Currículo e saberes culturais das comunidades dos discentes ribeirinhos do curso de pedagogia das águas de Abaetetuba-Pará

Esta pesquisa tem como foco de estudo, o Currículo e a Formação de Professores ribeirinhos da Amazônia Paraense, analisou a articulação entre o Currículo do Curso de Pedagogia das Águas e os Saberes Culturais das comunidades dos discentes ribeirinhos do Município de Abaetetuba no Estado do Pará. Partiu-se da identificação de aspectos significativos do universo cultural ribeirinho das ilhas de Abaetetuba e da análise da maneira como os saberes culturais desses sujeitos foram tratados no Projeto Político Pedagógico e no Currículo do Curso de Pedagogia das Águas. Destaca-se que esse curso é vinculado ao Programa Nacional de Educação na Reforma Agrária e atendeu, exclusivamente, ribeirinhos assentados. A importância de se pesquisar tal temática, se justifica pela necessidade de se refletir acerca do currículo para a formação de professores do/no/e para o campo, do fortalecimento do protagonismo dos sujeitos e do reconhecimento da multiculturalidade amazônica e de suas especificidades geográficas, econômicas, sociais e ambientais, que pouco ou raramente são consideradas no espaço educativo. Para exploração do objeto de estudo optou-se por uma metodologia de abordagem qualitativa, buscando o apoio na exploração de bibliografias e documentos, na aplicação de instrumentos de pesquisa (como questionário e entrevista), e na sistematização, organização e análise dos dados e informações coletadas. Os resultados da pesquisa apontaram: os saberes culturais das comunidades ribeirinhas se fizeram presentes no currículo, de forma efetiva, no núcleo eletivo do curso; por meio das práticas dos professores, eles possuem aproximação/afinação, reconhecimento e/ou sensibilidade para com a vida dos povos ribeirinhos; assim como por meio das atividades extracurriculares em que evidenciaram e discutiram sobre a vida das populações do campo, e em especial, das comunidades ribeirinhas.

Das orientações curriculares de língua estrangeira da educação básica do Estado de São Paulo para as atividades nos cadernos de inglês: uma proposta de avaliação

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

The book is still on the table: uma análise do uso do livro didático de inglês na escola pública paulista

Pós-graduação em Planejamento e Análise de Políticas Públicas - FCHS

A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English

[ES] This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most outstanding cognitive implications of this fact. The corpus used in this research contains 50 research papers written by native English speakers and 50 scientific papers written by Spanish researchers who use English to communicate internationally. As epistemic modals are used to indicate the possibility of some piece of knowledge, this paper focuses on epistemic modal verbs in order to detect if native speakers of English and non-native speakers of English communicate modality in the same way, or if there are differences in frequency and use. The results obtained in this analysis indicated that there are differences in the frequency of use of epistemic expressions, even if the intention of the writers is the same.

Language, Thought, Relativism, Nationalism: An Interdisciplinary Study

Ms. Neumer and her team began their project with a critical analysis of the various theories of the relationship between language and thought. Their aim was to develop a theoretical position concerning the issue of universalism versus relativism. This issue is closely bound up with one of the main questions of the history of East and Central Europe, namely, the question of the nation, and the possibility of mutual understanding between national cultures. The team attempted to avoid falling into an all-too-common trap, that of allowing a political perspective to obscure the central theoretical issues. In a project whose outcome totalled over 1000 pages of manuscript in German, English and Hungarian, they touched on cognitive psychological, linguistic, semiotic, socio-semiotic, and other such themes. Their experience has convinced them of the fruitful heuristic possibilities of the interaction of scientific and philosophical approaches in this area of research. A preliminary analysis of the history of philosophy and inquiries into conceptual fields revealed that, in order to reach strong relativist conclusions concerning the unity of thought and language, it is required to take as a point of departure the widest possible sense of these concepts. But in fact, such an option ends up refuting itself: pursuing the premises to their final conclusion one arrives at the restriction of relativism. The team outlined a theory of the understanding of the Other which, borrowing from analytical as well as continental-hermeneutic trends, does not underestimate, on the one hand, the difficulties of understanding between various forms of life, cultures, and languages, but, on the other hand, can provide an alternative solution to the theory of incommensurabiltiy. Within the boundary of this problematic the team studied the problems of translatability, the acquisition of the mother and foreign languages, and natural or cultural determinacy of kind terms. The team regards its most original contribution to be the association of the problem of relativism-universalism and the language-thought relation with contemporary investigations into the question of orality, literacy, and secondary orality. Their conclusion was that, although certain connections can be revealed both between forms of communication and the thesis of the unity of language and thought, and between periods in the history of communication and the predominance of relativistic or universalistic tendencies, forms of communication do not unequivocally determine the answers to these questions.

