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Finzel, Anna Magdalena. "English in the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong : a case study of shop signs and linguistic competence." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6412/.
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Especially for the last twenty years, the studies of Linguistic Landscapes (LLs) have been gaining the status as an autonomous linguistic discipline. The LL of a (mostly) geographically limited area – which consists of e.g. billboards, posters, shop signs, material for election campaigns, etc. – gives deep insights into the presence or absence of languages in that particular area. Thus, LL not only allows to conclude from the presence of a language to its dominance, but also from its absence to the oppression of minorities, above all in areas where minority languages should – demographically seen – be visible. The LLs of big cities are fruitful research areas due to the mass of linguistic data.
The first part of this paper deals with the theoretical and practical research that has been conducted in LL studies so far. A summary of the theory, methodologies and different approaches is given.
In the second part I apply the theoretical basis to my own case study. For this, the LLs of two shopping streets in different areas of Hong Kong were examined in 2010. It seems likely that the linguistic competence of English must be rather high in Hong Kong, due to the long-lasting influence of British culture and mentality and the official status of the language. The case study's results are based on empirical data showing the objectively visible presence of English in both examined areas, as well as on two surveys. Those were conducted both openly and anonymously.
The surveys are a reinsurance measuring the level of linguistic competence of English in Hong Kong. That level was defined before by an analysis of the LL. Hence, this case study is a new approach to LL analysis which does not end with the description of its material composition (as have done most studies before), but which rather includes its creators by asking in what way people's actual linguistic competence is reflected in Hong Kong's LL.<br>Das Forschungsfeld der Linguistic Landscape (LL) hat sich vor allem in den letzten zwanzig Jahren als autonome Disziplin im Bereich der Sprachwissenschaft emanzipiert. Die LL eines meist geografisch eingegrenzten Gebietes – die beispielsweise aus Reklametafeln, Plakaten, Ladenschildern, Wahlkampfpropaganda, etc. besteht – erlaubt tiefe Einblicke in die An- oder Abwesenheit von Sprachen auf dem jeweiligen Gebiet. Die LL lässt dadurch nicht nur Rückschlüsse auf die Dominanz einer Sprache aufgrund ihrer Anwesenheit zu, sondern auch auf die Unterdrückung einer Minderheit durch die Abwesenheit ihrer Sprache an Orten, an denen die Minderheitensprache demografisch gesehen eigentlich sichtbar sein müsste. Wegen des Überflusses an linguistischen Daten in den LLs großer Städte sind diese ergiebige Tätigkeitsfelder für die Disziplin.
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich im ersten Teil mit der theoretischen und praktischen Forschung, die es bislang zu diesem Thema gab. Sie prüft den Stand der Theoriebildung, fasst Methodiken zusammen und gibt einen Überblick über verschiedene Ansätze.
Im zweiten Teil wird die theoretische Basis auf eine eigene Fallstudie angewendet. Für diese wurden 2010 die LLs zweier Einkaufsstraßen in unterschiedlichen Gegenden Hong Kongs untersucht. Durch den dort lange währenden Einfluss der englischen Kultur und Mentalität und den offiziellen Status der Sprache liegt der Schluss nahe, dass die Sprachkompetenz des Englischen in Hong Kong eher hoch sein muss. Die Ergebnisse der Fallstudie basieren sowohl auf der Erhebung von statistischen Daten, die die objektive Anwesenheit des Englischen in der LL beider untersuchten Gegenden zeigt, als auch auf zwei daraus resultierenden Befragungen. Diese wurden zum einen offen, zum anderen anonym durchgeführt.
Die Befragungen stellen eine Rückversicherung dar, die den Grad der Sprachkompetenz des Englischen in Hong Kong misst, welcher zuvor anhand der LL festgestellt wurde. Damit bietet die Fallstudie einen neuen Ansatz der Untersuchung einer LL, der im Gegensatz zu vorangegangenen Studien nicht bei der Beschreibung ihrer materiellen Beschaffenheit endet, sondern auch ihre Schöpfenden miteinbezieht und sich fragt, inwiefern die LL von Hong Kong die tatsächliche Sprachkompetenz der Menschen widerspiegelt.
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Whitman, Marilyn V. Permaloff Anne. "An examination of cultural and linguistic competence in health care." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Dissertations/WHITMAN_MARILYN_10.pdf.
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Jonsson, Oskar. "We need to talk about erm linguistic fillers : Students' use of linguistic fillers in varying situation." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-59501.
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The following essay presents a case study based on participant observation of a group of Swedish secondary school students’ interaction in English. The study focused on what is commonly referred to as communicative competence, or more specifically strategic competence, which represents how language speakers overcome linguistic breakdowns or gaps in their communicative skill. The aim of the study was to better understand how students use linguistic fillers in different situations. By observing students in two different situations, one stressful and one regular conversational situation, it was found that when in a stressful situation, students are more likely to use linguistic fillers in general and also that some students rely on their first language, Swedish, when using linguistic fillers. In this case study, it was found that some students experience difficulties in using English linguistic fillers. Based on these findings, there is a need for teachers to address this problem if students are to develop confidence and skill in using them. For this reason, there is a need for further research on developing and testing different teaching methods on the use of linguistic fillers. Keywords: communicative competence, EFL, language didactics, linguistic fillers, participant observation, secondary school students, strategic competence.
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O'Reilly, David. "An investigation into metaphoric competence in the L2 : a linguistic approach." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19853/.
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Within the field of L2 metaphoric competence (MC) research, Low’s (1988) and Littlemore and Low’s (2006a, 2006b) metaphor-related skills and (sub)competences have existed for 29 and 11 years respectively, but have never been elicited or used to develop tests. Consequently, the extent to which they are underpinned by more fundamental (sub)constructs is unclear. With a few exceptions (e.g., Littlemore, 2001), L2 MC tests to date have been limited in scope (e.g., Aleshtar & Dowlatabadi, 2014; Azuma, 2005; Hashemian & Nezhad, 2007; Zhao, Yu, & Yang, 2014). Available research shows that L2 MC correlates with L2 vocabulary knowledge and proficiency (Aleshtar & Dowlatabadi, 2014; Zhao et al., 2014), but negligibly with time spent in an L2 immersion setting (Azuma, 2005). However, the ability of these measures to predict L2 MC is unknown, as is the change in the receptive/productive correlation strength as L2 proficiency increases. In response to these gaps, a large battery of L2 MC tests aimed at eliciting Low’s (1988) and Littlemore and Low’s (2006a, 2006b) constructs was developed and administered to 112 NNSs of English (L1 Chinese) and 31 English NSs, along with vocabulary knowledge and (NNSs only) general proficiency tests. Data cleaning showed inherent, operationalisation problems. Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed four metaphor-related factors, with MANOVA and independent samples t-tests showing statistical NNS and NS differences for only one of these: English Grammatical Metaphoric Competence. Multiple regression revealed that the Oxford Online Placement Test best predicted L2 receptive MC, whereas L2 vocabulary depth measured by the Word Associates Test (Read, 1998) best predicted L2 productive MC. Time spent living in the UK had no predictive power, and the receptive/productive correlation weakened with increased L2 proficiency. Implications for theory, test development, the transferability of models and predictors (e.g., to NNSs with other L1s) and EFL teaching are discussed.
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Ariyanto, Sugeng. "An applied linguistic analysis of EFL teacher trainees' communicative competence in Jember, Indonesia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arma718.pdf.
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Nguyen, Dung Thi. "Vietnamese Students' Translanguaging in a Bilingual Context: Communications within a Student Organization at a US University." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248528/.
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Today linguistic hybridity is often conceptualized as translanguaging. The present study of translanguaging was a linguistic ethnography, which meant investigating cultural issues as well as linguistic practices. The focus was on bilingual speakers of Vietnamese and English, two "named" languages that differ considerably in morphology, syntax, and orthography. This study, conducted over four and a half months, was situated in the Vietnamese Student Organization of a U.S. university, and it included 37 participants. The research was intended to answer two questions: what forms of translanguaging did these bilinguals use? and what reasons did they provide for instances of translanguaging? In capturing the language use of this community, my role was participant-observer, which entailed observing and audio-recording conversations in three kinds of settings: group meetings, social gatherings, and Facebook communications. Additional insights came from discourse-based interviews, focused on instances of translanguaging by 10 individuals.
In the group meetings and Facebook conversations, it was conventional for the major language to be English, whereas in the social gatherings it was Vietnamese. My attention in analyzing these interactions was on patterns of translanguaging that occurred within sentences and those occurring outside sentence boundaries. Overall, most translanguaging occurred intra-sententially, as single words from one language were segmented within a sentence being spoken or written in the other. As to extra-sentential forms, this translanguaging in the group meetings mainly took the form of Vietnamese honorifics, and Facebook conversations included some extra-sentential double postings. Participants provided reasons for translanguaging that included community factors, discourse-related factors, and individual-related factors. This inquiry provides further insights into the multi-competences of bilingual individuals. The Vietnamese-English bilinguals drew flexibly from their linguistic repertoires, merging two languages that are quite different. Use of hybridized language was conventional for them and was central to their practices. This linguistic hybridity was a mutuality—one of the ways in which these students were, in fact, a community.
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Ponder, Linda Milam. "Improving access to care by determining key elements of culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare interventions for Hispanic populations in Texas using a Delphi technique." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4908.
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Cultural competence, mandated by Federal law since 1964, has not been
appropriately addressed due to its lack of specifics and the lack of specifics within
subsequent mandates. This study was designed to determine specific key elements of
cultural and linguistic appropriateness which would "operationalize" cultural
competence in the provision of healthcare services. Knowing the elements of cultural
and linguistic appropriateness will assist non-Hispanic healthcare providers to remove
personal barriers of cultural and linguistic differences for Texas' Hispanic population.
The problem of cultural competence gained national focus during the Civil
Rights movement of the '60s. Current research revealed that Hispanics continue to have
the worst healthcare outcomes of any minority population. Census data reflecting that
Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the population, with Texas having the
nation's second largest Hispanic population, make it imperative for healthcare providers
to determine methods to improve healthcare for Texas' Hispanic population. A Delphi Technique was used to extract expert opinions from 26 highly
qualified, Texas Hispanic healthcare providers regarding the key elements of cultural
and linguistic appropriateness for Texas' Hispanic population. The ultimate goal of the
research was to determine essential information which would assist non-Hispanic
healthcare providers in removing personal barriers of cultural and linguistic
appropriateness to the delivery of healthcare services for Texas' Hispanics.
Through the approximately 16-month process of the Delphi Technique, the Panel
produced 249 distinct elements in 11 groups of cultural appropriateness and 8 groups of
linguistic appropriateness. Members of the Panel ranked the groups for importance,
indicated the level of agreement/disagreement with each element, and rated each element
for its individual importance.
This study is important because it is the first time an expert panel of solely
Hispanic healthcare providers has spoken collectively about what constitutes cultural
and linguistic appropriateness. This research can provide a framework for professional
practices, grant providing organizations, or evaluation teams to assess professionals and
programs to determine their degree of cultural and linguistic appropriateness. The work
can also form the basis for curricula to be used in Texas' healthcare professions
preparatory schools or continuing education for practicing healthcare professionals.
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McWilliam, Donna M. "A study into the discussion skills of nursery school children." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1999. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21438.
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The research comprised of three studies which examined the discussion skills of preschool children in different contexts. The first study was concerned with how frequently pre-schoolers could use complex linguistic strategies (such as giving justifications) in conflict situations, and in relation to gender, class and play activity. The second study was very similar to this but examined how complex speech acts were produced in a co-operative context. It was found that children could produce complex language relatively frequently in both conflictual and co-operative contexts. No substantial sex differences were recorded for the complexity of speech acts used but there were significant variations noted for class in Study 1, with children from the privately run nursery showing greater linguistic competence than their state-school peers. Play activity had a marked effect on the type of dialogue produced. Skilful language was associated with symbolic play whereas sand & water activities and individual pursuits were characterised by predominantly simple speech. The final study primarily built-upon the results obtained in Study 2 which had revealed that one specific pattern of dialogue often led to the production of complex speech. In order to further improve this output, this Particular pattern of speech was encouraged via a scaffolding procedure. This was successful in increasing the amount of individual complex speech strategies produced, but was less effective in frequently eliciting the required dialogue pattern. Overall, it was demonstrated that preschool children were linguistically more competent than many theorists or educational guidelines have suggested. Moreover, it appears that young children are able to engage in complex speech in both conflictual and co-operative situations, although it was also shown that the type of play activity may influence these discussion skills.
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Gupta, Abha. "Linguistic issues in the competence and performance of hearing-impaired children: The GAEL Test." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185584.
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This is a linguistic analysis of elicited responses obtained in a language proficiency test of hearing impaired children (Grammatical Analysis of Elicited Language). The analysis focuses on the language, the social situation and setting of the test activity to describe the characteristics that are observable in the elicited responses--specifically the deviations from the target responses of the test, and on discovering the underlying rules that function to guide some of the systematic deviations in the participants' language in the test. The study examines the following features of the deviated responses: the grammatical structure, the syntactic/semantic acceptance and contextual appropriateness of the responses. The study develops procedures for analysis along each of these dimensions, called the Observed Response Analysis based on miscue analysis (Goodman: 1987) and error analysis (Corder: 1981). Some of the deviations were shown to be significantly systematic throughout the test. These systematic grammatical structures in children's underlying system were validated by the developed methodology. There were also many cases where the deviations were inconsistent, the grammatical structures were used 'correctly' at one place and 'incorrectly' at another. This inconsistency in language stems from the transitional nature of grammar which the learners are using. It has puzzled some teachers for a long time how a speaker can know something in one context and not know it in another context. Such uncertainties arise from the belief that speaking is word recall. The imitative responses were also inconsistent sometimes, implying thereby that speaking is more than simply imitating, memorizing or recalling. Children's language took precedence over the language of the test. This understanding of the psycholinguistic processes involved in deviations from the expected language of the test has pedagogical implications for the teachers, testers, or any educators who would like to use tests for diagnostic or prescriptive purpose and adds to the knowledge of not only 'what' children do on the language tests but 'why' they show specific linguistic deviations and what these deviations reflect about children's developing language competencies.
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Gabrielson, Eva. "Getting your message across. : Evaluating cross-linguistic influence on communicative competence in written learner English." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-171710.
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Abstract Acquiring communicative competence and the ability to communicate in writing are essential goals for second language learners and of the highest importance to achieving educational success. Opportunities to express ideas in writing are essential for students’ language development. Learners therefore need to be encouraged to take the risk of making errors in order to be able to express ideas, thoughts and knowledge with enthusiasm. This thesis defines and investigates some important factors contributing to the development of communicative competence and performance in the context of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The main aim of the study is to focus on how Swedish learners make use of their first language (L1) as a cognitive and strategic source in their written English communication. Cross-linguistic influence, or transfer errors, from Swedish in the written English of high school students are taken from samples of writing from the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC). The study evaluates the potential of transfer from the L1 to either facilitate or inhibit the communicative purpose, i.e., ‘getting the message across’. The most serious errors in the data were found to result in confusing, inappropriate or incomprehensible structures. Finally, the study draws attention to some aspects of communicative language teaching and learning that teachers should be aware of in the development and assessment of students’ communicative ability in written performance. The study found that negative language transfer was found to affect communication to various degrees of seriousness but could at times also be considered a useful and necessary strategy for getting a message across. Transfer errors were often idiosyncratic and were most frequent among males between 16-17 years-old enrolled in vocational programmes. Prepositional transfer errors were the most common, however; incorrectly used lexical items, in particular, false friends and other vocabulary substitutions, as well as literal translations of phrases and idiomatic expressions potentially resulted in the most serious errors. Word order errors also interfered substantially with the message in many cases. On the other hand, grammatical transfer errors such as incorrect us of articles, pluralisation and verb tense generally did not change the meaning to any greater extent. In fact, transfer errors can be communicative as long as the message gets across.
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Huong, Dang Thi, and n/a. "A cross-cultural study on the way in which speakers of Vietnamese and speakers of English issue, accept and decline spoken invitations." University of Canberra. Education, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060731.161630.
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In this field study report, the author investigates behaviour
associated with inviting in order to see if there is any effect on the
language used across cultures due to factors such as status, age,
gender in actual social interactions.
Chapter one gives a brief introduction to the important role of the
English Language in the world in general, and in Vietnam
nowadays in particular, and a review of Teaching Methods which
have been used in Vietnam so far.
Chapter two will deal with the theoretical background, language
competences including linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence and communicative competence. In addition, speech
act theory , face work, distance, power in relation to status, age
and gender as well as reviews research on the differences between
spoken and written are also discussed.
Chapter three defines the structure of an invite with its social and
cultural characteristics focussing on the natural structure of a
spoken invitation.
Chapter four describes research and data analysis of the issuing,
accepting and declining of spoken invitations used by Vietnamese
speakers of Vietnamese (VSV).
Chapter five contains the data analysis of the issuing, accepting
and declining of spoken invitations used by Australian speakers of
English (ASE).
Chapter six discusses the comparison of Vietnamese and
Australian spoken invitations, the main difference being found in
the use of much more direct forms used in VSV as opposed to more
tentative forms preferred by ASEs. Directness of form, however,
does not reflect a lack of politeness, which is conveyed to a much
larger extent by other prosodic and paralinguistic features.
Chapter seven is a brief cross-cultural investigation of the spoken
invitations of Vietnamese learners speaking English. This shows
up a degree of cross-cultural interference and offers some
implications for the classroom.
Chapter eight contains a summary and conclusion. The results
of the study may suggest that Vietnamese learners of English need
to be taught not only linguistic competence but also communicative
competence with an emphasis on cultural and social factors.
Spoken invitations which really have some function in actual
interactions need to be incorporated in the program for teaching
spoken English.
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Plumlee, Marilyn Kay. "Making do with what you've got the use of prosody as a linguistic resource in second language narratives /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765031661&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233341179&clientId=23440.
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Moloney, Robyn Anne. "Intercultural competence in young language learners: a case study." Faculty of Education and Social Work, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2440.
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Doctor of Education<br>With the heightened profile of language learning in a global community, language education is exploring a new model of intercultural language learning. The goal of intercultural language learning is to produce language users equipped with explicit skills in understanding connections and differences between their own culture and the culture of the target language. The research literature suggests that language learners’ resulting intercultural competence will encompass a range of characteristics. There have been few empirical studies, however, to provide illustration of intercultural competence, in order to assist teachers’ understanding of desired outcomes and student development. This case study investigates the characteristics of intercultural competence in young language learners in one Australian primary school. The learners have been engaged in an immersion language program for up to eight years, in one of three languages: French, German or Japanese. The study also investigates the behaviours and understandings in their language teachers which may facilitate the development of learners’ intercultural competence. It explores in summary what may be the nature of intercultural competence in the case study language learners. The study is relevant to research of both intercultural language learning and of immersion language classrooms. Using a case study design, the study incorporates qualitative data in the form of student focus group interviews, teacher interviews, and classroom observations. Data were collected at the case study school, in Sydney, Australia, over a school semester, and involved 49 Year 6 students and four teachers. Results of the study suggest a number of indicators of the case study students’ development in intercultural competence – that is, through understanding of language culture and identity. The student is and sees him or herself as a purposeful interactive communicator. The student understands the target language itself to be the vehicle of the target culture, and often displays metalinguistic curiosity and skills. Some students are able to critically reflect on their (multiple) linguistic and cultural memberships, and to negotiate their identity as a non-native language user. The study found that teachers provide a model of interculturality to their students. The teachers’ interculturality is enacted in their relationships and pedagogical choices, in their design of experiential learning tasks, and their facilitation of linguistic and cultural connections for their students. The study also found that the nature of the immersion language classroom itself facilitates intercultural competence in students. The study provides a case study illustration of intercultural competence in language learners which is relevant to research in intercultural language learning, immersion pedagogy and the emerging related pedagogy of content-based language learning.
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Ilosvay, Kimberly K. "A Qualitative Study of Language Beliefs and Linguistic Knowledge in Preservice Teachers Using the Intercultural Communicative Competence Framework." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/233.
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Since 1980, the number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has increased by 140% (United States Census Bureau, 2010). Therefore a greater percentage of students now are multilingual. Throughout the world, multilingualism is considered the norm and monolingualism is the exception (Auer & Wei, 2008). In the United States, however, policies regarding instruction in schools are still influenced by monolingual ideology that carries expectations and assumptions of assimilation, loss of mother tongues, and defined hierarchical structures. As classroom populations become socially, ethnically, racially, and linguistically more diverse, it is increasingly important for teachers to have an understanding of how to address diversity in schools and for educators to understand how language use and the teachers' role in the classroom impacts learning. This paper explored the existing language beliefs and linguistic knowledge of preservice teachers as they prepare to enter linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. The increasing prominence of cross-cultural interactions creates a necessity for teachers to develop intercultural competence. Employing a conceptual framework of intercultural communicative competence theory, this qualitative study investigated experiences and knowledge in linguistics that influence teacher speech acts. Research in fields of applied linguistics such as psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics revealed basic language knowledge that teachers need before they enter diverse classrooms including knowledge of language acquisition, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, culture, instruction language, and how the brain processes language. The literature from these fields was used to create an instrument that included a demographics questionnaire, beliefs survey, linguistic knowledge assessment, and interview questions. Twenty-three preservice teachers participated in the study to describe their language beliefs and knowledge. Many of the findings in this study reflected key-findings in the literature; however, this study also found several significant findings that extend existing research. The results revealed significant impacts of 1) individual experiences with culture and linguistic contact, 2) the language used in classrooms, specifically languages other than Standard English and the deep and surface structure of language, 3) linguistic knowledge, specifically phonology, 4) meta-cognitive behavior and reflection, and 5) differences between monolingual and multilingual preservice teachers. The data also indicated that the majority of preservice teachers were concerned about preparedness in teaching in diverse classrooms. Implications for teachers working in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms and for teacher preparation programs are discussed.
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Al-Amide, Mustafa. "Digital Games and the Development of Communicative Competence." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30840.
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The purpose of this paper was to review research within the field of digital games and language learning to explore whether gaming can facilitate communicative competence and foster motivation for language learning. To answer my questions I conducted a research synthesis, compiling a variety of research over the last decade to answer my questions as effectively as possible. Results showed that digital games do in fact facilitate language development and induce motivation. Research also showed that different games provide different opportunities and activities, resulting in some games fostering language competence more than others. For instance, World of Warcraft provided social situations where conversations were erratic, spontaneous, contextual and driven by small events in the game, while The Sims focused more on strategic and creative activities. Additionally, research suggested that digital games motivated learners to develop their L2 language in hope of achieving more goals together within a variety games and game types.
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Wysocka, Patrycja. "The study abroad experience : Self-reflecting on the development of intercultural competence and identity after one semester abroad." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144379.
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Study abroad programmes have become popular among students around the world nowadays. Thanks to the participation in the exchange, students are able to improve their intercultural skills, which may be beneficial for them in their future careers. This study investigates students’ development of intercultural competence and identity after spending one semester at the university in Hong Kong. Its main focus is to analyse how study abroad programmes impact students’ abilities in intercultural communication by analysing their self-reflections towards their re-invented identities as well as the overall experience of living and studying in a different country. The whole study is also based on the concept of linguistic repertoire, which is here being updated in the context of globalisation. In order to collect the data, four participants from the Netherlands, Germany and Canada were asked to fill in initial contact forms by providing information about one specific intercultural encounter that they have experienced during the study abroad period. This information then acted as the background knowledge used in the following interviews with each participant, where their opinions have been further developed in more detail. The results show that the participants further developed their skills in intercultural competence as well as enhanced their already interculturally-oriented identities. As for the impact on their linguistic repertoires, the interesting finding shows that the linguistic repertoires of the participants with English as a second language might have been affected slightly more than those of the native speakers. In the end, these results agree with the previous research on the development of intercultural skills after the study abroad period and highlight the importance of participating in study abroad programmes as students become prepared for their future careers in the highly globalised world.
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Скварча, Ольга Миколаївна, Ольга Николаевна Скварча та Olha Mykolaivna Skvarcha. "К вопросу о формировании лингвистической компетенции как фундамента коммуникативности при обучении РКИ". Thesis, Сумский государственный университет, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/34698.
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Опыт работы в преподавании РКИ показывает, что многие неудачи в обучении иностранных студентов объясняются отсутствием у них элементарных лингвистических знаний и связаны с тем, что для учащихся большую трудность в изучении иностранного языка представляет грамматика.
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Park, Misug. "A relational study of intercultural sensitivity with linguistic competence in english-as-a -foreign-language (EFL) pre-service teachers in Korea /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2006. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1257778901&SrchMode=1&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1193667975&clientId=22256.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2006.<br>Typescript Vita Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-101) Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users. The study examined the relationship between intercultural sensitivity and linguistic competence in English-as-Foreign-Language (EFL) pre-service teachers in Korea. One hundred and four pre-service teachers, enrolled at the two national universities in Korea, participated in the study. The data were collected by administering two instruments: the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) to measure the development of the participants' intercultural competence; and the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) to measure the levels of the participants' language competence. Correlation analysis and independent samples t-tests were used to address the research questions. The results indicated that little correlation was found between the level of intercultural sensitivity and linguistic competence. That is, while a significant mean difference was found in linguistic competence between primary and secondary pre-service teachers in Korea, the same participants still did not show a significant mean difference in the level of intercultural sensitivity. The results may imply that the development of intercultural competence can be shown relatively slower than the linguistic development. The findings of the study lend support for many theoretical claims that intercultural competence might not naturally grow with the development of linguistic competence. Thus, the findings of the study suggest that intercultural competence has to be taught explicitly, as we teach linguistic components in language education. The findings of the study also had other educational implications, such as the need for methods to improve and methods to evaluate intercultural competence in second/foreign language classrooms and teachers' programs.
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Beckman, Kristina. "COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ABILITIES IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM: A FORENSIC LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF A CHINESE IMMIGRANT'S RUN-IN WITH THE LAW." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1219%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Stål, Eva-Lena. "Skriftspråklig kompetens hos andraspråksinlärare : Analys av godkända texter från Tisustest och Nationella prov i Svenska som andraspråk B." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13993.
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Denna studie bygger på andraspråksinlärares skriftliga kompetens kopplad till syntaktiska och kommunikativa nivåer. I synnerhet är syftet att studera språkliga syntaktiska nivåer i texter skrivna av andraspråksinlärare som har behörighet att studera vid universitet. Ytterligare ett syfte är att studera om innehållet i texter kan förmedlas på ett kommunikativt och idiomatisk sätt. Den teoretiska ramen för att mäta syntaktiska nivåer som informanter i denna studie har uppnått bygger på processbarhetsteorin (Pienneman, 1998/ Pienneman & Håkansson, 1999). Studien visar att godkända texter i Svenska som andraspråk B och Tisustest uppnår nivå 4 och 5 på syntaktisk nivå. Studien visar också på variation av kommunikativ kompetens utifrån förmågan att förmedla ett central innehåll. Informanterna uppnår delvis målspråksnormen och delvis avviker från målspråksnormen i varierad grad vilket påverkar den kommunikativa kompetensen. Det mesta av resultatet pekar på individuella skillnader. Vad som kan förklara skillnader mellan informanterna kan delvis kopplas till varierad kognitiv svårighetsgrad i texterna. Studien visar att processbarhetsteorin kan vara ett fördelaktigt verktyg för att mäta syntaktiska nivåer i texter. Dock pekar studien på att det är av vikt att också genomföra en mer omfattande bedömning av kommunikativa språkkunskaper för att kunna göra en helhetsbedömning av skriftlig språkkompetens av andraspråksinlärare.<br>The present study concerns second language learners' syntactic and communicative competence in writing. The aim is to study syntactic performances in texts written by learners of Swedish as a second language permitted to study at university. Another aim is to discuss the communicative and idiomatic performances of the informants. The theoretical framework used for assessment of achieved syntactic levels is the Processability Theory (Pienneman, 1998/Pienneman & Håkansson, 1999). The results reveal that the students who´s texts in Svenska som andraspråk B[1]and the Tisustest[2]have passed the exam have achieved either syntactic level 4 or 5 according to Processability Theory. The study also reveals the variety of communicative and idiomatic competence based on the ability to convey a core content. The informants partly achieve and partly do not achieve the Swedish language norms, in various degrees, which effects the level of communicative competence which they are able to express. The results point to more or less individual differences. There are small differences between the group of informants in Svenska som andraspråk B and in the Tisustest. Possible causes for these differences may partly be connected to the varying degree of cognitive difficulty in producing the different texts. The study shows that the use of Processability Theory may be a beneficial tool to measure levels of syntactic proficiency levels in second language learner texts. However, it appears that it also is important to establish a comprehensive assessment of communicative language skills in order to make an overall assessment of written language skills of second language learners. [1]Swedish as a second language, level B [2]Tisus - Test in Swedish for university studies.
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Ekström, Andrea. "Foreign language communication anxiety in correlation to the sociolinguistic variables gender, age, performance and multilingual competence : A linguistic pilot study of Swedish students’ attitudes." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19129.
