Once upon a time : using stories in language classroom. 'Érase una vez : utilizando historias en la clase de idioma'.

El trabajo recoge una serie de narraciones y cuentos en lengua inglesa que sirve a los profesores como fuente para programar actividades con los alumnos (desde los niveles iniciales hasta los avanzados dentro de la educación secundaria). Las técnicas descritas en el libro se proponen mejorar la expresión oral, practicar gramática y sobre todo conocer el lenguaje coloquial. Los autores sugieren diferentes posibilidades de tratamiento de la narración como herramienta para desarrollar las habilidades de comprensión y expresión oral. A continuación hay una serie de actividades desarrolladas tomando como base una historia y sus posibilidades de explotación. También ofrece un repertorio de posibles historias para trabajar en el aula.

The new baby.

Pertenece a un amplio programa infantil de lectura que abarca distintos niveles de edad y, por tanto, de conocimientos. Se abordan las necesidades de lectura en los niños y la amplia variedad de habilidades que necesitan adquirir para su aprendizaje y, se destaca, también, la importancia de la narración en las historias y el orden recomendado para su lectura. Se cuentan los preparativos para la llegada de un bebé, primo de Wilf y Wilma.

New trainers : a story about Chip.

Pertenece a un amplio programa infantil de lectura que abarca distintos niveles de edad y, por tanto, de conocimientos. Se abordan las necesidades de lectura en los niños y la amplia variedad de habilidades que necesitan adquirir para su aprendizaje y, se destaca, también, la importancia de la narración en las historias. En el nivel dos aparece una frase en cada página, y los niños ya están familiarizados con los personajes y sus nombres.

A new classroom.

Nuevo material de apoyo didáctico para uso en sesiones de lectura guiada. Se basa en la idea de que mientras los niños pueden tener inicialmente dificultades en reconocer palabras separadas en una pagina, o en el aprendizaje de palabras fuera de contexto, si pueden realizar una narración en lenguaje natural de una sencilla historia. Para introducir destrezas específicas de lectura, el desarrollo de habilidades lingüísticas de comprensión, junto con el reconocimiento de palabras técnicas, de los alumnos de primaria. Contiene una historia sobre la instalación de un aula nueva, la visita que hacen los alumnos acompañados de sus profesoras y la gran sorpresa final. Las imágenes y el texto trabajados conjuntamente ayudan a los niños a predecir el significado de oraciones simples.

The new house.

Material de apoyo didáctico para usar en sesiones de lectura guiada, teniendo en cuenta las necesidades del aula y obtener el máximo rendimiento en la lectura con los niños. Para: hacer colecciones de palabras relacionadas con temas específicos, utilizar mayúsculas para los nombres propios, reunir información de las propias experiencias, utilizar fonológica, contextual y gramaticalmente el conocimiento para elaborar nuevas palabras. La historia cuenta la llegada de una camioneta para hacer la mudanza de la casa. Es mucho trabajo y los niños ayudan también. Cuando llegan a la casa nueva, también hay mucho trabajo que hacer.

Stories of ourselves : the University of Cambridge International Examinations anthology of stories in english.

Antología de relatos de escritores de diferentes países y culturas, como Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri y Annie Proulx. Su contenido se adapta al estudio del CIE, IGCSE y a los exámenes del nivel AS y nivel A de literatura en inglés.

The role of self-teaching in learning orthographic and semantic aspects of new words

This study explores how children learn the meaning (semantics) and spelling patterns (orthography) of novel words encountered in story context. English-speaking children (N = 88) aged 7 to 8 years read 8 stories and each story contained 1 novel word repeated 4 times. Semantic cues were provided by the story context such that children could infer the meaning of the word (specific context) or the category that the word belonged to (general context). Following story reading, posttests indicated that children showed reliable semantic and orthographic learning. Decoding was the strongest predictor of orthographic learning, indicating that self-teaching via phonological recoding was important for this aspect of word learning. In contrast, oral vocabulary emerged as the strongest predictor of semantic learning.

