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- Escritas inventadas no Jardim-de-Infância: comparando dois programas de intervençãoPublication . Almeida, Tiago; Silva, C.The aim of this study was to compare the effect of two training programs on invented spelling on the quality of written and reading productions. Participated 100 children who could not read or write, distributed by four experimental groups and one of control. Groups 1 and 2 had followed the methodology of Alves Martins, Albuquerque, Salvador e Silva (2013) and groups 3 and 4 the methodology of Ouellette, Sénéchal and Haley (2013). In groups 1 and 3 we used facilitator words whose initial syllable coincides with the name of the letter and in groups 2 and 4 facilitator words whose initial syllable coincides with the sound. Groups 1 and 2 had higher results than groups 3, 4 and control.
- Exploring SL Writing and SL Sensitivity during Writing Tasks : poor and advanced writing in a context of second language other than EnglishPublication . Figueiredo, Sandra; Martins, Margarida Alves; Silva, C.; Simões, C.This study integrates a larger research empirical project that examines second language (SL) learners’ profiles and valid procedures to perform complete and diagnostic assessment in schools. 102 learners of Portuguese as a SL aged 7 and 17 years speakers of distinct home languages were assessed in several linguistic tasks. In this article, we focused on writing performance in the specific task of narrative essay composition. The written outputs were measured using the score in six components adapted from an English SL assessment context (Alberta Education): linguistic vocabulary, grammar, syntax, strategy, socio-linguistic, and discourse. The writing processes and strategies in Portuguese language used by different immigrant students were analysed to determine features and diversity of deficits on authentic texts performed by SL writers. Differentiated performance was based on the diversity of the following variables: grades, previous schooling, home language, instruction in first language, and exposure to Portuguese as Second Language. Indo-Aryan languages speakers showed low writing scores compared to their peers and the type of language and respective cognitive mapping (such as Mandarin and Arabic) was the predictor, not linguistic distance. Home language instruction should also be prominently considered in further research to understand specificities of cognitive academic profile in a Romance languages learning context. Additionally, this study also examined the teachers representations that will be here addressed to understand educational implications of second language teaching in psychological distress of different minorities in schools of specific host countries.
- Influence zones of pile-drive noise on a resident population of bottlenose dolphins in the Sado estuary, PortugalPublication . Luís, Ana Rita; Silva, C.; Andrade, Fabiana Fontenelle de; Santos, Manuel Eduardo dosInexistente
- Invented spelling intervention programmes : comparing explicit and implicit instructionsPublication . Almeida, Tiago; Silva, C.; Rosa, JoãoAbstract: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of two invented spelling intervention programs, one with explicit instruction of graph-phonetics matches and another based on questioning and reflection on the graph-phonetic correspondences (implicit instructions). Ninety pre-school children, whose invented spellings use conventional letters unconventionally to represent sounds, were allocated to three groups, two experimental and one control. All groups were equivalent in age, intelligence, letter knowledge, and phonological awareness. We manipulated the type of instructions (implicit vs. explicit) between the pre- and post-tests in two experimental groups where children participated in an intervention programme of invented spelling. Children who participated in the implicit intervention programme showed a significant improvement in the number of correct letters mobilized in their spelling and phonemic awareness compared with children of control and explicit instruction group. Children from explicit instruction group showed significant more improvements than the children from the control group. These results suggest that questioning and reflection applied to invented spelling programmes seems to enhance a more significant knowledge about the relations between the oral and written code.