An evaluation of teaching procedures and curricula of the primary grades of two local elementary schools according to criteria formulated from accepted educational psychology and democratic philosophy of educational leaders constitutes the problem at hand.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar os documentos oficiais da educação de Timor- Leste para verificar as semelhanças e diferenças de tratamento entre as Línguas Portuguesa e Tétum no contexto pós-independência, na condição de línguas oficiais de Timor-Leste. O corpus da pesquisa foi constituído pelo Currículo do Ensino Básico, pelo Guia dos Professores e pelos Programas de Ensino desde ensino básico até o ensino superior. Identificamos que entre as duas línguas o Português recebe prioridade em relação ao Tétum nos documentos oficiais como os programas de ensino, nos quais encontramos um espaço de grande diferença nas cargas horárias entre os dois idiomas. O Tétum, apesar de língua nacional e língua oficial, está tendo diminuída a sua carga horária. Essa diminuição nos traz a preocupação de que no futuro a Língua Tétum possa perder mais espaço se não receber mais atenção. Parte importante das concepções teóricas que oferecem subsídios para este trabalho são oriundas da Análise do Discurso da qual trabalhamos a ideia de processo de produção de um discurso, envolvendo as condições sócio-históricas e a ideia de espaços em que os discursos são produzidos. Assim, implementar a língua Tétum como língua oficial no ensino em Timor-Leste é um desafio tendo em vista que o Português está tendo mais prioridade nas escolas do que o Tétum, inclusive por falta de materiais didáticos e formação de professores em Tétum. Esses são alguns desafios que devem ser vencidos para uma contínua aposta no ensino e na prática da língua Tétum no país. Para tanto, faz-se necessário criar condições para assegurar uma formação inicial e contínua de todos os professores de língua Tétum, seja no nível básico, seja no nível superior de ensino. A língua Tétum deve ser a grande prioridade, pois os professores timorenses devem ser proficientes na língua co-oficial do país, tanto na oralidade quanto na escrita e competentes em metodologia, sobretudo em termos de estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem do Tétum, sendo eles os responsáveis em aprender e ensinar a língua Tétum, a 2ª língua materna e língua oficial dos timorenses. Dessa forma, pode-se garantir que o ensino de Tétum contribua para assegurar a afirmação da identidade e das expressões culturais do país. Defendemos que, para que o Tétum seja desenvolvido, é preciso que os professores tenham formação específica desta língua na Universidade, para professores desta língua, pois usar a língua mais familiarizada pelo aluno certamente propiciará uma interação mais eficaz. Acreditamos que o resultado de nossa reflexão esteja na indicação de um caminho para o diálogo entre a Universidade e a escola básica e entre os professores e os alunos em sua própria língua. / The objective of this research is to identify the documents of the education of East Timor in order to verify the similarities and the differences on treatment between Portuguese and Tétum languages, in the post - independence, to be provided as official languages of East Timor. The corpus was composed by the Curriculum of Basic Education, the Guidelines of the Teachers and the Teaching Programs from Elementary school up to higher education. We have identified that between both idioms the Portuguese has more priority rather than Tétum in the official documents, in the Teaching Programs we found the great difference in the time table between the Portuguese and Tétum language. That difference bring us an inquietude that for the future it will have more space and if does not have any attention. The important part of the theory concept to support this work, using the perspective of Analysis and Discourse, where we take the idea of the process of speech which involve the condition of Sociohistories, the space where the discourse are working. The implementation of Tétum as official language in education of East Timor is a challenge that the Portuguese has a priority in the schools rather than Tétum. Probably, lack of teaching materials and teachers formation on Tétum language those are the challenges that must be overcome to continue investing in school and practice the Tétum language. It is necessary to create conditions for continuing the formation of all the teachers in Tétum language. From the basic level, until the higher education. The Tétum language should be a high priority because the timorese teachers should be proficiently in the co-official language in their country as in writing or in speaking they should be competent in the methodology, especially in terms of the teaching and strategy in learning Tétum language. The teachers are the responsible for learning and teaching Tétum as the second language as a mother tongue and official language of timorese. We can ensure that, the teaching of Tétum contributed for the affirmation of the identity and the Cultural expression of the country. We defend that, Tétum language will be developed it should has a specific formation in the University for the teachers that use the language which more familiarize by the students, certainly will provide effective interaction. We ensure that the result of our reflection be an indication the way for dialogue between the university and the teachers of primary school and among the students and the teachers will speak in their own language.