Variables que incideixen en el coneixement de català i castellà de l'alumnat estranger a Catalunya: un estudi amb alumnat de sisè de primària

El domini de la llengua escolar apareix en totes les polítiques educatives com el tema central a través del qual s’ha d’incidir per garantir la igualtat i la cohesió social, ja que l’èxit escolar passa per desenvolupar una bona competència en la llengua vehicular de l’ensenyament (OECD 2008). A Catalunya, tot i els esforços destinats, els resultats lingüístics de l’alumnat estranger continuen essent molt més baixos que els de l’alumnat nacional (Consell Superior d’Avaluació del Sistema Educatiu 2009). No obstant això, hi ha molt pocs estudis que hagin analitzat els factors que s’amaguen darrere dels resultats lingüístics de l’alumnat estranger. Amb aquest objectiu en ment, l’article presenta les dades d’una recerca que pretén aprofundir les variables que incideixen en el coneixement de català i castellà escrit de l’alumnat estranger escolaritzat en 57 escoles de primària repartides pel territori de Catalunya

Práctica educativa y adquisición de la lengua de la escuela

El trabajo que presentamos pretende establecer e implamentar criterios respecto la organización escolar y la práctica educativa para mejorar las competencias básicas del alumnado extranjero que participa en las aulas de Cataluña con una gran diversidad respecto el conocimiento de la lengua de la escuela. En concreto, buscamos profundizar y localizar los factores y elementos relevantes para la organización escolar y la práctica educativa en escuelas plurilingües con estas características

Algunes qüestions referides a l’aprenentatge lingüístic de la infància estrangera a Catalunya

L’article està organitzat en dues parts. A la primera, s’aborden algunes qüestions generals relacionades amb la integració i l’aprenentatge de llengües. A la segona, es discuteix la manera de fer possible l’aprenentatge de les llengües de l’escola a aquesta part de la infància, amb un èmfasi especial en el tractament de la seva pròpia llengua

Dialogue journal writing: a tool for critical reflection in the adult ESL learner

This study attempted to determine whether or not dialogue journal writing encouraged critical reflection in the adult ESL (English as a Second Language) learner. According to research in adult education and anecdotal evidence, the process ofdialogue journal writing can facilitate critical reflection in the adult learner. However, little research has been conducted to examine whether or not journal writing can facilitate critical reflection in the second language learner. As a result, ten low-intermediate level adult ESL students from Brock University's Intensive English Language Programme participated in a dialogue journal writing programme in their writing class. The participants wrote journal entries over a 10-week period, and were interviewed once throughout the process to determine their perceptions ofthe journal writing experience. They also were observed by the researcher throughout the journal writing sessions to establish whether any behaviours or intrusions might affect the participants' writing processes. After the content ofthe journals and the interviews, and the observations made by the researcher were analysed, it was confirmed that, for these participants, dialogue journal writing did not necessarily encourage critical reflection. Moreover, the participants' perceptions ofjournal writing were that it helped them to practise the syntax, vocabulary, and rhetorical patterns ofEnglish; nevertheless, it did not foster critical reflection or thinking.

Sentence combining and thinking : a study of adult ESL learners

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Brock University, 2003.

Identifying language needs of ESL students in a Canadian university based intensive English language program

This study investigated the needs of adult ESL learners intending to pursue higher education in Canada. Its chief purpose was to enable educators and administrators to design ESL programs that would prepare students to function at optimal levels in academic and social settings during their university studies. The study adopted a mixed research method that was predominantly qualitative in its orientation and narrative in its implementation. It focused on an Intensive English Language Program (IELP) offered at an Ontario university. Using a holistic approach, the study sought to represent the various perspectives of all the participants in the program: the students, the instructors, and the administrators. Analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from 17 students, 6 instructors, and 1 administrator in the IELP showed that to a large extent the academic needs ofESL learners in the IELP were generally not being met. Most notably, the study found that learners were not receiving sufficient training in speaking and listening skills, a factor that contributed to their sense of insecurity and lack of confidence in their ability to communicate successfully in academic and social settings. The study also revealed that the solutions to many of the problems it identified lay not in the classroom but in the way the ESL program was structured administratively. One major recommendation to come out of the study is that programs like the IELP should be restructured so as to give them greater flexibility in meeting individual needs. While the study labored under certain limitations and did not achieve all of its goals, it did succeed in creating awareness ofthe problems and in establishing a methodological approach that can serve as a framework within which future research may be conducted in this somewhat neglected area.

