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One of the three-fold purposes of this study is to indicate the relationship between the cultural advancements of the Cherokees and the development and implementation of a written, printable language into their culture. In fulfilling a second purposes, the study emphasizes the influence of literacy on the social values of the Cherokees. The third purpose is to consider the idea of the Cherokees themselves that bi-lingual education, first in Cherokee, then in English, and a renewed national pride and productivity in literacy could go far in solving the problems of social alienation and educational negativism that exist among un-assimilated Cherokees.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of adolescents with traumatic brain injury on a written persuasive discourse task. Nine adolescents with TBI (mean age = 14 years 4 months) and nine age, gender and education matched peers completed a written essay on the topic of whether trained animals in circuses should be allowed to perform for the public. Language measures included productivity (number of words, number of T-units and mean length of T-unit) and complexity (number of clauses, clause density and clause breakdown). Pragmatic measures were drawn from the developmental persuasive discourse literature and included essential elements of argument (claim, number of reasons, number of elaborations, conclusion, irrelevancies, repetition of information and attitude). In comparison to their age-matched peers, the TBI group produced significantly fewer reasons to support their claims, significantly more repetitions of information and failed to take alternative perspectives on the topic. There were no significant differences on any measures of language productivity or complexity, however the TBI group performed consistently below their peers on these measures. The results are discussed alongside current literature in the field of discourse production and persuasion. Implications for clinical practice and future directions for research in this area are also offered.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of adolescents with traumatic brain injury on a written persuasive discourse task. Nine adolescents with TBI (mean age = 14 years 4 months) and nine age, gender and education matched peers completed a written essay on the topic of whether trained animals in circuses should be allowed to perform for the public. Language measures included productivity (number of words, number of T-units and mean length of T-unit) and complexity (number of clauses, clause density and clause breakdown). Pragmatic measures were drawn from the developmental persuasive discourse literature and included essential elements of argument (claim, number of reasons, number of elaborations, conclusion, irrelevancies, repetition of information and attitude). In comparison to their age-matched peers, the TBI group produced significantly fewer reasons to support their claims, significantly more repetitions of information and failed to take alternative perspectives on the topic. There were no significant differences on any measures of language productivity or complexity, however the TBI group performed consistently below their peers on these measures. The results are discussed alongside current literature in the field of discourse production and persuasion. Implications for clinical practice and future directions for research in this area are also offered.

From the point of departure of a literacy perspective the aim of this study is to, examine how preschool teachers form and stage a learning environment that facilitates the language development of preschool children. The focus of our study is to explore how preschool teachers stress the importance of the learning environment when it comes to furthering language development and to examine the literacy events staged by preschool teachers. Our study is based on qualitative interviews with four preschool teachers working in different areas of Stockholm. One of the preschools participate in a language project. The other preschools are without alignment. We have also carried out observations in preschool environments, in order to examine the possibilities for preschool children to develop their language skills. To analyse our results we have used a literacy perspective where literacyevent is a central concept. The result of our study demonstrates that preschool teachers create possibilities for preschool children to become familiar with language in many different ways. Specifically prominent is bookreading, narrative, signs and symbols. The preschool which took part in a language projekt differed from the other as this preschool worked more consciously with books and narrative to support childrens literacy competense. The environment of this preschool also stands out from the other preschools whereby the promotion of language can be observed in all parts of the environment. It was shown both in the placement of the books and in how the preschool teachers talked about the importance of the books. The result of our study shows that all preschool teachers are very conscious of how childrens language can be promoted. However, the results also brings to light that not all teachers are as conscious of this when it comes to how to promote writing in the youngest children in the preschool. The results of our interviews reveal that preschool teachers consciously work in many different ways to promote language development for preschoolers from a literacy perspective. They are, however, not aware of the term literacy in relation to written language.

This essay discusses children's spontaneous exploration of the written language. The aims is toinvestigates preschool teachers perception of supporting children in the spontaneous exploration ofthe written language. The reason we want to find out preschool teachers perception is due to what wefound out in the previous research, which shows that the interaction between educators and childrenaffects how students perform. The method used is qualitative which was a semi-structured interview.We also did a short observation where we looked at how the written language was visible in theenvironment. We used this as a basis to one of the questions in the interview. The result and analysisof this essay shows that the teachers in this study perceive that many factors matters when theyshould support children in their exploration of the written language. Teachers perceive that theirapproach o and their design of the environment is main factors when it comes to their supporting ofchildren's’'s spontaneous exploration of the written language. Teachers perceive that their approachand their design of the environment is main factors when it comes to their supporting of children's’'sspontaneous exploration of the written language / <p>Godkännande datum: 2019-06-07</p>

