Föreliggande studie vill undersöka hur fyra verksamma lärare i svenska som andraspråk, enligt dem själva, förstår och undervisar literacy i ett multimodalt samhälle. Genom en kvalitativ metod har de fyra lärarna intervjuats enskilt och deras svar har sedan placerats i redan befintliga teman från en studie av Cross (2011) som, tillsammans med ett sociokulturellt perspektiv, utgör teoretiska utgångspunkter och analysverktyg för denna studie. Det analyserade resultatet visar bland annat att lärarna fokuserar mycket på sociala och kulturella praktiker vid literacyundervisning och att de inkluderar multimodaliteter i begreppet literacy men att det får olika mycket utrymme i undervisningen beroende på tillfrågad lärare.

This mixed-methods case study centered on an online professional development (PD) event targeting university-level teacher educators and higher education discipline-specific instructors. The topic of the online PD was disciplinary literacy and the promoted use of metacognitive modeling via think-aloud as an instructional strategy for secondary students in various discipline areas. The study aimed to understand how the use of the same instructional strategy by the PD facilitators affected participants in terms of changes to (a) their knowledge about and attitudes towards reading instruction in the disciplines (e.g., mathematics, social studies, science, the arts); (b) their beliefs regarding learner-centered/non learner-centered classrooms; (c) their general teaching philosophies; and (d) their self-efficacy to use and teach the strategy to others. Specifically, it looked for any relationships between these changes, their intention to apply the same instructional strategy in their own classes and/or teach their pre- and in-service teachers the strategy, and participant perceptions on the importance of the strategy to their learning. The online PD was accessible over a period of four weeks in the winter/spring of 2012. Ten participants from various institutions took part in this study by completing surveys, submitting metacognitive modeling samples pre- and post- PD, and participating in interviews. All participants experienced change during this PD event through the acquisition of new knowledge, while many showed resultant changes to their attitudes and beliefs. Changes in knowledge were most evident in the pre- and post- metacognitive modeling samples the participants provided, with increased scores indicating improvement in their ability to use the instructional strategy. Most evidence of other change is found throughout their interviews. Overall, the participants rated and ranked the metacognitive modeling example videos provided by the PD facilitators as nearly integral to their learning. The largest limitation of the study was the small number of participants. Discussion discerns the nature of teacher change, provides suggestions for future PD design/research, and asserts that the goal of PD, traditionally to result in changed teaching practices in the classroom, instead be to provide the knowledge and initial experience educators can use as a foundation to change in all areas. / text

In this dissertation, I use arts-based inquiry, performance ethnography, and spatial rhetorics to analyze the role of play and relational literacies within multimodal community performance focused on the exploration of queer youth sexuality and gender expression. I ground my study in an analysis of the effects of neoliberalism on sexuality research, noting the ways in which the erasure of cultural politics, in concert with the risk-resilience binary through which queer youth are often framed, forecloses queer youth futures. In my study, I argue that play--as a rich, complex critical thinking practice--offers a way to understand queer community performance as a moment of critique that reimagines everyday spaces outside of oppressive cultural logics. Throughout my analyses, I propose and illustrate the value of sensate engagement as an embodied, performative rhetoric and research practice that opens up an awareness of the transformative potential of everyday play in the con/texts of multimodal community performance. Specifically, I argue that an embodied, multisensory engagement with multimodal performance can make recognizable--but not singularly knowable--the value of play as a critical, everyday practice for performing provisional, queer/ed utopian spaces of youth community.