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This data-driven linguistic study investigates if levels of different types of foreign language communication anxiety, such as for speaking, listening, writing and/or reading that Swedish students in compulsory school (grades 7-9) and upper secondary school experience when communicating in English in their foreign language classes have any correlation to sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age, performance and/or multilingual competence. The compiled and analyzed self-report data have successfully provided a base for implied correlations between the different sociolinguistic variables and language anxiety. The most prominent indications of correlation to anxiety are the variables gender, performance (course grades) and linguistic competence. The age variable also showed indications of correlation but was less pronounced than the others. It was also found that students generally feel more and/or higher anxiety when speaking the target language than the other types of communication. The didactic implications that this study contributes to is that “communicating” as an activity conducted in the foreign language classroom needs to be further defined and broken down into specific types of skills (speaking, writing, listening, reading) and also be approached accordingly. This also implies that further research is needed to thoroughly examine the correlational effects different sociolinguistic variables have on the foreign language learning.
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Yuan, Yifeng. "Pragmatics, perceptions and strategies in Chinese college English learning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52860/1/Yifeng_Yuan_Thesis.pdf.
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This study investigated Chinese College English students. perceptions of pragmatics, their pragmatic competence in selected speech acts, strategies they employed in acquiring pragmatic knowledge, as well as their general approach to learning English as a foreign language. The research was triggered by a national curriculum initiative that prioritizes the need for College English students to enhance their ability to use English effectively in different social interactions (Chinese College English Education and Supervisory Committee, 2007).
The traditional "grammar-translation" and "examination-oriented" method is believed to have reduced Chinese College English students to what is dubbed "mute" and "deaf" language learners (Zhang, 2008; Zhao, 2009). Many students lack pragmatic knowledge on how to interpret discourse by relating utterances to their meanings, understanding the intention of language users, and how language is used in specific settings (Bachman & Palmer, 1996, 2010). There is an increasing body of literature on awareness-raising of the importance of pragmatic knowledge and strategies for classroom instruction. However, to date, researchers have tended to focus largely on the teaching of pragmatics, rather than on how students acquire pragmatic competence (Bardovi-Harlig & Dornyei, 1998; Du, 2004; Hou, 2007; Ruan, 2007; Schauer, 2009). It is this gap in the research that this study fills, with a focus on different types of pragmatic knowledge, learner perceptions of such knowledge, and learning strategies that College English students employ in the process of learning English in general, and pragmatics in particular.
Three strands of theories of second language acquisition (Ellis, 1985, 1994): pragmatics (Levinson, 1983; Mey, 2001; Yule, 1996), intercultural communications (Kramsch, 1998; Samovar & Porter, 1997; Samovar, Porter & McDaniel, 2009) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) (Canagarajah, 2006; Firth, 1996; Pennycook, 2010) were employed to establish a conceptual framework for data collection and analyses. Key constructs derived from the three related theories helped to form a typology for a detailed examination and theorization of the empirical evidence gathered from different sources.
Four research instruments: a questionnaire (N=237), Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) (N=55), focus group interviews (N=18), and a textbook tasks analysis were employed to collect data for this systematic inquiry. Data collected by different instruments were analyzed and compared by way of a triangulation to enhance its validity and reliability.
Major findings derived from different sources highlighted that, although College English students were grammatically advanced language learners, they displayed limited pragmatic knowledge and a highly restricted repertoire of language learning strategies. The majority of the respondents, however, believed that pragmatic knowledge was as important as linguistic knowledge in the process of developing communicative competence for interaction in different contexts. It was argued that a combination of a less than sufficient English proficiency, limited knowledge of pragmatics, inadequate language materials and tasks, and a small stock of language learning strategies, were a major hindrance to effective learning and communication, resulting in pragmatic failures in many intercultural communication situations.
As the first systematic study of how Chinese College English students learned pragmatics, the research provided a solid empirical base for developing a tentative model for the learning of pragmatics in a College English classroom in China and similar educational contexts. The model was strengthened by a unique combination of theories of pragmatics, intercultural communication and ELF. Findings from this research provided insights into how Chinese College English students perceived pragmatics in the English as foreign language (EFL) curriculum, the processes of learning, as well as strategies they utilized in developing linguistic and pragmatic knowledge and competence.
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Gomes, Edson José. "Qual o papel da gramática na aprendizagem do Francês Língua Estrangeira em contexto universitário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-27092011-092932/.
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Esta tese versa sobre o tema do papel que a gramática desempenha na aquisição da competência linguística no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem do francês como língua estrangeira (FLE). A principal causa para sua realização se encontra no domínio do uso da gramática em sala de aula. Pesquisas realizadas nos últimos anos têm debatido sobre o estudo excessivo das regras gramaticais no ensino de línguas, tanto materna quanto estrangeira, provocando, assim, distúrbios no desenvolvimento da competência linguística e, por conseguinte, da competência comunicativa. A hipótese que norteou a pesquisa foi a de que, em princípio, a abordagem gramatical não deve ser dissociada do âmbito da sala de aula nem o ensino de FLE deve ser orientado de maneira excessiva na descrição gramatical com a aplicação de exercícios estruturais. O corpus foi coletado a partir da elaboração de um questionário destinado aos discentes e docentes. As questões abertas tiveram por finalidade obter informações que pudessem responder à problemática estabelecida no início do trabalho e foram elaboradas de maneira que os informantes expressassem suas impressões verdadeiras e peculiares, além de caracterizar o tratamento dado à gramática pelo professor. Além do questionário, foi elaborado um diário de classe que foi desenvolvido a fim de auxiliar e relacionar os dados e informações obtidas por meio dos questionários. O objetivo principal foi de identificar de que forma ela conduz o aprendiz à aquisição da tão visada competência linguística. Ao final do estudo, concluiu-se que a maior parte dos aprendizes de FLE concebe a gramática como elemento importante, senão indispensável, para a aquisição da competência linguística e que, diante disso, os professores devem reconhecê-la como importante ferramenta no ensino do francês. Nesse sentido, concernente ao papel que a gramática desempenha no curso da aprendizagem do FLE, ficou claro que o estudo das suas regras nos níveis morfológico e sintático, em meio institucional, se revela bastante importante para que os aprendizes possam interiorizar a gramática implícita e, assim, produzir enunciados pertinentes à língua.<br>This thesis is concerned with the role that grammar exerts upon the acquisition of linguistic competence in the teaching and learning process of French as a foreign language (FFL). The main justification to its carrying out lies on the domain of grammar use in the language classroom. Researches undertaken in the last few years have debated upon the heavy study of grammar rules in the teaching of languages, both mother tongue and foreign ones, resulting in disturbance in the development of linguistic competence, as well as in the communicative competence. The hypothesis here is that, at first, the grammar approach must not be dissociated from the classroom environment, and neither the teaching of FFL must be oriented in an excessive way in the grammar description with de applying of structural exercises. The corpus was collected by means of a questionnaire applied to students and teachers. The open questions aimed at gathering information which could answer the question established in the beginning of this work, and they were made in a way that informants could express their true and peculiar impressions. The questionnaire also aimed at featuring the treatment given to grammar by the teacher. Besides the questionnaire, it was also created a classroom diary developed in order to help and relate data and information obtained through questionnaires. The principal objective was to identify which way grammar conducts the learner to the acquisition of the so called linguistic competence. At the end of the study it was concluded that most of the FFL learners conceive the grammar as an important element to the acquisition of linguistic competence, and as a result teachers must recognize it as being an important tool in the teaching of French. In this sense, concerned for the role that grammar exerts in the process of FFL learning, it was clear that the study of its rules at the levels of morphology and syntax, at institutional means, is of great importance to the learners, in order for them to internalize the implicit grammar, and thou produce speech relevant to the language.
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Дегтярьова, Тетяна Олегівна, Татьяна Олеговна Дегтярева та Tetiana Olehivna Dehtiarova. "Значение грамматики в формировании языковой компетенции студентов - иностранцев". Thesis, Издательство СумГУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17120.
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Місінькевич, О. М. "Мовна компетентність особистості в контексті глобалізаційних процесів (етнічний рівень)". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67171.
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Питання мовної компетентності, її формування та розвитку є
вкрай актуальним у системі глобалізаційних тенденцій сучасного
суспільства. Це поняття ввів у науковий обіг Н. Хомський, його
тлумачення у лінгвістичному аспекті маємо у книзі «Мова й
мислення» (1972).
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Salvador, de la Cruz Brigitte Dana, and Fuyo Vanessa Valeria Vasquez. "Estrategias de enseñanza usadas para el desarrollo de comprensión de lectura y expresión escrita en los alumnos de inglés del programa de Traducción e Interpretación de la UPC." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652434.
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Para la formación del traductor profesional es necesario desarrollar distintas competencias, una de las más importantes es la competencia lingüística. Sin embargo, durante los últimos años, el desarrollo de esta competencia se ha visto afectada debido a la creencia generalizada de que los estudiantes de traducción tienen un dominio completo de su segunda lengua. Ligado a la competencia lingüística, se encuentra el desarrollo de las destrezas de comprensión de lectura y expresión escrita, ambas fundamentales para el buen desempeño de los estudiantes en los cursos de traducción. Por ello, la presente investigación se centra en describir las estrategias de enseñanza utilizadas por los docentes de inglés para el desarrollo de la comprensión de lectura y la expresión escrita del programa de traducción e interpretación de la UPC. Para lograr esto, se propone analizar los documentos usados para la enseñanza de los cursos de inglés, observar las clases y realizar entrevistas en los dos últimos niveles de enseñanza de inglés (Inglés TI4 e Inglés TI5) con la finalidad de lograr los objetivos planteados.<br>In the professional translation training it is necessary to develop different competences, one of the most important is the linguistic competence. However, in recent years, the development of this competence has been affected due to the widespread belief that translation students have a comprehensive knowledge of the second language. Furthermore, the development of reading comprehension and writing skills is closely linked to the linguistic competence, and both are essential for students’ academic performance in translation courses. Therefore, this investigation focuses on describing the teaching strategies applied by English teachers in order to develop reading comprehension and writing skills in the translation and interpreting English program at UPC. To achieve this, we proposed to analyze the documents used for teaching English courses, observe classes, and conduct interviews in the last two levels of English teaching (Ingles TI4 and Ingles TI5).<br>Trabajo de investigación
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Herzmann, Charlotte Sonja [Verfasser], Manfred [Akademischer Betreuer] Herrmann, and Kerstin [Akademischer Betreuer] Konrad. "On the relation between implicit and explicit Theory of Mind and linguistic competence - An empirical approach / Charlotte Sonja Herzmann. Gutachter: Manfred Herrmann ; Kerstin Konrad. Betreuer: Manfred Herrmann." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1071993755/34.