Accommodating College ESL Learner Communication Needs: Perceptions, Policies, and Practices

The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to determine how the Practical Nursing and Pharmacy Technician programs in one southern Ontario community college could more effectively accommodate ESL learners' communication needs. The literature review examined (a) linguistic issues, such as language testing and second-language learning theories, (b) organizational matters, such as ESL curriculum and teacher training, and (c) affective issues, such as motivation for second-language learning, learning styles, and the student-teacher relationship. I gathered perceptual data from the programs' administrators, faculty members, and ESL learners. Eleven participants took part in individual interviews or a focus group session. The results suggest that ESL learners need assistance with discipline-specific vocabulary and cultural nuances. College ESL learners' weak communicative competence, together with misleading acceptance standards for ESL learners and limited support available to faculty members and to students, decrease opportunities for successful completion of the programs. The results point to re-assessment of the college's admission policies and procedures, program evaluation practices that consider the needs of ESL learners, discipline-specific language support, and strategies to enhance the ESL student-teacher relationship. The study highlights theory relating to ESL learners' self-perception and engagement, as well as the importance of including the voice of college ESL learners in educational research. The results suggest that despite ESL learners' perseverance in completing their studies, power imbalances remain. The college has yet to implement organizational strategies such as discipline-specific communications and ESL courses and extended language support that could meet the communication needs of ESL learners in the two programs.

Lingüística contrastiva

En aquest article, s’hi justifica la importància de conèixer algunes de les propietats gramaticals de les llengües dels parlants que aprenen català i que són molt diferents de les que habitualment tenim més a prop. Aquest coneixement és bàsic per entendre moltes de les dificultats d’aquestes persones a l’hora d’aprendre el català i pot ajudar a elaborar materials didàctics més adequats i a plantejar les estratègies d’ensenyament més adients per a cada cas

Algunes qüestions referides a l’aprenentatge lingüístic de la infància estrangera a Catalunya

L’article està organitzat en dues parts. A la primera, s’aborden algunes qüestions generals relacionades amb la integració i l’aprenentatge de llengües. A la segona, es discuteix la manera de fer possible l’aprenentatge de les llengües de l’escola a aquesta part de la infància, amb un èmfasi especial en el tractament de la seva pròpia llengua

Planificación de la docencia en la implantación de materias en lengua extranjera: una experiencia pràctica

EL presente trabajo se centra en la enseñanza en inglés de una asignatura a los alumnos del Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas. Estos estudios son eminentemente prácticos y tienen por objeto formar profesionales capaces de dirigir y gestionar modernas organizaciones en entornos cambiantes. La selección de contenidos para la enseñanza en inglés de finanzas no puede hacerse de forma arbitraria, sino mediante el establecimiento de unos criterios que permitan configurar un corpus con el que conseguir los resultados que se pretenden, de acuerdo con los objetivos pedagógicos establecidos por el profesor y los intereses de los estudiantes. Para el diseño de la asignatura Financial Operations se llevó a cabo una adaptación tanto de la metodología pedagógica como de los contenidos con el fin de alcanzar el objetivo perseguido (adquirir una formación básica sobre el mundo de las finanzas) al mismo tiempo que adquirir unas competencias en el uso de un inglés para fines específicos, en este caso, el inglés financiero

Análisis traductológico de la obra paremiográfica de Charles Cahier, (francés-español)

This thesis contains a translatological analysis of the Spanish proverbs collected by Charles Cahier in Quelque six mille proverbes et aphorismes usuels empruntés à notre âge et aux siècles derniers. Proverbs and other sententious sayings are part of our day-to-day life, and are more or less intensely used according to cultures and their types of speech. They have always existed in every single civilisation. There is, indeed, no denying that the purpose of proverbs is to convey an old experience. They are quoted by major philosophers and writers of all times. As a result of the interest they have raised, books of proverbs have been published for many centuries in a high number of countries. Proverbs can be found everywhere, both in professional and personal settings, or in a conversation between friends. In France, these sayings are more commonly used in literature than in spoken language, whereas in Spain proverbs can be found at all levels of communication. In this regard, it is interesting to compare the translations of international works to detect a number of misunderstandings regarding the interpretation of paremiological elements. This is why translating proverbs is a genuine, complex issue. This thesis, which is aimed at Spanish and French speakers (including native and foreign speakers), has a double application (translatological and linguistic) and falls within the context of translatological and comparative paremiology...

Kitāb Mukālamāt ʻArabīyah : manuscript, [ca. 1783]

المقالة الأولى في حروف العربية ووضعهم في الكلام أول ذلك علىيد اليمين على جانب الشمال... :Incipit