and learning history, like the social practice approach, it also focus on literacy events in which the written word is still the fundamental focus. In other words, (visual) texts remain the point of departure rather than seeing the written word as one part of a larger 'material ecology' of signs and meanings. This means that the majority of studies in the field of literacy focus on the individual's ability to interpret the visual and neglects how other senses permute in literacy events.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 ELEMENTOS PRE-TEXTUAL DFINITIVA.pdf: 149254 bytes, checksum: 82781dc3a64846a05611f6d271206b29 (MD5) VERSAO DEFINITIVA 9 (Salvo Automaticamente).pdf: 46904789 bytes, checksum: 5194a8be9051dddabfdc04dab9f00881 (MD5) / Este estudo aborda o processo de construção dos letramentos acadêmico-científicos na formação de quatro professoras de Língua Portuguesa e uma coordenadora, sendo quatro participantes e a própria pesquisadora. Trata-se de uma pesquisa autoetnográfica e colaborativa. Busca-se, aqui, descrever o processo de construção do letramento acadêmico-científico na formação continuada às margens da universidade e de sua interferência dessa constituição no desenvolvimento pessoal, intelectual e profissional, a fim de contribuir para um debate acerca desse assunto nas universidades públicas da Bahia. Discute-se, também, sobre o diálogo que os sujeitos desta pesquisa, representantes da escola básica, estabeleceram com algumas universidades, compreendendo que esses dois contextos possuem conhecimentos diferentes, mas um não é superior ao outro. Este trabalho oportunizou as participantes vivenciarem situações concretas de ação-reflexão-ação na expectativa de promoverem mudanças no seu ambiente de trabalho. Os dados da pesquisa englobam os registros audiovisuais, de aproximadamente 250h, durante as interações entre as participantes nos encontros para estudo. Também compõem esses dados produções gêneros acadêmicos (resenhas, resumos, artigos acadêmicos e comunicação oral), gêneros escolares (projetos e sequências didáticas) e também relatos escritos de história de leitura e escrita das colaboradoras da pesquisa. A geração de dados se deu em encontros quinzenais na residência das professoras, nos locais de trabalho, na sala de aula da universidade, em colóquios e congressos internacionais e nacionais. E a discussão apresentada neste trabalho dialoga com os Estudos dos Novos Letramentos e dos letramentos acadêmico-científicos (STRET, 1984); (KLEIMAN, 1995); (ASSIS, 2007); FISCHER (2007), (MARINHO 2010); (GUEDES, 2010). Neste estudo o leitor encontrará uma discussão sobre o conceito de letramentos e letramentos acadêmico-científicos articulados ao processo de formação continuada de professores. Por fim, aponta-se para uma ressignificação dos saberes científicos e pedagógicos das docentes, que podem contribuir para a formação inicial e continuada das professoras de Língua Portuguesa e uma coordenadora pedagógica. / ABSTRACT This study deals with the process of construction of academic-scientific literacy in the formation of four Portuguese Language teachers and one educational coordinator, being them four participants and the researcher and author of this thesis. It is an auto-ethnographic and collaborative research. The purpose of this study is to describe the process of construction of academic-scientific literacy in continuing education on the margins of the university and the interference of this constitution in personal, intellectual and professional development in order to contribute to the debate on this subject in the public universities of Bahia. It is also discussed the dialogue that the subjects of this research, school representatives, established with some universities, understanding that these two contexts have different knowledge, but one is not superior to the other. The development of this study provided an opportunity to participants to experience concrete situations of action-reflection-action hoping to promote changes in their action environments. The survey data encompasses the audiovisual records, approximately 250 hours, during the interactions between the participants in the study meetings. Several textual productions of academic genres (reviews, abstracts, academic papers and oral communication) and school texts (projects and didactic sequences), written reports of the reading and writing history of the subjects of the research, also make up this data. The generation of these occurred in fortnightly meetings in the teachers’ residence, in our work places, in the classroom of the university, in international and national colloquiums and congresses. In addition, there is a dialogue here with literacy studies and academic-scientific literacies, which conceive reading and textual production as social practices, which gave theoretical support to this work (STRET, 1984); (KLEIMAN, 1995); (ASSIS, 2007); (MARINHO 2010); (GUEDES, 2010). In this study the reader will find a discussion of the concepts of literacy and academic-scientific literacies articulated the process of continuing education of teachers. Finally, it is pointed to a resignification of the scientific and pedagogical knowledge of the teachers, which can contribute to the initial and continued formation of the Portuguese Language teachers and a educational coordinator.