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Fominienė, Vilija Bitė. "Kūno kultūros mokytojų nuostatos dėl pedagoginės komunikacijos kaip mokinių požiūrio į kūno kultūros ugdymąsi determinantės." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070504_151351-90168.
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The scientific problem of the dissertation: what attitudes on characteristics of linguistic communication competence dominate among physical education teachers considering their attitudes both on linguistic communication competence, and on communication in social situations? The research object – attitudes on linguistic communication competence and communication in social situations. The scientific solution of the research object that corresponds the research subject is oriented to the detection of verbal communication competence in native (Lithuanian) speech of physical education teachers as well as to the evaluation of their attitude on communication in social situations. The aim of the research was to disclose physical education teachers‘ attitudes on pedagogical communication as the determinants of pupils‘ approach to physical self-education.
The following statements substantiate scientific novelty of the research: in theoretical aspect the competences of a physical education teacher in revealing the role of linguistic communication competence in native (Lithuanian) speech were analysed, the peculiarities of the attitude of physical education teachers on communication competence were revealed, the features of the attitude of physical education teachers on communication in social situations were evaluated, the links of the attitude of the components of physical education teachers on linguistic communication competence in native (Lithuanian) speech and the attitude on... [to full text]
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Karem, Rachel W. "Comprehensive Assessment Practices for Multilingual Children: A Focus on Jamaican Preschoolers." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613749097327192.
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Farah, Nívea Eliane. "Proposta de desenvolvimento da Produção Textual na perspectiva da Educação Linguística: para além do ENEM." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19580.
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Previous issue date: 2016-12-08<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The theme of this thesis is the Text Production and it was bounded on the essays proposed by ENEM and its relation in the development of the writing competence in Portuguese classes in the 3rd. year of high school. Survey questions that guided the study are: 1) when teachers work text production, just focusing on the writing competence for ENEM, do they meet the students´ communicative interaction needs? 2) Does the focus on ENEM essays really develop the communicative competence that the Linguistic Education proposes for the teaching of the Portuguese Language? 3) What are the methodological strategies that can be adopted when teaching text production, so that the student is able to use it in different communicative situations throughout his life in society and can go beyond ENEM? The general objective is to develop a study on the writing competence to serve as a contribution to the practice of high school Portuguese language teachers aiming at a better quality of students´ text production in different social activities. The specific objectives are: 1) check if it is possible to develop the students´ communicative competence in relation to the writing skills with the proposals of ENEM used by the teacher in the classroom as a teaching resource; 2) identify theoretical studies to reflect on the possibility of making the writing production more meaningful ; 3) propose, from these data, ways that can assist teachers in the development of communicative competence that Linguistic Education proposes for the teaching of the Portuguese Language and for the formation of a producer of relevant texts. This work is justified due to many teachers guide their classes only in training the students to ENEM writing. The corpus is made up of the analysis of the proposals of the new ENEM Writing and Teaching Materials. Theoretically, the work is based on social cognitive-interactional theories and theoretical assumptions of Linguistic Education. The results show that it is not productive guide the curriculum only in preparation for the ENEM, it is necessary to think of textual production in real contexts<br>O tema desta Dissertação é a Produção Textual e foi delimitado às provas de redação propostas pelo ENEM e sua relação no desenvolvimento da competência escritora nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa na 3ª. série do Ensino Médio. As perguntas de pesquisa que orientaram o estudo são: 1) Os professores, ao trabalharem a produção textual, focando apenas a competência escritora para o ENEM, estão atendendo às necessidades de interação comunicativa dos estudantes? 2) Essa atitude de focar a Redação do ENEM leva a desenvolver a competência comunicativa que a Educação Linguística propõe para o Ensino da Língua Portuguesa? 3) Quais as estratégias metodológicas que podem ser adotadas, em termos de ensino da produção textual, para que o estudante seja capaz de utilizá-la em diferentes situações comunicativas ao longo de sua vida em sociedade e consiga ir além do ENEM? O objetivo geral é desenvolver um estudo sobre a competência escritora que sirva de contribuição para a prática dos docentes de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Médio com vistas à qualidade de produção de textos dos discentes em diferentes atividades sociais. Os objetivos específicos são: 1) verificar se há como desenvolver a competência comunicativa dos estudantes em relação às habilidades de escrita com as propostas do ENEM, utilizadas pelo professor em sala de aula como recurso didático; 2) identificar estudos teóricos que reflitam sobre a possibilidade de tornar mais significativa a produção escrita; 3) sugerir, a partir desses dados, caminhos que possam auxiliar os professores no desenvolvimento da competência comunicativa que a Educação Linguística propõe para o Ensino da Língua Portuguesa e para a formação de um produtor de textos competente. Este trabalho se justifica em função de muitos professores pautarem as aulas apenas num treino para a redação do ENEM. O corpus constitui-se das análises das Propostas de Redação do novo ENEM e dos Materiais Didáticos. Teoricamente, o trabalho fundamenta-se em Teorias Sociocognitivo-interacionais e nos pressupostos teóricos da Educação Linguística. Os resultados obtidos mostram que não é produtivo pautar o currículo apenas numa preparação para o ENEM, é necessário pensar na produção textual em contextos reais
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Coyle, Do. "Adolescent voices speak out : if only they would - if only they could : a case study : the interplay between linguistic and strategic competence in classrooms where modern languages are used." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12182/.
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This thesis focuses on groups of adolescent learners in two comprehensive schools. It explores the interplay between linguistic and strategic competence in classrooms where a foreign language is used i e. in French or Spanish lessons and in geography classes where the foreign language is also used as a medium for instruction. In Part 1, the research is positioned within a contextual, conceptual and theoretical framework, underpinned by Vygotskian socio-cognitive principles. Part 2 consists of an ethnographic-oriented.case study at two sites. The study uses methodological triangulation to co-construct the learning environments from different perspectives, based on document analysis, questionnaires, interviews, lesson observations and the microgenetic analysis of student interaction during linguistic tasks analysed at both an inter- and intramental level. The thesis is built on the metaphor of language games and identifies strategic and linguistic moves which could potentially bring about changing the rules in order to enable an alternative game to played. The thesis leads the writer to argue for a re-conceptualisation of learner strategies based on the notion of ‘strategic classrooms’ and recommends the integration of ‘alternative’ linguistic and strategic ‘moves' into everyday classroom practice if learners are to find a ‘voice’.
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Barra, Melissa Ann. "Teaching Spanish slang, familiar language, and electronic language in the classroom /." Click here to view full-text, 2007. http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/12/.
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Коньок, Ольга Петрівна, Ольга Петровна Конек, Olha Petrivna Konok, Аліна Владленівна Шевцова, Алина Владленовна Шевцова та Alina Vladlenivna Shevtsova. "Навчання мови професійного спілкування студентів іноземців інженерного профілю". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67116.
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Мовна компетенція, як правило, охоплює професійно-
комунікативні уміння особистості спілкуватися в типових умовах
професійної діяльності, володіння потенціалом професійного
дискурсу, уміння відтворювати навчально-наукові, технічні,
спеціальні тексти, здатність вирішувати комунікативні завдання в
складних ситуаціях професійного спілкування [1, 218].
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Мартиненко, А. В., та В. Василенко. "Формування термінологічної та мовнокомунікативної компетентностей правника". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/84802.
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Сучасний модернізований вектор бакалаврської освіти в
Україні спрямований на формування фахової компетентності, у
структурі якої важливими для забезпечення ефективної
професійної комунікації в обох її формах (усній та письмовій) є
термінологічна та мовнокомунікативна компетентності засобами
державної (української) і міжнародної (зокрема, англійської)
мов.
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Du, Plooy Amelia. "The impact of visual sequencing of pictures on the picture-based sentence construction of English-speaking Grade 2 learners." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27898.
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The aim of this study was to determine the role of visual language input on PCS sentence construction. Thirty-nine participants were divided into two comparable groups and exposed to two inputs of presentations of PCS to investigate the impact of each input on the sentence construction of the participants. In the SVO input the sequence of buttons was in the normal English word order sequence (Subject-Verb-Object) and in the SOV input the word order was Subject-Object-Verb. Both input groups had to answer six questions by using PCS as well as speech. The findings indicated that the participants did not sequence their output to match the word order of the unfamiliar SOV input. The participants receiving the SOV condition used fewer PCS elements than the participants receiving the SVO condition. The participants receiving the SVO and SOV inputs gave similar spoken answers. Reasons for these findings are discussed, as are the implications for further research.<br>Dissertation (M (Augmentative and Alternative Communication))--University of Pretoria, 2006.<br>Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC)<br>unrestricted
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Harris-Haywood, Sonja. "MEASURING CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY OF HEALTH PRACTITIONERS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1422394993.
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Chen, Cristina Rodriguez. "Culturally Competent Evaluations." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984176/.
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Significant growth in the number of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools is anticipated to continue, demanding that educators and evaluators have the skills necessary to distinguishing language difference from disability and provide appropriate services to these students. However, little research exists examining the role of evaluator's cultural competence in evaluating ELLs for special education; furthermore, what does exist shows that many evaluators report low levels of self-efficacy as it relates to assessing ELLs.
The first chapter of the dissertation reports on a review of 21 articles conducted to address best practices for evaluating culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, evaluator self-efficacy, and recommendations for conducting culturally competent assessments and evaluations. The majority of the articles identified in this review focused on recommendations for best practices for conducting evaluations rather than reporting empirical findings related to the topic. Only one study was identified that focused on appropriate training needed by evaluation staff to effectively discriminate between language difference and a disability. Based on the findings of this review, additional research, using a rigorous methodology is needed.