Orientador: Lourenço Chacon / Banca: Fabiana Cristina Komesu / Banca: Raquel Salek Fiad / Resumo: Pelo fato de freqüentemente encontrarmos na escrita inicial de crianças a inserção de espaços em branco no interior de palavras, ou seja, separações além das previstas pela ortografia convencional, denominadas aqui de hipersegmentações, este trabalho visa, a partir deste fenômeno lingüístico, promover uma reflexão a respeito de aspectos convencionais de linguagem escrita. Para tanto, optamos pelo estudo longitudinal de produções textuais de crianças durante as três primeiras séries do ensino fundamental, buscando, em especial, demonstrar que as hipersegmentações são marcas de um sistema em construção, índices do trânsito do sujeito aprendiz pelos diferentes modos de enunciação da língua, em oposição a uma visão mais patologizante que freqüentemente as considera como "erro", sinais de incapacidade e desatenção por parte do escrevente. Este estudo teve como hipóteses centrais a possibilidade de as hipersegmentações encontradas em produções textuais de início do processo de escolarização (1) serem representativas da inserção do sujeito escrevente em práticas orais e letradas constitutivas de seu aprendizado (institucional ou não) da escrita; e (2) tenderem a ocorrer de acordo com alguns movimentos ao longo deste processo, rumo a uma proximidade com o que se entende por escrita padrão, podendo se constituir em momentos de manifestação da subjetividade do produtor do texto. Assim, tendo por base os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos do paradigma indiciário, pudemos constatar que as estruturas das hipersegmentações encontradas nos textos infantis seriam resultado do trânsito do sujeito escrevente por práticas sociais de oralidade (observadas neste trabalho sob a forma de constituintes prosódicos, propostos por NESPOR & VOGEL (1986)) e de letramento, podendo ser vistas como índices do modo heterogêneo de constituição da escrita... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Taking into account the fact that, in the initial writing of children, insertions of blank spaces in the interior of words are frequent, this work aims at promoting a reflection regarding conventional aspects of written language. The focus of this research will be the separations beyond those foreseen by the conventional orthography, called here "hypersegmentations". Thus, a longitudinal study of written texts produced by a group of children during the three first years of elementary school was developed, in an attempt to demonstrate that hypersegmentations are marks of a system in construction. In opposition to a pathological view that frequently considers the hypersegmentations as "errors" or signs of the writer's incapacity and carelessness, here they will be considerered as indications of the learner's transit through the different ways of language articulation. This study had as central hypothesis the possibility of the hypersegmentation (1) to be representative of the insertion of the writer in orality and literacy practices; and (2) to tend in accordance with some movements throughout this process, toward a proximity with what is understood as standard writing, being able to be seen as moments of subjectivity of the writer. Thus, based on the theoretical-methodological presuppositions of the sign paradigm, we could evidence that the hypersegmentation structures would be, in a certain measure, similar to prosodic constituents such as those proposed by NESPOR & VOGEL (1986), with partial correspondence to orthographic conventions. Consequently, they can be seen as indices of the heterogeneous way of constitution of the writing, as formulated by Corrêa (2004). We also verified that, even when the amount of hypersegmentation has oscillated throughout the three years, it was possible to identify regularity in its way of emergence, in a way that we could distinguish three more... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Maria Laura T. Mayrink-Sabinson / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-25T07:12:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vidon_LucianoNovaes_M.pdf: 3875315 bytes, checksum: 08abd6f38f6685b7fcb5fe228abb1d0b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 / Resumo: O presente trabalho teve como principal objetivo discutir a questão da individualidade na aquisição da escrita e do papel do outro na constituição dessa individualidade. Para isto, tomaram-se como dados, constituindo-se um corpus longitudinal, textos escritos por um sujeito nos momentos iniciais de aprendizado de uma representação escrita para a linguagem verbal. Os textos escolhidos para serem analisados foram aqueles em que poderiam ser encontradas, de alguma forma, tentativas de argumentação. A razão principal desta escolha se deve ao fato de estes textos, nos momentos iniciais de escrita de alunos do ensino fundamental, não serem muito trabalhados pela escola, pelo menos comparando-os ao trabalho realizado com os textos do tipo narrativo-literário, lidos e produzidos, freqüentem ente, neste momento. O exame do corpus foi de cunho qualitativo, interessando, especialmente, a análise do dado singular, capaz de iluminar aspectos muito particulares de certos processos, como os de aquisição da escrita e constituição do estilo. Fundamentado numa concepção sócio-histórica de linguagem, concebendo o estilo como marca de trabalho do sujeito, refletindo um processo de escolhas, e entendendo a enunciação como um processo, essencialmente, interlocutivo, em que há produção de linguagem e constituição de sujeitos, tentou-se, basicamente, refletir sobre o papel da escolarização formal na constituição da individualidade ou de uma autonomia na hora de o sujeito escrever um texto / Abstract: The main objective of this dissertation is to discuss the question of individuality in language acquisition and the other's constitutive role in it. Data were taken from a longitudinal corpus of texts written by one subject, at different moments during elementary school, learning a written representation of the spoken language (Portuguese). The texts analized were those in which there was some kind of attempt to construct an argument, a form of discourse not specifically taught in elementary school. Analysis was qualitative rather than quantitative, centered on singular data which would clarify certain very particular processes such as the acquisition of written language and the constitution of written style. Conceiving style as subject's work with/on language that reflects a process of choices visible through indicia present in texts, along with understanding enunciation as an essentially interlocutive process, in which there is production of language and the constitution of language subjects, we discuss the role of formal education/schooling in the constitution of individuality and authonomy in text production within a social-historical conception of language / Mestrado / Ensino-Aprendizagem de Lingua Materna / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada