Donesca XhafajFederal University of Santa Catarina | UFSC · Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras
Donesca Xhafaj
PhD in Applied Linguistics
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Introduction
Donesca Xhafaj currently works at the Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras, Federal University of Santa Catarina. Donesca does research in Language Education, Teacher Education and Teaching Methods. Their current project is 'The more the merrier(?): Collaborative and individual strategic planning effect on L2 oral tasks'.
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Publications (10)
This mixed-methods study aims to investigate the bias in peer feedback. Thirty-two English as an additional language learners gave each other anonymous feedback on their texts. Half of the participants received feedback from their teacher disguised as peer feedback, while the other half received actual peer feedback. Data were collected through dra...
The pandemic has had quite an impact on the way we teach and learn. During that time, Brazilian universities implemented remote learning for more than 15 months. While the initial move was a reaction to an emergency and saw the transposition of many classes to the virtual mode, the following months saw the flourishing of initiatives that enhanced l...
This study compares the effectiveness and perception of anonymous and conference peer feedback on the writing of learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL). The 24 participants attended two classes of EAL at upper-intermediate level in an extension project at a university in Brazil. Both groups were experimental. One engaged with asynchron...
Tendo como base os desafios envolvidos na produção oral (LEVELT, 1989), especialmente na L2 (KORMOS, 2014), este estudo examina o planejamento estratégico (ELLIS, 2005) e seu impacto no desempenho de aprendizes de inglês como L2 em uma tarefa oral, por eles planejada, de forma individual e/ou colaborativa. Com o aporte da hipótese da produção (SWAI...
Com o objetivo de refletir sobre os processos de mudança pelos quais um projeto de pesquisa e um pesquisador iniciante passam ao conduzir estudo piloto, espera-se que o presente trabalho possa somar-se ao corpo de pesquisa em Linguística Aplicada, no caso, o ensino de Inglês como segunda língua no Brasil. Dessa forma, o enfoque dessa análise volta-...
O deslocamento forçado de pessoas no mundo apresenta o desafio de atendimento
a todos e todas, sem distinção de origem. Neste contexto, a língua do país acolhedor se insere em um conjunto de obstáculos enfrentados pelas pessoas deslocadas para ter acesso a seus direitos. A oferta de cursos de língua portuguesa se constitui assim como uma das ações...
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Recently, Bigelow, Delmas, Hansen, and Tarone (2006) arguedthat the differences in the oral performance of their L2 speakers(favoring the more literate ones) were probably due to their lowlevel of metalinguistic awareness (which would be a consequenceof their limited literacy). So as to contribute with evidence for thishypothesis, we collec...
Research on planning in the task-based approach has become a niche of research in its own. The present study attempted to shed some light on the effects of peer-planning by comparing the oral performance of 16 learners of English as a foreign language attending the 7 th semester of a Letras Program, who performed a monological task in either an ind...
Fortkamp, M.B.M ; Xhafaj,D ; FINARDI, K. R. . The design and implementation of a task cycle in a regular EFL class: a case study. GLAUKS (UFV), v. 6, p. 55-77, 2006.