Addressing that need, the second chapter reports the results of a study conducted to examine the effectiveness of Project PEAC3E (Preparing Evaluators to Accurately Conduct Culturally Competent Evaluations), a reform-oriented professional development model, using case-based activities designed to increase evaluators' sense of self-efficacy, cultural competence, and the accuracy of evaluator eligibility decisions for English language learners (ELLs). The study found that Project PEAC3E was effective in increasing evaluator self-efficacy.
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Majos, Katarina. "Språkstimulerande pedagogisk verksamhet : En empirisk fallstudie utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-8955.
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It is important that children develop their communicating skills to be able to interact withother persons in different social contexts. Without the necessary skills, the child will struggleto understand others, as well as to be understood. My qualitative research takes place in a preschoolclass at a primary school in Stockholm, where I from a sociocultural perspective onteaching and learning aim to clarify how the students’ ability to develop their linguisticperformance and their communicative competence is stimulated within this primary preschool’seducational framework. Empirical data was collected both through observations ofthe daily activities in the pre-school class as well as through interviews of three employedteachers. My research indicates that the educational framework in this pre-school class is structured tocomply with the official Swedish Curriculum, Lpo. 94. The students’ linguistic performanceand their communicative competence were well stimulated through a diverse set of organizedactivities and their own unstructured play. My research also concludes that the educationalframework was built around a constant interaction and collaborative measures between theteachers and the students, as well as among the students themselves. I can from thesociocultural perspective hence conclude that the students are given all the tools needed todevelop their linguistic performance and their communicative competence.
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Padilha, Emanuele Coimbra. "RELAÇÕES ENTRE PRÁTICA DOCENTE E COMPETÊNCIA LINGUÍSTICO-COMUNICATIVA: A PERSPECTIVA DOS PRÓPRIOS PROFESSORES." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9917.
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This work aimed at investigating the relations between teaching practice and Language-communicative competence of Spanish Foreign Language teachers from the public school, through the inference of their beliefs. Therefore, we identified the beliefs about linguistic and communicative competence of teachers and, as a result, these beliefs were related to their performance reported by the participants themselves in the classroom. The participants of this study were two Spanish teachers, working in public schools in Santa Maria city, who performed the initial training in Letters-Spanish graduation at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The methodology used was a qualitative study of case, based on metacognitive approach beliefs research (BARCELOS, 2001). We applied a questionnaire to answer the main purpose. Secondly, a semi-structured interview was made. The results showed that these teachers believe Linguistic competence communicative is characterized by complementarity of linguistic and communicative component. This division into two components still carries a structuralist notion that considers the linguistic part precedes and prevails on the communications components and also that this is a belief that may have been caused by the influence of the nomenclature linguistic and communicative competence, by Almeida Filho (1993), adopted in this study. In relation to teaching practice reported by the teachers, it was found that the beliefs presented by the participants directly influence on performance. Thus, we concluded that the insufficient linguistic and communicative competence of the teacher leads to severe limitations in educational performance in relation to the oral performance.<br>Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar relações entre prática docente e competência linguístico-comunicativa de professores de Espanhol Língua Estrangeira da escola pública, por meio da inferência de suas crenças. Para tanto, identificaram-se as crenças sobre a própria competência linguístico-comunicativa dos professores e, na sequência, essas crenças foram relacionadas com a atuação relatada pelos próprios participantes em sala de aula. Os sujeitos deste trabalho foram duas professoras de língua espanhola, atuantes em escolas públicas da cidade de Santa Maria, que realizaram a formação inicial no Curso de Letras-Espanhol da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. A metodologia utilizada foi um estudo qualitativo de caso, baseada na abordagem metacognitiva de investigação de crenças (BARCELOS, 2001). Para responder ao objetivo principal, aplicou-se um questionário. Num segundo momento, realizou-se uma entrevista semi-estruturada. Os resultados mostraram que os professores acreditam que a competência linguístico-comunicativa caracteriza-se pela complementaridade do componente linguístico e do comunicativo. Essa divisão em dois componentes ainda carrega uma noção estruturalista que considera que a parte linguística antecede e tem primazia sobre os componentes comunicativos e, ainda, que essa é uma crença que pode ter sido originada pela influência da nomenclatura competência linguístico-comunicativa, de Almeida Filho (1993), adotada neste trabalho. Com relação à prática docente relatada pelas professoras, verificou-se que as crenças apresentadas pelas participantes influenciam diretamente na sua atuação. Nesse sentido, concluiu-se que a insuficiência na competência linguístico-comunicativa do professor leva a severas limitações na atuação docente no que se refere ao desempenho oral.
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Rupia-Löfberg, Evelina, and Sanaa Youssef. "Transkulturella möten i vården : Faktorer som påverkar vårdrelationen utifrån ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1200.
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Bakgrund: I ett alltmer mångkulturellt samhälle blir det märkbart hur förutsättningarna för en god hälsa skiljer sig mellan olika samhällsgrupper. Hälso- och sjukvården har som uppgift att främja hälsan hos alla patienter oavsett bakgrund. Detta ställer nya krav på den svenska sjukvården, då en mångkulturell utveckling leder till fler transkulturella möten i vården. Dessa möten innehåller ofta hinder som kan vara svåra att överbrygga, vilket kräver en kunskap om vilka faktorer som påverkar mötet och en medvetenhet om kulturens betydelse hos sjuksköterskan. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att utifrån ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv belysa de faktorer som påverkar vårdrelationen i transkulturella möten. Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på 13 vetenskapliga artiklar var av nio kvalitativa och fyra kvantitativa. Resultatet analyserades och sammanställdes genom ett kvalitativt analysinnehåll. Som teoretiska utgångspunkter användes en definition av kulturell kompetens och vårdrelation. Resultat: Resultatet visar att kommunikation och språkbarriärer utgör det största hindret i den transkulturella omvårdnaden. Användning av tolk som hjälpmedel visade sig ha både för- och nackdelar. Organisatoriska hinder försvårade förutsättningen för en fungerande vårdrelation och kulturella skillnader visade sig kunna leda till konflikter i vårdmötet. Sjuksköterskan använde sig av olika strategier som hjälpmedel vilket illustrerade en viss kulturell medvetenhet, medan bristen på förståelse ledde till generaliseringar som resulterade i en diskriminering av patienter. Många sjuksköterskor saknar utbildning i transkulturell omvårdnad, vilket efterfrågades av merparten. De sjuksköterskor som genomgått en utbildning i kulturell kompetens uppgav positiva effekter som lett till en ökad medvetenhet. Diskussion: Sjuksköterskan behöver bli medveten om de negativa konsekvenser som en bristande kommunikation och kulturella konflikter har för etablerandet av en vårdrelation till patienten. Enligt de dokument som styr professionen har sjuksköterskan en skyldighet att skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för en god omsorg om patienten. Okunskap och oförståelse leder till en diskriminering av patienten som inte hör hemma i vården. Utbildning i kulturell kompetens har bevisligen positiva effekter för att motverka generaliseringar och öka medvetenheten hos sjuksköterskan. För att främja en kulturell medvetenhet bör mer fokus läggas på dessa frågor i sjuksköterskans grund – och fortutbildning.
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Dalben, Tatiany Pertel Sabaini. "O Papel da Tradução na Formação Inicial de Professores de Língua Inglesa." Instituto de Letras, 2016. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/27001.