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar os documentos oficiais da educação de Timor- Leste para verificar as semelhanças e diferenças de tratamento entre as Línguas Portuguesa e Tétum no contexto pós-independência, na condição de línguas oficiais de Timor-Leste. O corpus da pesquisa foi constituído pelo Currículo do Ensino Básico, pelo Guia dos Professores e pelos Programas de Ensino desde ensino básico até o ensino superior. Identificamos que entre as duas línguas o Português recebe prioridade em relação ao Tétum nos documentos oficiais como os programas de ensino, nos quais encontramos um espaço de grande diferença nas cargas horárias entre os dois idiomas. O Tétum, apesar de língua nacional e língua oficial, está tendo diminuída a sua carga horária. Essa diminuição nos traz a preocupação de que no futuro a Língua Tétum possa perder mais espaço se não receber mais atenção. Parte importante das concepções teóricas que oferecem subsídios para este trabalho são oriundas da Análise do Discurso da qual trabalhamos a ideia de processo de produção de um discurso, envolvendo as condições sócio-históricas e a ideia de espaços em que os discursos são produzidos. Assim, implementar a língua Tétum como língua oficial no ensino em Timor-Leste é um desafio tendo em vista que o Português está tendo mais prioridade nas escolas do que o Tétum, inclusive por falta de materiais didáticos e formação de professores em Tétum. Esses são alguns desafios que devem ser vencidos para uma contínua aposta no ensino e na prática da língua Tétum no país. Para tanto, faz-se necessário criar condições para assegurar uma formação inicial e contínua de todos os professores de língua Tétum, seja no nível básico, seja no nível superior de ensino. A língua Tétum deve ser a grande prioridade, pois os professores timorenses devem ser proficientes na língua co-oficial do país, tanto na oralidade quanto na escrita e competentes em metodologia, sobretudo em termos de estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem do Tétum, sendo eles os responsáveis em aprender e ensinar a língua Tétum, a 2ª língua materna e língua oficial dos timorenses. Dessa forma, pode-se garantir que o ensino de Tétum contribua para assegurar a afirmação da identidade e das expressões culturais do país. Defendemos que, para que o Tétum seja desenvolvido, é preciso que os professores tenham formação específica desta língua na Universidade, para professores desta língua, pois usar a língua mais familiarizada pelo aluno certamente propiciará uma interação mais eficaz. Acreditamos que o resultado de nossa reflexão esteja na indicação de um caminho para o diálogo entre a Universidade e a escola básica e entre os professores e os alunos em sua própria língua. / The objective of this research is to identify the documents of the education of East Timor in order to verify the similarities and the differences on treatment between Portuguese and Tétum languages, in the post - independence, to be provided as official languages of East Timor. The corpus was composed by the Curriculum of Basic Education, the Guidelines of the Teachers and the Teaching Programs from Elementary school up to higher education. We have identified that between both idioms the Portuguese has more priority rather than Tétum in the official documents, in the Teaching Programs we found the great difference in the time table between the Portuguese and Tétum language. That difference bring us an inquietude that for the future it will have more space and if does not have any attention. The important part of the theory concept to support this work, using the perspective of Analysis and Discourse, where we take the idea of the process of speech which involve the condition of Sociohistories, the space where the discourse are working. The implementation of Tétum as official language in education of East Timor is a challenge that the Portuguese has a priority in the schools rather than Tétum. Probably, lack of teaching materials and teachers formation on Tétum language those are the challenges that must be overcome to continue investing in school and practice the Tétum language. It is necessary to create conditions for continuing the formation of all the teachers in Tétum language. From the basic level, until the higher education. The Tétum language should be a high priority because the timorese teachers should be proficiently in the co-official language in their country as in writing or in speaking they should be competent in the methodology, especially in terms of the teaching and strategy in learning Tétum language. The teachers are the responsible for learning and teaching Tétum as the second language as a mother tongue and official language of timorese. We can ensure that, the teaching of Tétum contributed for the affirmation of the identity and the Cultural expression of the country. We defend that, Tétum language will be developed it should has a specific formation in the University for the teachers that use the language which more familiarize by the students, certainly will provide effective interaction. We ensure that the result of our reflection be an indication the way for dialogue between the university and the teachers of primary school and among the students and the teachers will speak in their own language.

Thesis title: A description of significant differences in technical preparation of water slalom and canoe sprint in K1 category. Thesis objective: The objective of the thesis is to determine the main features typical of technical preparation of kayakers in Czech canoeing clubs and to describe possible differences in the preparation of sprint kayakers and water slalom kayakers. Methods of data processing: The work is based on mixed research. The racers and coaches were presented with a questionnaire concerning technical preparation. Collected output was analyzed using the methods of quantitative research and of analytical induction. Results: Several significant differences were detected between the technical preparation of sprint kayakers and water slalom racers. To develop basic kayaking strokes, water slalom racers in mostly younger age categories use other water sports, especially wild water, more frequently. In preparatory exercises sprint racers limit themselves to stroke sequencing. Water slalom racers use a wider range of preparatory exercises to develop basic kayaking stroke. In order to gain feedback, water slalom racers use videorecording analysis several times a month and that not only during technical preparation period. In sprint canoeing the videorecording analysis is used...

