Navegando por Autor "BARROS, Silvia Helena Benchimol"

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Emergência de comportamentos autônomos na aprendizagem da língua estrangeira a partir da interface da consciência linguageira e da motivação
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-05-27) BARROS, Silvia Helena Benchimol; SILVA, Walkyria Alydia Grahl Passos Magno e; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6129530461830312
This research explores the intersection of the studies of Language Awareness and the emergence of autonomous behaviors influenced by motivational factors in learners of English as a Foreign Language. Considering the relevance of explicit instruction of complex input and of Language Awareness, I observed that by using these principles, the teacher will foster the emergence of behaviors that lead learners to improve the control over their own learning. This way, the current study aims at verifying the correlation between language awareness, autonomy and motivation as an underpinning aspect. The theoretical basis of this study lies essentially on the contributions of: David Little (2010), Flavell (1976), Gillan Donmall (1991), Hawkings (2001), Peter Garret; Carl James (1991), Phil Benson (2001), Rutherford (1987), Van Lier (1991). Along with the bibliographical investigation, an action research has been carried out in order to understand the process of input comprehension by the adult learner, formulate hypothesis, and respect the enhanced classroom dynamic context for the final purpose of promoting improved learning. The observation and data collection took place at a sixth level English language classroom from the Foreign Language Courses at Federal University of Pará. The data from interviews, questionnaires, observations and Focus on Form activities have demonstrated that when a complex linguistic input was presented, both oral and written productions were hindered and there was less participation in conversational activities. I have also observed that the Focus on Form activities, explicitness, and reflections carried out by the employment of metalanguage have taken students closer to the solution of their problems and motivated them to search for different learning alternatives. The data have been crossed for analysis of the implications of Language Awareness on autonomous behaviors and motivation allowing reflections and meaningful insights for the solution of problems emerged in the unpredictable classroom context.
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A teshuvá em cabelos de fogo de Marcos Serruya: o Shaday herdado e o retorno á cultura judaica na Amazônia paraense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2017-05) SILVA, Alessandra Fabrícia Conde da; BARROS, Silvia Helena Benchimol
The novel shows the saga of Ana Julia, Polish Jewish girl deceived and forced into prostitution in the Amazon. Ionathan searches in the past history of Ana, his great-grandmother, any document connecting her to the Jewish culture in the hope of proving himself a Jew. Prostitution will keep her distanced from the Sephardic Jewish community, but Ionathan, conscious of his origins, and holding the inherited Shadai, searches for his and Ana’s teshuvah, as in atonement. The book shows signs of deletion and cultural hybridity experienced by Jews in the Amazon, since the first immigration. Escaped from the ethno-religious persecution in the Iberian Peninsula, many Jews eradicated in Morocco, immigrating to Brazil, afterwards. The memory of a Lusitanian past gained strength and fervour fostered by the Jewish Sephardic imaginary. The sense of being Jewish sought by Ionathan reflects what many ancestors try to preserve. These echoes of Jewishness in the Amazon – either as preservation or cultural return movement – are the main focus of this article based on the story of Ana and Ionathan’s investigations. For that purpose, we rely on theoretical and historical documents by Reginaldo Jonas Heller, Henrique Veltman, Samuel Benchimol, Moacyr Scliar, Paul Johnson among others.