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Até recentemente, a tradução parece ter sido ignorada no campo da Linguística Aplicada (LA). Nas últimas décadas, porém, começaram a surgir alguns estudos e publicações que enfatizam a necessidade de repensá-la como atividade importante para o processo de ensino/aprendizagem de língua estrangeira (LE) (COOK, 2010). Mesmo assim, poucas pesquisas têm investigado o uso da tradução na formação inicial de professores de LE no Brasil. Dessa forma, este estudo em nível de doutorado tem como principal objetivo verificar e discutir a contribuição da tradução para a formação inicial de professores de língua inglesa (LI) em um curso de graduação em Letras, principalmente com relação ao desenvolvimento da competência linguístico-comunicativa (CLC), da competência comunicativa intercultural (CCI), do processo de conscientização sobre verdades e realidades e da responsabilidade ética do futuro docente. Ao buscar cumprir tal objetivo, esta pesquisa também está i) preenchendo a lacuna existente na literatura das áreas da LA e dos Estudos de Tradução; ii) promovendo discussão em torno da desconstrução de crenças e mitos sobre o uso da tradução em sala de aula de LI; e iii) problematizando a política de ensino com relação ao uso da tradução nesse contexto. Para tanto, esta pesquisa qualitativa, interpretativista, utiliza o método etnográfico para realizar um estudo ocorrido nos dois primeiros semestres do Curso de Letras/Inglês da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) em Ilhéus, Bahia, em 2014. As descrições das análises exibem os resultados coletados a partir de 4 (quatro) tipos de instrumentos: a) 2 (dois) questionários – 1 (um) para os 31 (trinta e um) professores de LI em formação (PLIF) e 2 (dois) para os 2 (dois) professores formadores (PF); b) 8 (oito) atividades de tradução realizadas pelos PLIF; c) registros etnográficos coletados durante a observação da aplicação de tais atividades em sala de aula; d) 4 (quatro) entrevistas semi-estruturadas – 2 (duas) para os 2 (dois) PF e 2 (duas) para os PLIF. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo, respaldo-me na perspectiva desconstrutivista (DERRIDA, 1967/1971, 1967/2011; ARROJO, 1986/2002, 1992/2003; OTTONI, 2005), através da qual se pode considerar a tradução uma prática de leitura, de interpretação, um processo produtor e transformador de significados que ocorre a partir de um jogo marcado pela ausência de um centro ou de uma ‘origem’, um movimento de suplementariedade do qual fazem parte aspectos diversos que compõem a escritura (écriture). As análises demonstraram que, através da tradução, os PLIF desenvolveram aspectos da CLC (ALMEIDA FILHO, 1993/2002, 2014), pois adquiriram conhecimento sobre a estrutura da LI e demonstraram saber usá-la para construir seus textos traduzidos. Além disso, os professores em formação desenvolveram habilidades, atitudes e conhecimentos que compõem a CCI (KRAMSCH, 1993; BYRAM, 1989, 1997; BYRAM et al., 2002), como, por exemplo, a elaboração de conhecimentos plurais sobre línguas, culturas e sociedades; a superação de preconceitos linguísticos e culturais; a abertura para aceitação das diferenças; a ampliação dos conceitos de língua e cultura, dentre outros. Por fim, as análises também indicaram que a prática da tradução favoreceu o processo de conscientização sobre verdades e realidades (FREIRE, 1979, 2002) dos PLIF, os quais, ao fim e ao cabo, se revelaram sujeitos crítico-reflexivos, curiosos e questionadores das verdades absolutas, além de terem desenvolvido a percepção sobre a sua responsabilidade ética (FREIRE, 1996/2013) que deve permear sua prática educativo-crítica.<br>ABSTRACT
Until recently, translation seems to have been ignored in the field of Applied Linguistics (AL). However, in the last decades, it has become a theme of some researches and publications which claim it must be ‘reintroduced’ within the foreign language (FL) teaching classroom (COOK, 2010). All the same, little investigation has yet been done on the implications of its use for undergraduate English language (EL) students pursuing their certification in Brazil. In this line of thought, this PhD research proposes to verify and discuss the contribution of translation as a practice for the professional preparation of pre-service EL teachers in the undergraduate course of Letras, especially concerning the development of the linguistic-communicative competence (LCC), the intercultural communicative competence (ICC), the process of consciousness about truths and realities and ethical responsibility. In pursuit of such an objective, this work also: i) bridges the gap in the literature in the areas of AL and Translation Studies; ii) promotes discussions on the deconstruction of beliefs and myths about the use of translation within the FL classroom; and iii) problematizes teaching politics regarding the use of translation in this context. Therefore, this qualitative, interpretative research used ethnographic methods to carry out a study in the first and second semesters of an undergraduate group of EL students in the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC) in Ilhéus, Bahia, in 2014. Through the analysis, I searched to understand and describe the results collected from 4 (four) types of instruments: a) 2 (two) questionnaires – 1 (one) for the 31 (thirty) students and another for the 2 (two) professors); b) 8 (eight) translation and reflective activities undertaken by the students in the classroom; c) ethnographic notes collected from class observations; d) and 4 (four) semi-structured interviews – 2 (two) for the 2 (two) professors and 2 (two) for the students. As for the interpretation of data and the development of the study, I relied on the deconstructive perspective (DERRIDA, 1967/1971, 1967/2011; ARROJO, 1986/2002, 1992/2003; OTTONI, 2005), which views translation as a reading and interpretative practice, a process of meanings production and transformation, that occurs as a play within language characterized by the absence of a center or origin, a move of supplementarity formed by various aspects that compose the writing (écriture). The results show that through the use of translation in EL classrooms, Letras undergraduate students are able to develop aspects of the LCC (ALMEIDA FILHO, 1993/2002, 2014), once they acquired knowledge about the structure of the EL and demonstrated to know how to use it to communicate through their translated texts. Moreover, the results also indicated that through the practice of translation, these students could develop ICC abilities, attitudes and knowledge (KRAMSCH, 1993; BYRAM, 1989, 1997; BYRAM et al., 2002), such as plural knowledge about languages, cultures and societies; overcoming linguistic and cultural prejudice; improvement of the concepts of language and culture, among others. Finally, the analysis also showed that translation can favor the process of consciousness about truths, realities and practices (FREIRE, 1979, 2002), since the undergraduate EL students became more curious and inquisitive about pre-established and absolute truths. It has promoted a critical-reflexive attitude towards various aspects and contributed to the development of the perception of their ethical responsibility (FREIRE, 1979, 2002, 1996/2013) and, as such, pervade their critical practice in education.
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Zaragoza, Marlene, and Monica Elizabeth Jacobo. "LINGUISTIC COMPETENCY OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS WORKING IN HISPANIC COMMUNITIES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/504.
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The Hispanic/Latino population in Southern California is quickly becoming the majority in many communities. As a result, social work professionals need training and education in cultural and linguistic skills to work effectively with this diverse population. The purpose of this study was to examine the linguistic competency and comfort of social work students when working with Spanish-speaking clients who speak little to no English. The study used a quantitative, self-administered, online survey to assess 106 social work students’ Spanish language abilities, comfort working with Spanish-speaking clients, and desires to improve their Spanish language skills. Results indicated that students who identified as native Spanish-speakers with and without formal language education, scored better on the objective assessment of Spanish-language skills and reported feeling more comfortable working with Spanish-speaking clients. Students with little to no Spanish-speaking ability scored very low on the language quiz, and yet reported feeling very comfortable working with Spanish-speaking clients. The majority of participants expressed interest in Spanish-language social work curriculum within the CSUSB School of Social Work. The findings of this study suggest that social work students would benefit to receive Spanish social work courses as part of the social work curricula.
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Richardson, Diane Fern, and Diane Fern Richardson. "Toward a Pedagogy of Ambiguity: Incorporating and Assessing Ambiguity in a Multiliteracies-Based Foreign Language Classroom." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621855.
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One of the major challenges that persists in postsecondary foreign language (FL) education in the US today is how to implement a more integrated approach to language and literature instruction, that is, one that fosters critical awareness on multiple levels and prepares learners to be globally-connected and engaged citizens (MLA, 2007; Swaffar & Urlaub, 2014). Major contributions for achieving these goals have come from an array of pedagogical approaches that share in common their focus on language as a resource for making socially and symbolically rich meanings that do more than convey facts or express objectives. These include those designated as multiliteracies and genre-based approaches, as well as those that promote intercultural, symbolic and literary competencies as integral to the language learning experience. All of these frameworks acknowledge to some extent the fact that ambiguity-understood here as the multiplicity, indeterminacy, or destabilization of meaning-characterizes language itself and thus also our day-to-day and global communication, as well as the experience and process of FL learning. This dissertation, based on a qualitative classroom-based research study, considers how ambiguity can more be comprehensively integrated into FL learning and in particular into text-oriented teaching practices. The approach taken was a pedagogy that embraces ambiguity by providing learners and educators with strategies for navigating the moments of indeterminacy, uncertainty, and doubt that they will inevitably encounter in and out of the FL classroom. The study, set in an intermediate German language and culture course at a large public university, investigates 1) how to incorporate and assess moments of ambiguity more comprehensively across the curriculum and 2) how learners responded to various encounters with ambiguity, including ambiguity of genre, perspective, and silence. Data analysis revealed that purposeful integration of induced ambiguity can facilitate more comfort with those three dimensions and that it complements the principles of a multiliteracies-based FL pedagogy.
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Pereira, Gilvan Elias. "O aluno dos anos finais do ensino fundamental (da escola pública) com grande defasagem em relação às habilidades para a leitura e a escrita: investigando sujeitos e contextos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14226.
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Previous issue date: 2011-12-14<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Based on a perspective that assumes a direct relationship between linguistic competence and success or failure at school, this research turns to the student in situation of failure and that has in low language competence (not the ability to make use of language in real situations of life, but to meet the demands required by the school) a central difficulty impeding academic success. To meet such a student in order to better understand what is behind the "alarming" statistics of school failure, we took into account the weight that language has when it comes to school and school learning and, therefore, the resulting need to consider the complexity of the relationship between school learning (in relation to knowledge) an language. It has been assumed that each student excluded or in situations of failure, has his own history is strongly marked, among other things, by the barriers that the low level of language proficiency has imposed. Results of the research (case study) conducted among students in situation of failure confirmed, therefore, that the stigma of student who does not learn, who cannot read and write with the skills required by the school but even so remains there on the edge of her "illiteracy" represents a small part of the qualitative picture of the excluding and selective school model still very present in Brazilian society and that should not be understood only by the logic of statistics or theories based on the exclusive assumption of social modeling<br>Com base em uma perspectiva que supõe a relação direta entre competência linguística e sucesso ou insucesso escolar, esta pesquisa volta-se para o aluno em situação de fracasso e que tem na baixa competência linguística (não a capacidade para fazer uso da língua em situações reais de vida, mas para responder às exigências requeridas pela escola) uma dificuldade central impeditiva do sucesso escolar. Para conhecer tal aluno com o intuito de compreender melhor o que está por trás das alarmantes estatísticas do fracasso escolar, levou-se em consideração o peso que a linguagem tem quando se trata de escola e de aprendizagem escolar e, portanto, a consequente necessidade de se ponderar a complexidade da relação entre escola, aprendizagem (relação com o saber) e linguagem. Considerou-se que cada aluno excluído ou em situação de fracasso possui sua história e que cada história dessas é marcada fortemente, entre outras coisas, pelas barreiras que o baixo nível de competência linguística impõe. Os resultados da pesquisa (estudo de caso) realizada entre alunos em situação de fracasso confirmaram, pois, que o estigma do aluno que não aprende, que não consegue ler e escrever com as competências requeridas pela escola, mas que ainda assim mantém-se nela à beira do analfabetismo , é um pouco do retrato qualitativo do modelo de escola excludente e seletiva ainda muito presente na sociedade brasileira e que não deve ser compreendida apenas pela lógica da estatística ou das teorias embasadas no pressuposto exclusivo da modelagem social
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McLeod, Sharynne, Sarah Verdon, and Caroline Bowen. "International Aspirations for Speech-Language Pathologists’ Practice with Multilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Development of a Position Paper." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1997.