Upon entering tertiary education students have to undergo development with regard to the way in which information is gathered, processed and produced because the academic context (secondary environment) is different to the primary context in so many ways. Students have to acquire the identity or discourse of the secondary environment, in other words they must learn how to behave, interact, believe, speak, read and write in an academic way (Gee, 1996:viii). When students have acquired the identity of the secondary environment they are well on their way to a successful academic career. The choice has been made to focus on one component of identity, namely reading, and specifically academic reading. The latter concept is defined as the process to accept, reject and synthesize incoming information from various sources – the guiding principle in this process is the aim of theorizing. It was found that comprehension of the semantics and function of conjunction markers played an important role in the academic reading process. And that the cloze test is a good method to teach comprehension of conjunction markers. The aim of the current study is to establish whether the use of cloze tests, focused on conjunction markers, will improve academic reading comprehension, within the framework of academic literacy. The empirical research was conducted amongst first year students at the North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus. Participants were selected using the following criteria: they had AGLA111 and they were first year students during 2008-2010. As basis for this research a pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used. The nature of this research is quantitative and a null-hypothesis (H0) was formulated: cloze tests as a teaching method will not improve reading comprehension. Six sets of data were used for this investigation: the January 2008 results, the June 2008 results, the January 2009 results, the June 2009 results, the January 2010 results and the June 2010 results. These sets of data were compared using independent t-tests to establish whether the means were statistically significant. The sets of data were compared looking at - the TAG as a whole and - only the questions that involved conjunction markers. The test in January is written before students commence with their studies and the test in June is written after they have received intervention by way of the academic literacy module. The only intervention in 2008 was the standard academic literacy module – this group serves as the control group. During 2009, besides the standard intervention, students underwent five weeks of cloze tests with conjunction markers as focus – this was the pilot study. The experimental group which had standard intervention as well as nine weeks of cloze tests, was the group of 2010. The results of the experiment show that the effect size was big with regard to the results of the TAG as a whole and medium with regards to the questions that involve conjunction markers. The results were statistically significant in both cases and the mean of the post tests were higher in each event. The finding is that cloze test training focussed on conjunction markers is a good method for improving academic reading comprehension, but more research is still necessary. / MA (Afrikaans en Nederlands), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2014

Esta dissertação busca contribuir para o ensino da língua materna promovendo uma análise linguístico - discursiva organizada em níveis das produções que compõem o corpus investigado. Considerando um universo de 375 produções discentes, propõe-se uma análise de 37 produções textuais de alunos dos Colégios Militares do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre e Campo Grande, a fim de, com base no aporte teórico que estabelece a interseção da concepção tridimensional do discurso de Fairclough e as regularidades discursivas de Foucault, sejam propostos níveis de letramento da escrita de alunos do 6 ano do Ensino Fundamental. A proposta metodológica deste estudo baseia-se em duas categorias de análise, a saber: uma categoria discursiva e outra gramatical. A primeira, subdividida em intratexto e intertexto, aponta para a construção de sentido e para o posicionamento do aluno como sujeito. A segunda, subdividida em coesão referencial e coesão sequencial, indica a importância dos elementos gramaticais na sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento do texto. Em cada uma dessas categorias foram levantadas regularidades discursivas que, interseccionadas, retratam os diferentes níveis de proficiência leitora e escritora presentes num mesmo grupo, resultantes dos diferentes níveis de letramento, além de indicar para o professor os aspectos linguísticos que precisam ser desenvolvidos numa sala de aula / The objective presented herein was to contribute to the teaching of Portuguese as mother tongue by means of a linguistic-discursive analysis, organized in levels, of the written productions which compose the investigated corpus. Based on the theoretical support which establishes the intersection between Faircloughs three-dimensional conception of discourse and Foucaults discursive regularities, we carry on the analysis of 37 out of a group of 375 written productions of students of the first year of Middle School from the Military Schools of Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre and Campo Grande, in order to outline the literacy levels of those students in writing. The methodological approach considered in this study is based in two categories of analysis: a discursive and a grammatical one. The first, subdivided in intra-text and intertext, points to the building of meaning and to the way the student understands her/himself as the subject of her/his discourse. The second, subdivided in referential cohesion and sequential cohesion, signals out the importance of the grammatical elements in the sustainability and development of the text. In each one of those categories it was possible to observe discursive regularities, regularities which, in an intersection, portray different levels of the reading and writing proficiency presented in the same group, as a result of different literacy levels, besides indicating to the teacher the linguistic aspects which need to be developed in a classroom

abstract: There are many educational issues connected to the exponential growth of the Latina/o population in the U.S. One such issue is Latina/os’ educational outcomes in the area of literacy. Despite the increased attention to subpopulations of students (e.g., English language learners, students with disabilities) there is little attention given to students that do not fit neatly into one subcategory, which positions Latina/o language minorities (LMs) with learning disabilities (LDs) in a liminal space where their educational services are fragmented into either being a student with LD or a LM student. Unfortunately, labels that are meant to afford students resources often result in fragmenting students’ educational experiences. This becomes evident when attempting to locate research on students who have ethnic, linguistic, and ability differences. Rarely are their educational needs as Latina/o LMs with LD met fluidly. Understanding the intersections of ethnicity, language, and ability differences in situated literacy practice is imperative to creating the deep, nuanced understanding of how Latina/o LMs with LD might become proficient in the use of critical twenty-first century tools such as new literacies. In this study I used cultural historical activity theory in combination with New Literacy Studies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009; Gee, 1996) and intersectionality (McCall, 2014) to examine how Latina/o LMs with LD’s participated in literacies across in- and out-of-school contexts with the following research questions: In what ways does participation in literacy change for Latina/o LMs with LD as they move between in- and out-of-school? What situated identities do LMs with LD enact and resist while participating in literacy across in- and out-of-school contexts? / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Special Education 2015

