I divided this new type of composition, multi-type composition of a certain topic, into five categories, and the composition themes were designed in person by me; I also put them into practice in my teaching procedure in the junior high school composition class. After finishing collecting student works, I spent very long time classifying and commenting on them, and finally found that students had quite excellent performing in two respects, one is confirming the main ideas of the composition themes and how students chose their composition materials is the other. In this thesis I shall present the result of my study completely, including my designed composition themes, the teaching procedures of every theme, student works and given comments of those works.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-01-10T11:34:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Edir Aparecido Morato.pdf: 2715191 bytes, checksum: ed9b2c2ee379f84f855e62cfc6a87a41 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-10T11:34:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edir Aparecido Morato.pdf: 2715191 bytes, checksum: ed9b2c2ee379f84f855e62cfc6a87a41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-13 / “Nos esforsamos au macimu… (We’ve made a great effort… – written with grammatical errors in Portuguese) to learn”, affirms Henrique, student from the 9th year of Primary School, regular modality, of a public school in the city of São Paulo. It is in that school context this bibliographical and empiric research aims to analyze the massification of the school teaching and its possible effects in learners in this part of the primary school process. The massification of the school teachingis understood as the quantitative expansion of the school process (ENGUITA, 1989), in order to teach innumerous students with a few teachers. In this sense, the objective of this study is to identify the teaching procedures that characterize school positions to the students according to their conditions of knowledge appropriation (CHARLOT, 2000; 2013). The methodology adopted arose from the classes observations based on the research question: which teaching procedures does a teacher use considering each student’s learning process? At the end of the observations, I proceeded with questionnaires and discussion groups with teachers and students. The information obtained by means of those resources was organized in charts and tables for further analysis. This qualitative work did not dispense the quantitative data, as well as the analysis of the curricular proposal of São Paulo education network and the involved teachers’ lesson plans. The results indicate that the effects originating from the massification compromise the teaching of knowledge and the development of competences and abilities when those do not correspond to the learners’ singularities and therefore, to the basic needs of the learning process / “Nos esforsamos au macimu” para aprender, assim afirma o Henrique, aluno no 9º ano do ensino fundamental, modalidade regular, de uma escola pública do município de São Paulo, na qual esta pesquisa bibliográfica e empírica objetiva analisar a massificação do ensino escolar e seus possíveis efeitos em educandos nesta etapa da escolaridade básica. Entende-se por massificação deste ensino a expansão quantitativa da escolarização (ENGUITA, 1989), no intuito de ensinar inúmeros alunos com poucos professores. Nesse sentido o objeto desse estudo são os procedimentos de ensino, que caracterizam posições escolares aos alunos conforme suas condições de apropriação de conhecimentos (CHARLOT, 2000; 2013). A metodologia adotada partiu da observação de aulas com base na seguinte questão de pesquisa: quais procedimentos de ensino um professor utiliza em vista da aprendizagem de cada educando? Ao final dessas observações prossegui com questionários e grupos de discussão com professores e alunos. As informações obtidas por meio destes recursos foram organizadas em quadros e tabelas para posterior análise. O trabalho, de caráter qualitativo, não prescindiu de dados quantitativos, bem como da análise da proposta curricular da rede de ensino paulistana e do planejamento de aulas dos professores envolvidos. Os resultados da pesquisa indicam que os efeitos oriundos da massificação comprometem o ensino de conhecimentos e o desenvolvimento de competências e habilidades quando estes não correspondem às singularidades dos educandos e, por conseguinte, às suas necessidades básicas de aprendizagem

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of strategy training in small group work on the reading comprehension of academic texts in English by Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. The strategy-training used was the Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTF) which focused on the four reading comprehension strategies: predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarizing. The research study was an experimental one using a single group design. The participants were thirty-four first year students enrolled in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program at a tertiary institution in the northeastern part of Thailand. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. The pre-, post- and follow-up reading tests were employed for quantitative analysis. The students' performances were analyzed for statistically significant differences immediately at the end of the ten-week training and in the follow-up test eight weeks after the training. Qualitative data were collected from students' pre-, post- and follow-up questionnaires, checklists and journals, teacher's checklists and journal, and independent observer's checklists and field notes.