This study aims at investigating what kind of teaching-learning process Brazilian students go through when they learn English with focus on New Literacies for a semester in 2010. The students are from two poor communities in Maceió, in the state of Alagoas. The methodological approach was based on action research (ANDRÉ, 2004) and the collecting data procedures were field notes, questionnaires, interviews recorded in audio and video. The theoretical underpinnings were based on Applied Linguistics assumptions and on some concepts such as, new literacies (NEW LONDON GROUP,1996;COPE & KALANTZIS,2008), critical pedagogy (KRAMSCH, 1993) and active responsive production (ZOZZOLI, 2006). The results reveal that using the three activities developed in the classroom within the New Literacies pedagogy made the students participate consciously and sometimes critically. Each activity aimed at working with a different design (NEW LONDON GROUP, 1996). The first activity was for the students to produce a presentation in which students should first analyze the context of some images (visual design) in order to choose appropriate linguistic elements (linguistic design); the second one was meant to use relationship websites in order to write a profile, the task also demanded students to choose adequate linguistic elements (linguistic design); the third one aimed at producing a slogan (linguistic design) through analyzing video images (visual design) that dealt with social topics (violence, sexual abuse and environmental preservation) in which students had to build up their arguments and write about them. The results also reveal that the teacher-researcher has undergone a self-reflection process. She is more aware of her teacher talking time in classroom and feels more confident when she conducts activities in classroom and when she has to take instant decisions. / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de alunos de duas comunidades de baixa renda da cidade de Maceió durante um semestre letivo. O semestre em questão teve como foco o ensino da língua inglesa com ênfase nos novos letramentos visando desencadear uma consciência crítica sobre os temas discutidos. A metodologia de pesquisa escolhida foi à pesquisa-ação (ANDRÉ, 2004), e os procedimentos utilizados para a coleta dos dados foram notas de campo, questionário, entrevista, gravações em áudio e vídeo. A fundamentação teórica se baseou nos pressupostos da Linguística Aplicada e nos conceitos dos novos letramentos (NEW LONDON GROUP,1996; COPE & KALANTZIS,2008), da pedagogia crítica (FREIRE, 2005; KRAMSCH, 1993) e da produção responsiva ativa (ZOZZOLI, 2006). Os resultados sinalizam que a condução das três atividades desenvolvidas com nuances dos novos letramentos promoveu a participação dos alunos com posicionamentos conscientes e alguns críticos. Cada atividade trabalhou com um tipo de design (NEW LONDON GROUP, 1996). A primeira objetivou a produção de uma apresentação na qual os participantes teriam, inicialmente, que analisar o contexto de algumas imagens (design visual) para depois escolher os elementos linguísticos apropriados (design linguístico); a segunda objetivou o uso de sítios de relacionamento para a produção de um perfil, a atividade envolvia também a escolha de elementos linguístico adequados (design linguístico); a terceira atividade tinha como objetivo a produção de um slogan (design linguístico) através das imagens de um vídeo (design visual), que trazia alguns temas sociais (violência, preservação ambiental, abuso sexual) nos quais os alunos tiveram que construir seus posicionamentos e escrever a respeito. Os resultados também indicam que a professora-pesquisadora passou por um intenso processo de auto-reflexão. Ela está mais consciente sobre o seu tempo de fala nas aulas e sente-se mais confiante na condução das atividades e nas tomadas de decisão.