Orientador: Ana Cláudia Moreira Almeida-Verdu / Resumo: A deficiência auditiva sensorioneural pré-lingual pode comprometer o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral. O implante coclear (IC) é um dispositivo auditivo que permite a essa população a detecção de sons na frequência da fala humana. A detecção de sons pode não ser suficiente para o desenvolvimento da linguagem e requer procedimentos de ensino para que se promova a aprendizagem do uso do dispositivo e o desenvolvimento das habilidades auditivas e expressivas. Pesquisas em interface entre Fonoaudiologia e Análise do Comportamento mostraram que o ensino baseado em equivalência (Equivalence-Based Instruction, EBI) envolvendo a rede de leitura pode aumentar a precisão da fala de crianças com deficiência auditiva pré-lingual que usam IC, de palavras às sentenças. Ainda, a produtividade verbal tem sido demostrada nos estudos prévios por meio da combinação do EBI que inclui o constructed response matching to sample (CRMTS) e ensino por matrizes, o que pode aumentar o controle por unidades menores e o potencial recombinativo. Nessa direção, o presente estudo avaliou os efeitos de dois procedimentos de ensino, baseado em seleção (MTS) e em construção de respostas (CRMTS), sobre a aprendizagem ou fortalecimento das relações condicionais entre sentenças ditadas e impressas, em crianças com IC; ainda, visou verificar se relações derivadas e consistentes com as relações de equivalência são observadas, e avaliar se esse EBI poderia promover o aumento da precisão da fala em tarefas de nomeaçã... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Pre-lingual sensorineural hearing loss can compromise the development of oral language. The cochlear implant (CI) is an auditory device that allows this population to detect sounds in the frequency of human speech. Sound detection may not be sufficient for language development and require teaching procedures to promote learning how to use the device and develop auditory and expressive skills. Research on the interface between Speech-Language Pathology and behavior analysis has shown that Equivalence-Based Instruction (EBI) involving the reading network can increase the speech accuracy of children with pre-lingual hearing loss who use CI, from words to sentences. Still, verbal productivity has been demonstrated in previous studies through the combination of EBI that includes constructed response matching to sample (CMRTS) and training by matrices, which can increase control by smaller units and the recombinative potential. In this sense, the present study evaluated the effects of two teaching procedures, based on selection (MTS) and the constructed response (CRMTS), on learning or strengthining the conditional relations between dictated and printed sentences, in children with CI, still, it aimed to verify if derived and consistent relations with the equivalence relations are observed, and to evaluate if this EBI could promote the increase of speech accuracy in tasks of naming action figures and recombinative performances. Two children participated, with sensorineural hearing l... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The overall aim of the present study is to investigate how teachers deal with linguistic and cultural otherness in the French foreign language classroom at upper secondary school level in Sweden. The foreign language classroom is seen as a cultural meeting place where images of otherness are natural elements. In this respect, otherness should be regarded as one cultural aspect among others implying human as well as language phenomena. Analyzing the way in which the teachers in the study mediate this otherness to their students is expected to contribute to the pedagogical debate on intercultural understanding in language teaching and learning.   The study is based on empirical data consisting of video recorded observations in three different classrooms. One class (class A) is treated as primary data where two activities are especially focused, namely working with texts and working with grammar. The verbal interaction from these activities has been transcribed and analyzed qualitatively.   The first step of analysis concerns the learning aims which are transmitted to the students in the teacher’s introduction to the two activities. The second step deals with the teacher’s procedures to involve the students in the construction of knowledge which focuses on linguistic and cultural otherness.   Finally, a comparative perspective is adopted. On the one hand, the two different activities are compared with each other, while on the other hand, the findings from class A are compared with class B and C. From a dialogical point of view, the way in which the classroom setting and the teachers’ acting can favour intercultural understanding is discussed.   The results of the analyses highlight the fact that teachers seem to pay more attention to linguistic otherness than to cultural otherness. Furthermore, the study shows that the foreign language classroom has a dialogical potential when it comes to human relations and discourse. More attention could be paid to these aspects of teaching in order to pave the way for better intercultural understanding. The teachers in the present study seem to favour dialogical relationships in the classroom and neglect discursive issues in the situation. Our conclusion is that the way in which teachers deal with otherness is tradition-bound. Texts, for instance, even those with an obvious intercultural content, are treated as pre-texts for studying linguistic phenomena. Cultural phenomena, when dealt with, are limited to a product paradigm and are transmitted without reflection and with no apparent awareness of any intercultural understanding.