abstract: For the past few decades, feminist researchers have worked tirelessly to recover the history of American women’s sewing – both the artifacts made and the processes, practices, and identities linked to the objects produced. With the transition to the digital age, women are still sewing, but they are inventing, making, and distributing sewn objects using platforms and pathways online to share knowledge, showcase their handicrafts, and sell their wares. This dissertation examines contemporary sewing and asks how digital practices are extending and transforming the history of women’s sewing in America. I place my findings against the backdrop of women’s history by recounting how and why women sewed in previous eras. This dissertation demonstrates how past sewing practices are being repeated, remixed, and reimagined as women meet to sew, socialize, and collaborate on the web. The overall approach to this project is ethnographic in nature, in that I collected data by participating alongside my female subjects in the online settings they frequent to read about, write about, and discuss sewing, including blogs, email, and various social media sites. From these interactions, I provide case studies that illuminate my findings on how women share sewing knowledge and products in digital spaces. Specifically, I look at how women are using digital tools to learn and teach sewing, to sew for activist purposes, and to pursue entrepreneurship. My findings show that sewing continues to be a highly social activity for women, although collaboration and socializing often happen from geographically distanced locations and are enabled by online communication. Seamstresses wanting to provide sewing instruction are able to archive their knowledge electronically and disperse it widely, and those learning to sew can access this knowledge by navigating paths through a plethora of digital resources. Activists are able to recruit more widely when seeking participants for their causes and can send handmade goods to people in need around the globe. Although gender biases continue to plague working women, the internet provides new opportunities for female entrepreneurship and allows women to profit from their sewing skills. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2016

abstract: This dissertation discusses how Twitter may function not only as a tool for planning public protest, but also as a discursive site, albeit a virtual one, for staging protest itself. Much debate exists on the value and extent that Twitter (and other social media or social networking sites) can contribute to successful activism for social justice. Previously, scholars' assessments of online activism have tended to turn on a simple binary: either the activity enjoyed complete success for a social movement (for instance, during the Arab Spring an overthrow of a regime) or else the campaign was designated as a failure. In my dissertation, I examine a Twitter public-relations campaign organized by the New York Police Department using the hashtag #MyNYPD. The campaign asked citizens to tweet pictures of themselves with police officers, and the public did, just not in the way the police department envisioned. Instead of positive photos with the police, the public organized online to share pictures of police brutality and harassment. I collected six months of tweets using #MyNYPD, and then analyzed protestors' rhetorical work through three lenses: rhetorical analysis, analysis of literacy practices, and social network analysis. These analyses show, first, the complex rhetorical work required to appropriate the police department's public-service campaign for purposes that subverted its original intent; second, the wide range of literacy practices required to mobilize and to sustain public attention on data exposing police abuse; and third, the networked activity constituting the protest online. Together, these analyses show the important work achieved within this social justice campaign beyond the binary definition of successful activism. This project shows that by increasing our analytical repertoires for studying digital rhetoric and writing, scholars can more accurately acknowledge what it takes for participants to share experiential knowledge, to construct new knowledge, and to mobilize connections when engaging online in public protest. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2016