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction / F. Todd Goodson / In the past, literacy was viewed solely as the basic, functional skills of reading and writing. However, with the New London Group’s (1996) proposal of multiliteracies and the more recent push for a plurality of literacies (NCTE, 2011), teachers have been urged to expand their definitions of literacy. This qualitative study explores how secondary-level social studies and science teachers perceive literacies and identifies their instructional literacies practices. Data were collected through a pre- and post-questionnaire, three focus group sessions, classroom observations, field notes, and artifacts. This study solicited nearly one hundred secondary social studies and science teachers from three Midwestern school districts. Eight educators (four social studies and four science) participated in the study that took place in the spring of 2015. Furthermore, a generous grant from a local chapter of Phi Delta Kappa partially funded this research. After applying initial and holistic codes to the data, nine themes emerged: conventional, progressive, hesitant/emerging, collaborate, calibrate, perform, practice, interdisciplinary, and intradisciplinary. The nine themes were further classified by how they appeared in the data: dispositional themes, behavioral themes, and bridge themes. Throughout the data analysis, contemporary genre theory guided the study (Devitt, 2004). Descriptive codes, derived from contemporary genre theory, further revealed that the situational, social, historical, and individual aspects of genre influence teachers’ pedagogical practices related to multiple literacies across disciplines. Therefore, the ways in which teachers perceived multiple literacies and implemented them into classroom instruction are multifaceted and vary depending on grade level, content area, and teaching location. However, teachers’ dispositions regarding literacy move beyond a traditional mindset of functional reading and writing as they engage in professional learning opportunities and collaborate within and across disciplines and grade levels. This study provides secondary educators insight into the prominence of multiple literacies present across content areas while also revealing the teaching methods and instructional strategies that foster multiple literacies.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 arroyo_rw_dr_sjrp.pdf: 4652563 bytes, checksum: ac511e55b543adadb6092331ddde7f1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-15 / Selon un cadre théorique et méthodologique qui met l'accent sur les concepts développés par Bakhtine et son cercle et sur les Nouvelles Études de Littéracie, l’objectif central de cette thèse est étudier le statut du « lien web » (souvent connu comme "connexion électronique" dans l'hypertextes sur internet) comme point d'hétérogénéité des pratiques de littéracies universitaires dans le contexte numérique. En rendant compte de la pluralité de littéracies qui composent la production et la circulation des textes dans le domaine universitaire, la recherhe a été consideré como l'hypothèse que la relation établie par le sujet avec la production de ses textes dans le contexte numérique est liée à façons de concevoir (sa propre) énonciation et d'intéragir avec des Outres (avec/dans les technologies) et non seulement à l'exploitation des outils numériques dans la lecture et dans la production de ces textes universitaires. Le matériel de la recherche a été formé de soixante-douze (72) textes produits dans le Facebook, un réseau social sur internet, par des étudiants inscrits dans un cours de baccalauréat en littérature d’une université publique au État de São Paulo connecté à un réseau social sur Internet à l'année de 2012. Les procédures sont fondés sur la Méthode Indiciaire, formulée par Ginzburg (1989), une méthode qui permet déveloper une analyse interprétative de base qualitative. Comme les principaux résultats, on détache, du point de vue des enseignants en formation initiale, une projection de que l'appropriation des ressources technologiques serait une condition pour améliorer la productivité des sujets par rapport aux pratiques d'écriture universitaire. On comprend cette projection como un effet de conflits entre, d’un côté, l’imaginaire créé par des étudiants sobre l’éducation et l’utilisation des technologies numériques de l’information e de communication, et, de l’autre côté, la façon avec laquelle ces étudiants intéragent en utilisant les outils numériques. / De uma perspectiva teórico-metodológica que privilegia conceitos de Bakhtin e seu Círculo e dos Novos Estudos do Letramento, esta tese tem como objetivo investigar o estatuto do link (popularmente conhecido como “ligação eletrônica” em hipertextos da internet) como ponto de heterogeneidade de práticas letradas acadêmicas em contexto digital. Considerando-se a pluralidade de letramentos que constituem a produção e a circulação de textos na esfera acadêmica, a hipótese de partida é a de que a relação que o sujeito estabelece com a produção de texto em contexto digital está vinculada a modos de conceber o (seu) enunciado e de interagir com o Outro (com as/nas tecnologias) e não apenas à instrumentalização de recursos digitais na leitura e na produção desses textos acadêmicos. O conjunto do material é formado por setenta