Once upon a time, there was a fabulous funambulist: What children learn about the “high-level” vocabulary they encounter while listening to stories

Previous research has shown that listening to stories supports vocabulary growth in preschool and school-aged children and that lexical entries for even very difficult or rare words can be established if these are defined when they are first introduced. However, little is known about the nature of the lexical representations children form for the words they encounter while listening to stories, or whether these are sufficiently robust to support the child’s own use of such ‘high-level’ vocabulary. This study explored these questions by administering multiple assessments of children’s knowledge about a set of newly-acquired vocabulary. Four- and 6-year-old children were introduced to nine difficult new words (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) through three exposures to a story read by their class teacher. The story included a definition of each new word at its first encounter. Learning of the target vocabulary was assessed by means of two tests of semantic understanding – a forced choice picture-selection task and a definition production task – and a grammaticality judgment task, which asked children to choose between a syntactically-appropriate and syntactically-inappropriate usage of the word. Children in both age groups selected the correct pictorial representation and provided an appropriate definition for the target words in all three word classes significantly more often than they did for a matched set of non-exposed control words. However, only the older group was able to identify the syntactically-appropriate sentence frames in the grammaticality judgment task. Further analyses elucidate some of the components of the lexical representations children lay down when they hear difficult new vocabulary in stories and how different tests of word knowledge might overlap in their assessment of these components.

Dancing with Mr. Penrose and other stories

Stories: Fallen Angel The Inheritance Schlog's Dance The New World Dancing With Mr. Penrose

Are all new market entry strategic dimensions equally relevant?: insights from some chilean experts?

This thesis looks into the strategic dimensions that Multi-National Companies (MNC) consider when they start the operation in a new country in Latin America and if all have the same weight or relevance when doing the strategic decisions as a guide to land onto a new country. Understanding the weight that MNCs gives to them can prompt to understand the reasons behind the success stories, the struggles - and even failures - that some companies had in the aforementioned region. The approach was via an initial analysis of the scholar bibliography in order to define three main dimensions in the models or frameworks that deal with the strategy used to land. After this, and through interviews, was found out how relevant are each of them for their companies, how they weight them and if there were other dimensions considered. The question that this thesis contributes to understand is if all new market strategic dimensions are equally relevant for a MNC when arriving to Latin America. The results show a predominance of the cultural aspect and in second place, the considered entry strategy (alliances, speed, size, etc.).

Seven stories: location based story-delivery system

Location aware content-based experiences have a substantial tradition in HCI, several projects over the last two decades have explored the association of digital media to specific locations or objects. However, a large portion of the literature has little focus on the creative side of designing of the experience and on the iterative process of user evaluations. In this thesis we present two iterations in the design and evaluation of a location based story delivery system (LBSDS), inspired by local folklore and oral storytelling in Madeira. We started by testing an already existing location based story platform, PlaceWear, with short multimedia clips that recounted local traditions and folktales, to this experience we called iLand. An initial evaluation of iLand, was conducted; we shadowed users during the experience and then they responded to a questionnaire. By analyzing the evaluation results we uncovered several issues that informed the redesign of the system itself as well as part of the story content. The outcome of this re design was the 7Stories experience. In the new experience we performed the integration of visual markers in the interface and the framing of the fragmented story content through the literary technique of the narrator. This was done aiming to improving the connection of the audience to the physical context where the experience is delivered. The 7Stories experience was evaluated following a similar methodology to the iLand evaluation but the user’s experience resulted considerably different; because of the same setting for the experience in both versions and the constancy of the most of the content across the two versions we were able to assess the specific effect of the new design and discuss its strengths and shortcomings. Although we did not run a formal and strict comparative test between the two evaluations, it is evident from the collected data how the specific design changes to our LBSDS influenced the user experience.

Structural change and productivity growth, 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities

Includes bibliography

Structural change and productivity growth 20 years later: old problems, new opportunities. Summary

Includes bibliography

A reescritura de Katherine Mansfield por Érico Veríssimo: análise descritiva da tradução para o português da obra Bliss and other stories

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