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-30T21:32:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Elizabeth Conceição de Almeida Alves.pdf: 4321932 bytes, checksum: a18953400ed51ee31b2d46a77655795d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-02T17:50:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Elizabeth Conceição de Almeida Alves.pdf: 4321932 bytes, checksum: a18953400ed51ee31b2d46a77655795d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-02T17:50:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Elizabeth Conceição de Almeida Alves.pdf: 4321932 bytes, checksum: a18953400ed51ee31b2d46a77655795d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-22 / Nós vivemos, atualmente, em um mundo virtualizado em que os meios de comunicação e as mídias digitais têm feito parte da vivência de jovens e adolescentes. Esses usuários têm utilizado a internet para jogar, participar de bate-papo em chatse para criar histórias. Considerando esse cenário, este trabalho tem como finalidade investigar como adolescentes constituem a escrita no ambiente digital participando de comunidades on-linecomo o Fanfiction. A pesquisa obteve suporte teórico nos estudos de letramento (STREET, 1984, COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000, LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2005, MENEZES DE SOUSA; MONTE MÓR, 2006, SOARES, 2006, TAKAKI, 2012), novos letramentos (LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2007, LOPES, 2010), e multiletramentos (ROJO, 2012, 2013). Sobre o conceito de cultura de participação (CHARTIER, 2009; JENKINS, 2009; SANTAELLA, 2007). No que tange àfanfiction (JENKINS, 2009; VARGAS, 2005).Estas questões de pesquisa que conduziram este trabalho: 1) Que sentidos os adolescentes dão em relação à escrita no contexto digital? 2) De que forma se desenrola o processo de escrever na fanfiction? A abordagem interpretativista foi a metodologia de pesquisa adotada com análise de diálogos gerados por meio de entrevistas com as participantes (BORTONI-RICARDO, 2009, FLICK, 2009). A partir dos temas recorrentes e categorias analisadas, os resultados podem sinalizar que o processo de escrita no ambiente digital se constitui de forma dinâmica, colaborativa permeada por valores afetivos e mediado pela tela. / We live currently in a virtualized world where media and digital media have been part of the experience of young people and adolescents. These users have used the internet to play games, participate in chat chats and to create stories. Considering this scenario, this paper aims to investigate how adolescents are writing in the digital environment by participating in on-line communities, such as Fanfiction. Researches are based in theoretical studies of literacy (STREET, 1984, COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000, LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2005, MENEZES DE SOUSA; MONTE MÓR, 2006, SOARES, 2006, TAKAKI, 2012), new literacies (LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2007, LOPES, 2010), and multiliteracies (ROJO, 2012, 2013). On the concept of participatory culture(CHARTIER, 2009; JENKINS, 2009; SANTAELLA, 2007). Regarding the fanfiction (JENKINS, 2009; VARGAS, 2005). This research questions that drove this study: 1) What meanings do teens give in relation to the writing in digital context? 2) How unfolds in the process of writing fanfiction? The interpretive approach was adopted research methodology with analysis of dialogues generated through interviews with the participants (BORTONI-RICARDO, 2009, FLICK, 2009). From the recurring themes and categories analyzed, the results could signal that the process of writing in the digital environment is composed of, collaborative dynamically permeated by affective and mediated screen values.

Esta dissertação busca contribuir para o ensino da língua materna promovendo uma análise linguístico - discursiva organizada em níveis das produções que compõem o corpus investigado. Considerando um universo de 375 produções discentes, propõe-se uma análise de 37 produções textuais de alunos dos Colégios Militares do Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre e Campo Grande, a fim de, com base no aporte teórico que estabelece a interseção da concepção tridimensional do discurso de Fairclough e as regularidades discursivas de Foucault, sejam propostos níveis de letramento da escrita de alunos do 6 ano do Ensino Fundamental. A proposta metodológica deste estudo baseia-se em duas categorias de análise, a saber: uma categoria discursiva e outra gramatical. A primeira, subdividida em intratexto e intertexto, aponta para a construção de sentido e para o posicionamento do aluno como sujeito. A segunda, subdividida em coesão referencial e coesão sequencial, indica a importância dos elementos gramaticais na sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento do texto. Em cada uma dessas categorias foram levantadas regularidades discursivas que, interseccionadas, retratam os diferentes níveis de proficiência leitora e escritora presentes num mesmo grupo, resultantes dos diferentes níveis de letramento, além de indicar para o professor os aspectos linguísticos que precisam ser desenvolvidos numa sala de aula / The objective presented herein was to contribute to the teaching of Portuguese as mother tongue by means of a linguistic-discursive analysis, organized in levels, of the written productions which compose the investigated corpus. Based on the theoretical support which establishes the intersection between Faircloughs three-dimensional conception of discourse and Foucaults discursive regularities, we carry on the analysis of 37 out of a group of 375 written productions of students of the first year of Middle School from the Military Schools of Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre and Campo Grande, in order to outline the literacy levels of those students in writing. The methodological approach considered in this study is based in two categories of analysis: a discursive and a grammatical one. The first, subdivided in intra-text and intertext, points to the building of meaning and to the way the student understands her/himself as the subject of her/his discourse. The second, subdivided in referential cohesion and sequential cohesion, signals out the importance of the grammatical elements in the sustainability and development of the text. In each one of those categories it was possible to observe discursive regularities, regularities which, in an intersection, portray different levels of the reading and writing proficiency presented in the same group, as a result of different literacy levels, besides indicating to the teacher the linguistic aspects which need to be developed in a classroom