Otávio A. B. Leal | 2019

The importance of written feedback has appeared in the 70s with the advent of the “process approach” (Hyland & Hyland, 2006). During the last 40 years this approach, that consists of teachers encouraging students to write through a multiple draft-system, has become extremely popular, and the relevance of written feedback that was provided all along this teaching approach has motivated uncountable studies in the area (Carless, 2006; Ferris, 1995; Lee, 2008; Seeker & Dincer, 2014; Truscott, 1996; etc). Having in mind the relevance that teachers‟ written feedback has achieved in the context of the SLA field, this study aims at investigating how fourth year UFSC Letras-Inglês students react to the feedback provided by their professor in advanced Academic Writing classes. This study happened in the context of a Brazilian University in a course called Inglês VII: Produção Textual Acadêmica. The data collected were two versions of an Abstract produced by 3 female students in the last year of their major and a semi-structured interview conducted with them with the purpose of understanding: a)What kinds of feedback they receive in their writing assignments b) What they change in the original version with the feedback received and c) What the students’ perceptions on the nature of received feedback are. The results provide second language teachers with a notion of the singularities emerged from the way students deal with the written response given by professors in their textual productions, since it has become very clear according to our results that each student is unique in his/her reactions towards the feedback received.

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Alison Silveira Morais | 2018

The subject of investigation in this analysis is the Devil created by Isaac Asimov in the fantasy book called Azazel in comparison to the Devil of the Bible, created and implemented throughout history by the Christian tradition, Catholic Catechism, popular tradition and collective imagination. Furthermore, by investigating how the Devil is portrayed according to their aesthetic aspects, behavior and skills and taking into consideration the Bible as a literary text and the field of Theopoetics, I will analyze how similar and/or divergent they are from one another in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics, the background information and their superpowers. This research aims at establishing contrasts and analogies between the different facets of the Devil in the light of the portrayal of the Devil in Jerusalem’s Bible at the interface of English Studies and Theology.

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Jéssica Soares Lopes | 2018

This research analyses the narrative in panels from the Japanese manga series Gantz (2000-2013) with the aid of concepts articulated by postcolonial theorists. The concepts of speciesism and Othering guide the reading of the images and dialogues, whose criteria of selection were the depiction of speciesist conflicts and animalization of the enemy, where power relations are observed in interactions between characters in the fictional war narrative of the manga. The features of Japanese sengo fiction allow for comparisons between the narrative of Gantz and historical racist and speciesist images of World War II. The continuity of speciesist discourse in this contemporary manga suggests allegories of racist wartime practices and a relation between speciesism, Othering and power relations in the so-called sengo, forming a bridge between the historical past and present through fictional discourse.

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Vinicius Garcia Valim | 2018

Com o início da Primeira Guerra Mundial em 1914, a Irlanda, como parte do Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda, tomou parte no conflito, embora sob um conjunto de diferentes tensões. Opiniões irlandesas sobre a guerra variavam; enquanto esta era vista por unionistas e alguns nacionalistas como uma causa nobre ao lado da Grã-Bretanha contra um inimigo em comum, outros rejeitavam a ideia de lutar ao lado de uma nação que havia colonialmente dominado a ilha por séculos e que viria a reagir violentamente ao Levante de Páscoa em 1916. Não é surpreendente, então, que essa ambivalência entre lutar “pela Grã-Bretanha” e “pela Irlanda” é uma questão na escrita de vários poetas irlandeses. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar de que forma a lealdade uma nação é apresentada em certos poemas selecionados sobre a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e se essa lealdade é dirigida à ideia de uma Irlanda independente ou à união com o Império Britânico. De acordo com uma visão ampla do que constitui “poesia de guerra”, a análise inclui poemas escritos por combatentes, por civis contemporâneos ao conflito e também por poetas escrevendo após a guerra, como forma de explorar como a Primeira Guerra Mundial foi reimaginada e seus efeitos realizados na poesia irlandesa posterior. A importância deste trabalho encontra-se em seu desafio a perspectivas reducionistas sobre a experiência irlandesa da Primeira Guerra Mundial e as respostas culturais a esta, bem como na sua investigação de tensões que permeiam a história irlandesa no século XX como um todo.