e dois (72) textos produzidos no Facebook, uma rede social na internet por universitários, professores em formação inicial, regularmente matriculados num Curso de Licenciatura em Letras numa universidade pública do Estado de São Paulo, no ano de 2012. Os procedimentos de investigação que direcionam este estudo estão fundamentados no Paradigma Indiciário formulado por Ginzburg (1989), o qual permite análise qualitativo-interpretativa dos dados. Dentre os principais resultados encontrados, destaca-se a projeção, da perspectiva desses professores em formação inicial, de que a apropriação de recursos tecnológicos seria condição para melhor produtividade dos sujeitos em relação a práticas letradas acadêmicas. Essa projeção é entendida, nesta tese, como resultante do imaginário construído pelos universitários sobre educação e uso de tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação em práticas letradas acadêmicas e o modo pelo qual estes alunos interagem com tais práticas ao fazerem uso de recursos digitais. / From a theoretical-methodological perspective which privileges Baktin’s concepts and New Writing Skill Studies, this doctoral thesis has as objective to investigate the status of link (commonly known as ‘electronic connection’ in internet hypertexts) as a point of heterogeneity in academic literate practices, in the digital context. Given the plurality of writing skills that constitutes the production and circulation of scientific texts in the academic setting, the starting hypothesis of this study is that the relation that the subject establishes with the production of texts in the digital context is related to specific ways of conceiving (its own) enunciated and interacting with the Other (with/in the technologies), and not just the instrumentalization of digital recourses in the reading and production of these academic texts. The set of materials consist of seventy two (72) texts produced within Facebook, an online social network by undergraduate students of Linguistics enrolled in a public State University of São Paulo, on an online social network, in the year of 2012. The investigative procedures that guide this study are based on the Evidential Paradigm formulated by Ginzburg (1989), which allows the qualitative interpretative analysis of the data. Among the main results obtained, we highlight a projection from the perspective of these teachers in initial training that the appropriation of technological resources would be provided for better productivity of the subjects in relation to academic writing practices. Such projection is understood here as resultant of the imaginary constructed by undergraduate students about education and the use of digital technologies of information and communication in academic writing practices, and the mode by which these students interacts with these practices.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This report aims to present the action-research results, took place at the CEJBN/SE, enclosing the usage of the cellphone application designed to instantaneous messages exchange – WhatsApp – as a strategy to the students of the 9º grade of the elementary school to develop competences in order to the opinion genre article text producing practise. The research is based on Koch, Boff and Marinello (2009/2014) studies concerning the work with the textual genres, beginning from systematic daily actions sequence: Soares (2002) about literacies on Cyberculture and Rojo (2015) about multiliteracy. The methodology employed is proposed by Dolz and Schneuwly, recognized as Didactic Sequence. The justification for the fulfiment of this research is reasoned by the range of teaching actions amlplification needs which absorbs the disposable digital technologies, both as alongside the student literacy on the cyberculture scope and, mainly, as their competence on the written modality upgrading. The final product resulting the action-research is registred in a Pedagogical Notebook that aims to socialize the didactic actions experiences with other elementar school portuguese language teachers. / Este relatório tem por objetivo apresentar os resultados da pesquisa-ação realizada no CEJBN/SE, envolvendo o uso do aplicativo de celular para troca de mensagens instantâneas – WhatsApp – como estratégia para alunos do 9ª ano do ensino fundamental desenvolverem competências para a prática da produção de texto do gênero artigo de opinião. A pesquisa baseia-se nos estudos de Köch, Boff e Marinello (2009/2014) sobre o gênero textual artigo de opinião; Dolz e Schneuwly (2004), sobre o trabalho com os gêneros textuais a partir de uma sequência sistemática de ações didáticas; Soares (2002) sobre letramentos na Cibercultura e Rojo (2015), sobre multiletramentos. A metodologia empregada é a proposta por Dolz e Schneuwly, reconhecida como Sequência Didática. A justificativa para a realização da pesquisa se dá pela necessidade de se ampliar o rol de alternativas de ações de ensino que absorva as tecnologias digitais disponíveis, tanto a favor do letramento do aluno no âmbito da cibercultura quanto e, sobretudo, do aprimoramento de sua competência na modalidade escrita. O produto final da pesquisa-ação realizada está registrado em um Caderno Pedagógico que visa socializar a experiência das ações didáticas com outros docentes de língua portuguesa do ensino fundamental.