The overall aim of the present study is to investigate how teachers deal with linguistic and cultural otherness in the French foreign language classroom at upper secondary school level in Sweden. The foreign language classroom is seen as a cultural meeting place where images of otherness are natural elements. In this respect, otherness should be regarded as one cultural aspect among others implying human as well as language phenomena. Analyzing the way in which the teachers in the study mediate this otherness to their students is expected to contribute to the pedagogical debate on intercultural understanding in language teaching and learning.   The study is based on empirical data consisting of video recorded observations in three different classrooms. One class (class A) is treated as primary data where two activities are especially focused, namely working with texts and working with grammar. The verbal interaction from these activities has been transcribed and analyzed qualitatively. The first step of analysis concerns the learning aims which are transmitted to the students in the teacher’s introduction to the two activities. The second step deals with the teacher’s procedures to involve the students in the construction of knowledge which focuses on linguistic and cultural otherness. Finally, a comparative perspective is adopted. On the one hand, the two different activities are compared with each other, while on the other hand, the findings from class A are compared with class B and C. From a dialogical point of view, the way in which the classroom setting and the teachers’ acting can favour intercultural understanding is discussed. The results of the analyses highlight the fact that teachers seem to pay more attention to linguistic otherness than to cultural otherness. Furthermore, the study shows that the foreign language classroom has a dialogical potential when it comes to human relations and discourse. More attention could be paid to these aspects of teaching in order to pave the way for better intercultural understanding. The teachers in the present study seem to favour dialogical relationships in the classroom and neglect discursive issues in the situation. Our conclusion is that the way in which teachers deal with otherness is tradition-bound. Texts, for instance, even those with an obvious intercultural content, are treated as pre-texts for studying linguistic phenomena. Cultural phenomena, when dealt with, are limited to a product paradigm and are transmitted without reflection and with no apparent awareness of any intercultural understanding.

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Work proposals which discuss scholar questions along with teachers appear in a collaborative format, in which this professional would take an active role in the knowledge construction and there would be knowledge exchange among those involved. The Behavior Analysis provides conditions to the discussions about the process of teaching and learning including the description of principles and procedures which contributed for effective teaching, and, also, for descriptive function evaluation which can be understood as an educational resource that has been teaching the teachers, and, in which, an individual establishes functions relations between events from behavior identification to be analyzed and antecedent conditions and subsequent to this behavior. From a collaborative work format, the aims of this research were to describe teaching situations carried out by kindergarten teacher for teaching pre-arithmetic skills and also enable to the participant to describe functional relationships between what she wanted to teach, their teaching practices, and performance of their students as a result of its practices. In addition, to describe the present collaborative work, as well as, to create conditions for the teacher to describe principles and procedures for Behavior Analysis, which could contribute to effective teaching, were also aims of this study. The present work has conducted at the school where the teacher works. It was realized interviews to research teaching practices (in the context of teaching pre-arithmetic skills) for teaching pre-arithmetic skills; a discussion between researcher and participant on tasks present in an educational program of pre-arithmetical skills and teacher interaction with the mentioned program; recording and classroom observations; discussions for planning and analysis classes. It was described seven situations of teaching which will be used for the teaching pre-arithmetic skills from the data. However, only two teaching situations were also planned, executed and analyzed, which were related to the ordering skills of ensemble and notion of the pertinence of the objects to sets. The descriptive functional assessment seems to be a tool with potential to collaborative works with teachers. However, the procedure used did not allow that the participant functionally relates all the aspects discussed in the planning of the analyzed classes. The teacher showed indicative behaviors that appropriated elements brought by the researcher, in the other words, viii the participant used in some moments of the planning, execution and analysis of class principles and procedures described by Behavior Analysis focused on teaching (for example, she said that should have done the evaluation of the previous repertoire of students to realize a teaching situation). In addition, in these situations, the participant established some punctual dependence relations between theirs aims, teaching practices and performance measures for students on these practices. Because it was a collaborative work, the exchange knowledge between researcher and participant was something desired, and about this, the participant contributed describing practices for the pre-arithmetical skills