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Natália Alves | 2017

The wizard has been a central figure in literature since the Middle Ages. Their complex personalities allow them to assume several important roles in the narratives; sometimes playing the role of the hero, the counselor or the menacing villain. Regardless of the role they play within a given story, wizards have several common elements and characteristics that typify them. This work aims to analyze the character Dumbledore of the Harry Potter series, films and books, and investigate the ambiguity in his personality, his actions, his characterization and his relationships with other characters. This study seeks to understand how the character fits in the wizard archetype by using the theories of Frye and Campbell. The study also aims to show Dumbledore’s literary adaptation, based on Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation and focusing particularly on the characterization of the Wizard. The analysis showed that the character Dumbledore, for being often ambiguous, can lose some characteristics of the archetype. However, a deeper analysis of the character could be made in relation to his actions towards the hero of the story.

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Márcia Helena Bragio Flores | 2017

Many children face difficulties during the process of learning to read and that seems to be particularly true within the Brazilian public schools’ educational context. Working memory capacity (WMC) has been associated with learning processes such as reading ability and academic achievement. The present study draws on Mascarello (2016), who carried out an experiment with second graders from a Brazilian public school aiming at verifying the impact of WMC training on the learning of reading skills. The results reported in Mascarello (2016) show that the training exerted positive effects on children’s WMC and on their reading skills. The purpose of the present study is to detail which specific reading skills showed the most significant improvements in Mascarello (2016). The analysis carried out for the purposes of this undergraduate paper showed that, after WMC training, participants of the experimental group improved their ability to read homophones by 47.74 %, besides also showing better performance in reading six other kinds of words.

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Matheus A. Agnoletto | 2017

Answers to the complexities of teaching are not simply formulated, requiring teachers to constantly reason upon their practices. Since knowing what to do when teaching depends on a variety of aspects, the teacher’s manual stands out as a tool that regulates teachers’ professional activities, especially at the beginning of their careers. With this in mind, this study aims at analyzing the extent to which a novice teacher changes or adapts the classroom practices suggested in the teacher’s manual. In order to do so, three classes of a novice teacher from an English extracurricular program of a federal university in the South of Brazil were observed within one-month intervals. Moreover, interviews were conducted right after each class observation, so as to question the teacher about the reasoning behind his practices. Also, questionnaires were applied to the teacher, as a manner to uncover his perception in relation to the use of both the textbook and the teacher’s manual. The results show that the teacher’s practices are mediated by concepts and beliefs that revolve around the profession and which tend to be unconscious, thus needing to be verbalized and critically assessed so that they reach a level of awareness and thus can be uncovered, manipulated and modified. This finding appears to reveal the importance of reasoning teaching to teachers’ professional development.

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Natália Pires da Silva | 2017

While reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, it is possible to notice that many of his narratives are filled with obsessive characters, but only few studies are concerned with the question of obsession in Poe’s stories. Much of what was written until now has been in relation to the short story “Berenice” in which the protagonist is obsessed with his cousin’s teeth. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to analyze the theme of obsession in Poe’s short stories “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” once it seems to have a key influence in the most relevant actions in the short stories. According to Nöel Carroll, narratives are supposed to elicit a certain effect (14). Based on this, the main objective of this study is to understand how obsession, in these short stories, contribute to create a Gothicterror effect. In this regard, it was possible to notice that obsession in “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, when interpreted as the main theme of these narratives, creates effects such as suspense, a feeling of being haunted and also an uncanny effect.

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Elisa Silva Ramos | 2017

There is extensive literature comparing the works of Poe and Lovecraft. However, much of these works concern their uses of similar themes such as fear and insanity (Svitáková 2013; Harnušek 2013), while there is little discussion on how these authors utilized language to convey meaning. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to identify and analyze apophatic speech in passages from the horror short stories ―The Black Cat‖ and ―The Fall of the House of Usher,‖ by Poe, and ―Dagon‖ and ―The Call of Cthulhu,‖ by Lovecraft. For this work, apophatic speech is defined as a discourse which purposely denies or conceals information from the reader. In horror literature, this device can be utilized to provoke fear and a sense of mystery. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to understand and to compare the reasons why Poe and Lovecraft utilized apophatic speech in their horror tales.

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Fabrício Bernardini Schweitzer | 2016

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a North-American modernist writer expatriate in France, whose work has been mainly associated with Cubism due to her engagement with the avantgarde movement and some of its forerunner artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Juan Gris. Stein’s salon in Paris became a place where artistic and intellectual gatherings took place. The present study analyses “The Gentle Lena”, a short story published in Three Lives, in 1909, in the light of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. From this perspective, I seek to demonstrate that Stein’s idea of repetition has parallels in Freud’s thought too. Moreover, I intend to discuss that, like Freud, Stein observed the impacts of culture on subjects and society.

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