L2 Learners
Mostrando 13-24 de 29 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Representações de violência reveladas por crianças, adolescentes e suas famílias em situação de risco social : histórias e caminhos de resiliência / Representations of violence revealed by children, adolescents and their families at social risk : stories of resilience and paths
The present research had investigated the representations of violence revealed by children, adolescents and their families in social risk. The study was conducted with children and adolescents sheltered at Chácara Meninos de 4 Pinheiros, a non-governmental organization, located in Mandirituba, metropolitan region of Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil, which houses
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 29/07/2011
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14. O uso de redes neurais auto-organizÃveis na anÃlise da transferÃncia de conhecimentos prosÃdico em aprendizes brasileirios de lÃngua inglesa / The use of self-organizing artificial neural networks for the analysis of prosodic knowledge in Brazilian learner of English
The objective of this dissertation was to investigate how the prosodic knowledge is organized in an early stage of L2 acquisition in Brazilian learners of English with the help of a connectionist neural network. The approach proposed in this research is first, to quantify the utterances of L2 learners in the form of LPC coefficients and other linguistic/phon
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 08/10/2010
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15. Desenvolvendo a autonomia pelas trilhas da motivação, autoestima identidade: uma experiência reflexiva
This thesis sought to operationalize Dörnyei &Ottós (1998) process model of motivation for L2 learning, updated by Dörnyei (2001), in order to verify its suitability for a learner`s development of autonomy. Data collection was conducted in four phases, based on the pre-actional, actional and post-actional phases suggested by the motivational model. In the
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 16/12/2009
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16. Estudo da expressão de eventos de transferência de posse na interlíngua de brasileiros aprendizes de inglês
Based on Construction Grammar theory (GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006) and on the Interlanguage Hypothesis (SELINKER, 1972), the present study has sought to investigate the acquisition of the English Ditransitive Construction by 62 native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, grouped according to their proficiency level (beginner, intermediate and advanced) in the English
Publicado em: 2009
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17. The adult student and his representations about knowing and learning: an investigation in an ESP, English for Specific Purposes, context / O aluno adulto e suas representações acerca do saber e aprender: uma investigação em um contexto de ensino de inglês para fins específicos
This research was originally planned to investigate about a learning strategy training project developed by a language institute that offers in company ESP courses to adults in operational areas of the tourism industry. The project aimed at helping students develop metacognition and self-regulation. The data gathered consisted of questionnaires answered by 6
Publicado em: 2009
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18. UM ESTUDO DESCRITIVO DO VOCATIVO EM LINGUAGEM ORAL PARA PORTUGUÊS L2 / A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON VOCATIVES IN ORAL LANGUAGE FOR PORTUGUESE L2
The aim of this study is to identify, describe and analyze the words and/or expressions in the position of vocatives, used by native speakers of Portuguese in daily situations, in its varied forms of interaction, in order to help foreign learners of Portuguese during their learning process regarding such terms. Based, basically, on concepts from Social Anthr
Publicado em: 2009
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19. A interlingua dos aprendizes brasileiros de lingua japonesa como le, com enfoque no uso das particulas Wa e Ga / The interlanguage of Brazilian learners of Japanese as a foreign language with focus on the use of particles Wa and Ga
Esta pesquisa envolve a análise da interlíngua referente ao uso real das partículas gramaticais wa e ga na produção de textos escritos pelos alunos de língua japonesa como LE. Elegeram-se essas partículas, pois se observou que a maioria dos alunos tinha dificuldades em utilizar corretamente a partícula wa, marcadora de tópico, trocando-a comumente p
Publicado em: 2009
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20. A INTERAÇÃO ENTRE OS CONHECIMENTOS IMPLÍCITO E EXPLÍCITO NA APRENDIZAGEM DA SEGUNDA LÍNGUA
One of the main questions towards the second language acquisition theories by the late learners is about how the process of language is done. Some researchers say that in one hand, the L1 learning is implicit, as in automatic, and on the other hand, L2 learning is characterized for being explicit and the learner develops their own strategies in order to solv
Publicado em: 2008
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21. ENGLISH INTERDENTAL FRICATIVE ACQUISITION: AN APPROACH BY CONSTRAINS. / AQUISICÃO DAS FRICATIVAS INTERDENTAIS DO INGLÊS: UMA ABORDAGEM VIA RESTRIÇÕES.
In this thesis English interdental fricative acquisition by Brazilians second language learners has been investigated. Data from oral productions of three students groups has been gathered. The first group is composed by sixth semester undergraduate students of UNIFRA English course. The second and third groups are composed by third and tenth semester studen
Publicado em: 2007
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22. O papel da percepção consciente de conectivos concessivos na produção escrita e na reformulação da interlíngua
The investigation described in this dissertation has shown the importance of dealing with the attention construct with adult learners, already English language teachers in public schools, who were attending a continuing education program. The quantitative design of the research made it possible for an experiment to be implemented, in which participants were
Publicado em: 2007
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23. THE ROLE OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: AN INVESTIGATION OF LEARNERS PEDAGOGIC ACTIONS AND BELIEFS IN AN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES CLASS / O PAPEL DA PRIMEIRA LÍNGUA NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DA ESCRITURA EM SEGUNDA LÍNGUA: UMA INVESTIGAÇÃO DAS AÇÕES PEDAGÓGICAS E CRENÇAS DE UM GRUPO DE APRENDIZES NA SALA DE INGLÊS PARA FINS ACADÊMICOS
Recent studies propose a facilitative role for L1 in the process of L2 learning (Upton e Thompson, 2001; Jarvis, 2001; Silva, 2003; Zuchelli, 2003), specifically in the process of L2 writing (Salies, 1995; Victori, 1999; Wen e Wang, 2002; Glopper, Stevenson e van Gelderen, 2003). The purpose of this work is to investigate the role of L1 in the development of
Publicado em: 2006
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24. O papel da atitude cultural de alunos brasileiros imersos em cursos de inglês como segunda língua nos Estados Unidos
There are many Brazilian student cultural exchange programs that promote immersion courses abroad. However, there is little information available on the importance of the cultural attitude of students learning a second language, immersed in a second culture. The purpose of this study was to see if second language (L2) students with positive cultural attitude
Publicado em: 2006