teaching, as well as thinking of teaching opportunities for those who were not part of their routine. Participant speeches indicated that some elements of the collaborative work were not present throughout the interaction, such as the co-responsibility for the work. Changes in the present procedure were suggested to amend this characteristic of the interaction. / O trabalho do professor tem sido alvo de diversas pesquisas e intervenções, sendo que em alguns casos este profissional desenvolve um papel pouco ativo. Surgem propostas de trabalhos que discutem questões escolares junto com os professores num formato colaborativo, nas quais esse profissional assumiria um papel ativo na construção do conhecimento e haveria troca de saberes entre os envolvidos. A Análise do Comportamento traz contribuições para as discussões sobre o processo de ensino-aprendizagem, entre elas a descrição de princípios e procedimentos que contribuiriam para um ensino efetivo e também a avaliação funcional descritiva, que pode ser entendida como um recurso pedagógico que tem sido ensinado a professores e na qual um indivíduo estabelece relações funcionais entre eventos a partir da identificação do comportamento que se pretende analisar e das situações antecedente e subsequente a esse comportamento. Propondo um trabalho em formato colaborativo, o objetivo dessa pesquisa foi descrever situações de ensino realizadas por uma professora da educação infantil para o ensino de habilidades pré-aritméticas e também possibilitar que a participante descrevesse relações funcionais entre o que desejava ensinar, suas práticas pedagógicas e o desempenho dos seus alunos como consequência de suas práticas. Descrever o trabalho colaborativo aqui realizado, bem como criar condições para que a professora descrevesse princípios e procedimentos descritos pela Análise do Comportamento e que poderiam contribuir para um ensino efetivo também eram objetivos desse estudo. Este foi conduzido na escola em que a professora participante trabalhava e para tal foram realizadas entrevistas para investigação de práticas docentes (no contexto de ensino de habilidades pré-aritméticas); discussão entre pesquisadora e participante sobre tarefas presentes em um programa de ensino de habilidades pré-aritméticas e interação da professora com o referido programa; gravação e observação de aulas; discussões para planejamento e análise de aulas. Foram descritas sete situações de ensino que podem ser usadas para o ensino de habilidades pré-aritméticas, contudo apenas duas também foram planejadas, executadas e analisadas e eram relativas as habilidades ordenação de conjunto e noção de pertinência de objetos a conjuntos. A avaliação funcional descritiva parece ser uma ferramenta com potencial para trabalhos colaborativos com professores, contudo, o procedimento utilizado não possibilitou que a participante relacionasse funcionalmente todos os aspectos discutidos no planejamento e análise de aulas. A professora apresentou comportamentos indicativos de que se apropriou de elementos trazidos pela pesquisadora, ou vi seja, diante das condições presentes no trabalho conjunto a participante usou em alguns momentos do planejamento, execução e análise da aula princípios e procedimentos descritos pela Análise do Comportamento voltados para o ensino (por exemplo, afirmou que deveria ter feito a avaliação do repertório prévio dos alunos para realização de uma situação de ensino), além de nessas situações ter estabelecido pontualmente algumas relações de dependência entre seus objetivos, práticas de ensino e medidas de desempenho dos alunos diante dessas práticas. Por se tratar de um trabalho colaborativo, a troca de conhecimento entre pesquisadora e participante era algo pretendido e sobre isso a participante contribuiu descrevendo práticas para o ensino de habilidades pré-aritméticas, bem como pensando em possibilidades de ensino para aquelas que ainda não faziam parte do seu dia-a-dia. Falas da participante indicaram que alguns elementos do trabalho colaborativo não estiveram presentes em toda a interação, como por exemplo, a co-responsabilidade pelo trabalho. Alterações no procedimento aqui descrito foram sugeridas visando alterar essa característica da interação.

This project details the designing and implementation of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Curriculum to prepare English learners to become Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center (UVRMC) in Provo, Utah. UVRMC, which is owned by Intermountain Health Care (IHC), employs a group of about 40 non-native speakers of English. They work as housekeepers and have interest in learning English and consequently acquiring new skills they could use in better jobs to improve the quality of their lives. UVRMC would like these employees to obtain additional education in order to provide them with better employment opportunities. UVRMC allowed two graduate students at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham University to design and implement an ESP course to help UVRMC housekeepers improve their language skills in preparation to apply and participate in a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) course offered through IHC University. This report covers the linguistic needs analysis of the participants, situational analysis of UVRMC in terms of the support given to the curriculum, the designing of goals and objectives, the syllabus, the teaching of the syllabus, some material development, and the assessment of language learning. It also describes the instruments used to obtain information during each step of the designing of the curriculum and its implementation, analyzes that information, presents results, assesses the curriculum's efficacy, and explains the implications for other ESP curricula in the field of nursing and other scientific fields.