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A major challenge for the speech-language pathology profession in many cultures is to address the mismatch between the “linguistic homogeneity of the speech-language pathology profession and the linguistic diversity of its clientele” (Caesar & Kohler, 2007, p. 198). This paper outlines the development of the Multilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Position Paper created to guide speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) facilitation of multilingual children's speech. An international expert panel was assembled comprising 57 researchers (SLPs, linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists) with knowledge about multilingual children's speech, or children with speech sound disorders. Combined, they had worked in 33 countries and used 26 languages in professional practice. Fourteen panel members met for a one-day workshop to identify key points for inclusion in the position paper. Subsequently, 42 additional panel members participated online to contribute to drafts of the position paper. A thematic analysis was undertaken of the major areas of discussion using two data sources: (a) face-to-face workshop transcript (133 pages) and (b) online discussion artifacts (104 pages). Finally, a moderator with international expertise in working with children with speech sound disorders facilitated the incorporation of the panel's recommendations. The following themes were identified: definitions, scope, framework, evidence, challenges, practices, and consideration of a multilingual audience. The resulting position paper contains guidelines for providing services to multilingual children with speech sound disorders (http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/position-paper). The paper is structured using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children and Youth Version (World Health Organization, 2007) and incorporates recommendations for (a) children and families, (b) SLPs’ assessment and intervention, (c) SLPs’ professional practice, and (d) SLPs’ collaboration with other professionals. Learning outcomes: Readers will 1. recognize that multilingual children with speech sound disorders have both similar and different needs to monolingual children when working with speech-language pathologists. 2. Describe the challenges for speech-language pathologists who work with multilingual children. 3. Recall the importance of cultural competence for speech-language pathologists. 4. Identify methods for international collaboration and consultation. 5. Recognize the importance of engaging with families and people within their local communities for supporting multilingual children in context.
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Donaldson, Bryan. "Discourse competence in near-native speakers of French." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3319913.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French & Italian Studies, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3129. Advisers: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig; Laurent Dekydtspotter.
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Lainez, Gloria. "Assessing Cultural and Linguistic Competencies in Doctoral Clinical Psychology Students." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13812228.
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<p>With an increase of Spanish-speakers residing in the United States, there is an increase in the need for Spanish-speaking mental health providers. Psychologists have to undergo years of education and extensive training in order to get licensed to provide services. However, little is known about the education and training of psychologists who are bilingual Spanish-English speakers providing mental health services to monolingual Spanish-speaking clients. This qualitative study gathered feedback via phone interviews from seven doctoral level psychology students who identified as bilingual Spanish-English. Feedback gathered was on the Spanish Language Assessment measure created by Dr. Rogelio Serrano in the hope of modifying the measure for future use. In addition, feedback was gathered on each participant?s experience in graduate school as it relates to preparedness for working with the Spanish-speaking population, suggestions for improving education and training in this area, and their understanding of cultural and linguistic competence. A thematic analysis outlined themes in participant responses. The findings will help shed light on the assessment for linguistic and cultural competence in bilingual Spanish-English clinicians, in addition to exploring ways to improve clinical graduate training for those working with Spanish-speaking populations.
Keywords: bilingual, assessment, evaluation, training, cultural competence, linguistic competence, graduate training
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Anecleto, Úrsula Cunha. "Ação linguístico-comunicativa e a interação na esfera pública comunicacional." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8624.
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Previous issue date: 2016-03-22<br>The research investigates theoretical basis to support restructuring strategies of linguistic and communicative actions and interaction processes in the public communication in higher education. Research anchored in the Communicative Action Theory of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, and the philosophy of language, the linguist Mikhail Bakhtin where the foundations of communicative rationality in communicative action theory and the foundations of the theory of enunciation were studied. He started from the assumption that higher education is the privileged much space to trigger discursive and communicative actions whose pragmatic rationality facilitates consensus-building between speakers and listeners in search of consensus. The thesis substantiates the fact that the university, as fundamental communicational public sphere to society, constitutes a privileged locus for the formation of language subjects, interacting from linguistic and communicative actions, which take into account the relationship Pragmatic Language and Communicative speeches. The methodology used for analysis of selected works was the Hermeneutics. one basic categories framework of the works of both authors who guided exploration of the basic concepts and their co-relations was produced. The study allowed for the interpretation, establish correlations anchored in the understanding of how language-action contributes to increasing the capacity of understanding linguistically communicable way. The university was becoming known as a communicational public sphere important in the context of the network society, to constitute adequate space for interaction between the various social actors that is, free and democratic manner, in order to generate the agreement between them , always from the best argument. To build the theoretical, approach the study was defined as methodological approach to hermeneutics, as it was considered that this approach allows the construction of a critical reflection, anchored in language action. It became clear in the study that the educational subjects in higher education, seeking to develop the ability to understand linguistically communicable way. The analyzes from the categorical framework facilitated dialogue between the two authors with an emphasis on understanding of speech acts, language, concepts of language and communicative competence. The results show that the language in the network society takes on a dimension that requires complex analysis for his understanding, once they emerge broadly new spaces for debates, socialization skills, and consequently the need to transform recurrently information into knowledge. New forms of communication, require the subject to expand its capacity through linguistic and communicative actions, test validity claims about the world and create spaces of dialogue, negotiation and consensus. The study points out forcefully that the language and communicative actions and contribute to the formation of speech acts of ideas, play an important role in the learning process developed in higher education institutions. These actions constitute important mechanisms in the formation of the subject discursively emancipated, free to interact in the public sphere communication from ethical and moral standards, strengthening discursive-rational-dialogical actions.<br>A pesquisa investiga bases teóricas para fundamentar estratégias de reestruturação das ações linguístico-comunicativas e processos de interação na esfera pública comunicacional no Ensino Superior. A investigação ancorou-se na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo do filósofo alemão Jürgen Habermas, e na Filosofia da Linguagem, do linguista Mikhail Bakhtin a partir das quais foram estudadas as bases da racionalidade comunicativa na teoria de Ação comunicativa e os fundamentos da teoria da enunciação. Partiu-se do pressuposto de que o Ensino Superior é o espaço privilegiado para desencadear ações discursivas e comunicativas cuja racionalidade pragmática facilite a formação de consensos entre falantes e ouvintes em busca de consensos. A tese fundamenta a constatação de que a universidade, enquanto esfera pública comunicacional fundamental para a sociedade, constitui-se em lócus privilegiado para a formação de sujeitos de linguagem, que interagem entre si a partir de ações linguísticas e comunicativas, que levam em conta a relação Pragmática Linguística e Comunicativa dos discursos. A metodologia utilizada para análise das obras escolhidas foi a Hermenêutica. Foi produzida um quadro de categorias basilares das obras de ambos os autores que guiou a exploração dos conceitos básicos e suas co-relações. O Estudo permitiu, pela interpretação, estabelecer correlações ancoradas na compreensão de como a linguagem-ação contribui para a ampliação da capacidade de compreensão de sentidos linguisticamente comunicáveis. A universidade foi tematizada como uma esfera pública comunicacional importante no contexto da sociedade em rede, por se constituir em um espaço adequado para a interação entre os diversos atores sociais que a constitui, de forma livre e democrática, com vistas a gerar o acordo entre eles, sempre a partir do melhor argumento. Para construir a abordagem de cunho teórico do estudo, foi definido como aporte metodológico a Hermenêutica, por se considerar, que essa abordagem permite a construção de uma reflexão crítica, ancorada na linguagem-ação. Foi possível evidenciar pelo estudo que os sujeitos educativos, no Ensino Superior, procuram desenvolver a capacidade de compreensão de sentidos linguisticamente comunicáveis. As análises realizadas a partir do quadro categorial propiciaram diálogos entre os dois autores com ênfase na compreensão dos atos de fala, concepções de língua-linguagem e competência comunicativa. Os resultados apontam que a linguagem na sociedade em rede assume uma dimensão que requer análises complexas para sua compreensão, uma vez que emergem de forma ampla novos espaços de debates, socialização de conhecimentos e, consequentemente, a necessidade de transformar de forma recorrente informações em conhecimento. Novas formas de comunicação exigem dos sujeitos a ampliação de sua capacidade de, através de ações linguístico-comunicativas, testarem pretensões de validez sobre o mundo e criarem espaços de diálogos, negociações e consensos. O estudo aponta de forma contundente que as ações linguísticas e comunicativas, além de contribuírem para formação de atos ideias de fala, desempenham um papel importante no processo de aprendizagem desenvolvido nas instituições de Ensino Superior. Essas ações se constituem em importantes mecanismos na formação do sujeito emancipado discursivamente, livre para interagir na esfera pública comunicacional a partir de padrões éticos e morais, fortalecendo ações discursivo-racional-dialógicas.
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Chapman, Glen L. "Acceptance of International Teaching Assistants: Linguistic Competency Fomenting the Environment for Microaggressions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511798927132087.
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Atchley, Cindy J. "Exploring Linguistic Challenges and Cultural Competency Development in a Small Multinational Corporation." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2518.
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In 2016's global business landscape, the increase in workers moving across borders to find employment accentuates the language and cultural challenges for both employees and organizations. Employees working in a multinational environment need to have an understanding of language and culture to handle the complex nature of professional work in a multinational corporation (MNC). The purpose of this study was to explore what communication competencies employees in a small MNC needed to communicate across multicultural environments in the workplace. A dialectic approach of intercultural communication was used to explore these needs in one small MNC located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using English as the corporate language. Data were collected from 9 employees of one data security firm using semistructured interviewing, the data was then coded into NVivo. Using interpretative phenomenology analysis, the themes of understanding, cultural sensitivity, pace, and fitting in emerged. Results of the study indicated a disconnect in the cultural mentality of Americanness versus Arabness in the business environment where societal factors and national identity reflected in how the employees think and act in the workplace. Lack of cultural knowledge in an MNC can impact the financial health of an organization in lost opportunities, reduced productivity, and long-term relationship damage with clients and partners. The results of this study could contribute to positive social change by providing small MNCs with the insight to enhance intercultural communication and intercultural awareness among employees in building a global workforce.