Graphical interface for reading and writing in teacher education

ABSTRACT From a broader project, this paper presents a synthesis of theoretical reflections and principles of basic practical procedures for teacher training, focusing on teaching and learning of reading and writing in High School in Brazil. We present a brief history of the academic production, after the redemocratization of the years 1980/90 and we comment some topics proposed by the public policies. We emphasize writing specificities as a technological instrument, decisive for reading and producing texts. Finally, we present two reading practices based on methodological procedures for the graphic treatment of texts. The goal is to put the reader in a position to understand the processes of text construction in the position of authorship. Such practices mobilize "game" senses that affect the reader in the relations of language with writing as a graphic interface and analytical instrument.   Keywords: Reading, Writing; High school.

Teaching-learning process and teaching methodology in Portuguese for the deaf under the perspective of inclusive education

For years, the discrepancies faced by deaf students in the teaching of the Portuguese language were due to the lack of hearing. Recently, these failures have been attributed to the use of inadequate teaching methodologies and to the lack of communication through Libras between the deaf and the hearers. This article aims at reporting a research study that analyzed the teaching-learning processes from the point of view of a deaf elementary student in Viçosa/MG. The project was primarily developed by a qualitative approach, by utilizing the bibliographical review, the participant observation and the field diary. Results showed the communicative interactions were restrained, since teachers and hearing students were not fluent in Libras, and there was no interpreter available. The methodology was mostly expositive, with a predominance of oral resources. The findings demonstrated the challenges faced by the deaf students are numerous, since the school does not offer the structure to meet their needs, and the teachers do not have the required education to work in an inclusive school environment. This article reports some methodological proposals for the teaching of Portuguese that were elaborated and applied within an inclusive context, all following PCN orientations. It reinforces the need to invest in teacher training to meet the demands of inclusive education to improve the quality of the classes offered to the deaf in regards to the teaching-learning process for Portuguese.

BELIEFS ABOUT ENGLISH LEARNING AND TEACHING IN A TECHNICAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF PONTA PORÃ/MS

Abstract: This study is part of my master research, which aimed to investigate the beliefs about  English learning and teaching of students entering to a High School Course integrated to Computer Technician at a Federal High School in the city Ponta Pora / MS , located at the  border  with Paraguay . In the context , great part of the students coming from public schools in the region  had not studied English as a foreign language in elementary school , once it is located  in a region of the border with Paraguay , it offers only Spanish as a foreign language. The interest for this research came up as of conflicting situations between the teacher way of teaching and students ways of learning, especially of those who had not studied English in elementary school. Thus we tried to study the beliefs of these students, analyzing how they process in that context in order to promote reflection of the teacher  to perform actions of intervention in order to reduce the mismatches between the ways of teaching and the ways that the students believe to be the right to learn. Keywords: Beliefs; English Teaching and Learning; Context

LINGUISTICS AND TEACHING: PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ TRAINING

This paper aims at investigating how and which theoretical aspects of linguistics are effective for implementing a Letters course directed across the educations of Portuguese language teachers. This study is anchored to a theoretical-methodological perspective of the French discourse analysis which dialogues with the History of Linguistic Ideas. Our analysis is carried out through a documental investigation of a corpus of analysis containing accounts on the Letters course, specifically at UNOCHAPECÓ-SC.

Reading and writing at the university in literacy project context - what really chance?

Regarding reading and writing practice, Higher Education context is one privileged setting for text study in order to provide knowledge acquisition and production for students. It is also recognizable that texts vary linguistically depending on the purpose and context of production which leads to academic literacy notion. In such context, courses are developed aiming to prepare students to master texts and practices in order to achieve academic success. Text Reading and Production I Course is an example of a course which has been introduced in the university programs. The paper aims to analyze the pedagogical practice that takes such projects as leading planning for reading and writing education at the university. It is part of a research carried out by the researcher who is a professor of Text Reading and Production I Course of a university center placed in the Taquari Valley/RS. The present essay aims to analyze texts the students read and wrote in the mentioned project. It is understood that (KLEIMAN, 2000, P. 238) literacy projects represent activities that result from real interest in students’ life and the implementation involves reading and writing as social practice. Data were collected from a group of students enrolled in the Text Reading and Production I Course during 2013/B term. One of the eleven projects developed by the students and the importance as literacy practices for reading and writing education at the university are analyzed.

THE DAILY EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING OF READING IN THE LIBRARY E. E. TANCREDO NEVES: AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DOURADOS - MS

This article is the work part of the research "Representations of literary readings built from the history and memory in the libraries of the school community in Golden-MS." We analyzed the documentation of reading projects that fostered the creation and activities of the library, as the practices of teaching reading in the daily interface with the formation of the readers in their respective school sponsor. The projects were analyzed training reading "Project Reading Elementary Education 1-5 º Ano" and "Teaching the World to Read", developed by the school library EE Tancredo Neve of state schools of Golden-MS. We conducted research also stocks the conditions of libraries and reading modes they oportunizaram through access to the literary estate and from the social practices of reading encouragement fostered between the library and classrooms. A literary collection needs to be added to the mediation practices reading the contribution of an effective training readers in school communities through the presence and role of the school library.

ALPHABETIZATION AND / OR LITERACY: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING

The study proposed in this paper aims to present a review and theoretical reflection on the concepts of alphabetization and literacy. Whereas the term literacy emerged in Brazil in the 80s, we intend to investigate how it has been used in Brazilian education and reflexes which provoked its use in school pedagogical practices. Used as theoretical studies such as Kleiman (1995), Smith (2000, 2004), Matencio (1994, 2004), Tfouni (1995) and Rojo (2004). From the references cited crave draw a parallel between the use of these two terms and how literacy can contribute to improving the quality of teaching and learning of reading and writing. Given that school practices seek to form proficient readers, not for us to choose between alphabetize or write the lyrics what becomes necessary is alphabetize from social practices.

READING CONCEPTIONS IN THE LANGUAGE TEACHING

In this paper, we reflect on the reading concepts, since it is relevant to explain them, because they guide the development of reading comprehension activities, the use of texts in class and the analysis of some issues presented in textbooks. For organizational purposes, we classify the different theoretical lines that discuss the reading from the unilateral and multilateral perspectives of the information processing, which integrate three broad approaches: ascending, descending and interactive. We do not see them as completely exclusive, but as complementary in many ways to characterize the aspects that underlie the reading and comprehension process, if we consider the text, the reader, the production and reading context of the text.

Dialogical-reflective meetings on reading practices and literacy (s) in a public school: report of research

This article is part of a research that investigated the practices of reading and literacy of students from a public school in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, and promote reflective meetings with teachers to know their views and practices regarding the teaching and learning of reading, searching contribute to the critical reflection on these practices. Thus, the proposed work was guided by reading theories and critical literacy, combined with the Bakhtin’s language theory and Vygotsky’s learning theory and human development. The data revealed that students participate in a variety of literacy practices  out of school contexts, however the context of school literacy uncovers centralization of activities in traditional tasks in school, especially copy of texts and activities of the blackboard. In the first meetings with the teachers, their perceptions about these practices were marked by uncertainty, not understanding what to do with some school problems. As the meetings were going on, the discourses could reveal critical reflection moments.