The First Child In A Chinese Family Who Could Read Prior To Entry Into Elementary School: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study

ABSTRACT This study is an account of the literacy-related human environment a Chinese girl experienced as the first person in the history of her family who was able to read prior to entry into elementary school. Temporally speaking, the study spanned more than a decade from the initial, tentative research question to the formal, primary research question. Spatially speaking, it crossed three cultures: the Chinese, Korean, and American cultures. The study was inspired by the Zero Project in China, known as the "Project of Quality Education and Implementation for Children Aged Zero (fetus) to Six." The significance of the content issue in a child's literacy curriculum was explored in an interdisciplinary way. Case study served as a holistic research approach and provided the researcher with free temporal and spatial distance to pursue the indefinably multi-dimensional intricacies of a child's early literacy acquisition among generations in the family. Interpretation of the case was based on the relevant concepts within the scope of the researcher's knowledge of Chinese culture. Major findings revealed that the child's literacy acquisition was inseparably related to her parents' background as well as their awareness of and attitudes towards literacy, and that the foundation of all this was the harmony of the family. Through the lens of generational attitudes towards literacy and especially the lens of the researcher's multicultural life experiences, this study contributes to the field of curriculum studies in general and early literacy curriculum in particular by stimulating people to reconsider what to read to children, besides how to read to them. It calls attention once again to the classic curriculum question, "What knowledge is of most worth?" as well as what is the most essential spiritual food human beings need besides physical needs. This study suggests that Chinese philosophy should be included in a child's early literacy curriculum in China and calls for dialogues on the content issue of curriculum to gain a deeper understanding of human nature so that humans might co-live peacefully with all beings in the universe.

When Spanish owns English words

The English language and the Internet, both separately and taken together, are nowadays well-acknowledged as powerful forces which influence and affect the lexico-grammatical characteristics of other languages world-wide. In fact, many authors like Crystal (2004) have pointed out the emergence of the so-called Netspeak, that is, the language used in the Net or World Wide Web; as Crystal himself (2004: 19) puts it, ‘a type of language displaying features that are unique to the Internet […] arising out of its character as a medium which is electronic, global and interactive’. This ‘language’, however, may be differently understood: either as an adaptation of the English language proper to internet requirements and purposes, or as a new and rapidly-changing and developing language as a result of a rapid evolution or adaptation to Internet requirements of almost all world languages, for whom English is a trendsetter. If the second and probably most plausible interpretation is adopted, there are three salient features of ‘Netspeak’: (a) the rapid expansion of all its new linguistic developments thanks to the Internet itself, which may lead to the generalization and widespread acceptance of new words, coinages, or meanings, hundreds of times faster than was the case with the printed media. As said above, (b) the visible influence of English, the most prevalent language on the Internet. Consequently, (c) this new language tends to reduce the ‘distance’ between English and other languages as well as the ignorance of the former by speakers of other languages, since the ‘Netspeak’ version of the latter adopts grammatical, syntactic and lexical features of English. Thus, linguistic differences may even disappear when code-switching and/or borrowing occurs, as whole fragments of English appear in other language contexts. As a consequence of the new situation, an ideal context appears for interlanguage or multilingual word formation to thrive: puns, blends, compounds and word creativity in general find in the web the ideal place to gain rapid acceptance world-wide, as a result of fashion, coincidence, or sheer merit of the new linguistic proposals.

How to write criterion-referenced tests for Spanish-English bilingual programs /

"The project reported herein was performed pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Hagadah ve-seder shel Pesaḥ = Form of service for the two first nights of the feast of Passover, with English translation.

In double columns; English and Hebrew in opposite columns.

Musical scenes to an English play called Alceste. [music] /

Original work composed in 1750 for a play by Tobias Smillett.

The quatrains of Omar Khayyām. The Persian test with an English verse translation.

English and Persian on opposite pages.

A vocabulary of the Pentateuch : containing all the words of the five books in their primitive forms, with an English translation ; ... /

English and Hebrew.

The Tooti nameh; or, Tales of a parrot, in the Persian language with an English translation.

English and persion on opposite pages, each text having its own paging (p. 9-170)

Fifth census of Canada 1911 = Cinquième recensement du Canada, 1911.

Added t.p. : cinquième recensement du Canada, 1911.

The census of Egypt taken in 1917 ...

English and Arabic.