Janaina Weissheimer

Laboratório de Estudos Experimentais em Linguagem LEELin · Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar o possível impacto da utilização do aplicativo WhatsApp no desenvolvimento da produção oral dos aprendizes em Língua Inglesa (L2), em termos de fluência. Para tanto, quarenta e seis alunos voluntários dos cursos de Informática, Agroindústria e Agropecuária da Escola Agrícola de Jundiaí/UFRN integraram a pes...

This article discusses the immeasurable contributions of Judy Kroll's pioneering work in the field of bilingualism research, emphasizing how her interdisciplinary approach, theoretical insights, and empirical innovation have shaped our understanding of bilingual language processing, the language and cognition interaction, and the social and cultura...

Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar as percepções dos aprendizes sobre a utilização do WhatsApp como ferramenta de produção oral em inglês como L2. Para tanto, quarenta e seis alunos voluntários de cursos de Informática, Agroindústria e Agropecuária integraram a pesquisa. Os dados foram gerados através da aplicação de um questionário, compost...

This study examined the effects of bilingual education and simultaneous biliteracy on children’s levels of speech connectedness and reading in Portuguese and English. Thirty-two 5th graders completed oral production tasks and took reading fluency and comprehension tests in L1 and L2. Our results show that, in general, children show connectedness an...

The present study aimed at investigating, in a longitudinal way, connectedness and syntactic complexity in written narratives in Portuguese (L1) and English (L2) produced by 5th and 6th grade children enrolled in a bilingual school. For the evaluation of connectedness (thought organization), we used the computational tool SpeechGraphs (MOTA et al.,...

Este artigo analisa as concepções de língua e de leitura apresentadas pela Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC 2017, 2018) para o ensino de língua materna nas etapas do Ensino Fundamental e Médio. O objetivo é verificar se os conceitos apresentados nos documentos oficiais brasileiros têm se orientado por evidências científicas e se são capazes de...

Este estudo investiga o tratamento dado à produção oral (PO) em um curso de Licenciatura em Letras Espanhol a distância e analisa se a realização de tarefas de PO contribui para o desenvolvimento dessa habilidade em relação à pronúncia, acurácia gramatical e fluência de aprendizes de espanhol como língua estrangeira (LE) na educação a distância (Ea...

Este artigo visa reportar um estudo que investigou o nível de aceitabilidade e os efeitos do treinamento linguístico de pronomes clíticos por meio da tarefa do labirinto como uma ferramenta pedagógica para aprimorar o conhecimento implícito de estruturas da língua nativa de indivíduos de alta escolaridade. Evidências recentes sugerem que o treiname...

Language has been taken as a privileged window to investigate mental processes. More recently, descriptions of psychopathological symptoms have been analyzed with the help of natural language processing tools. An example is the study of speech organization using graph theoretical approaches that began around ten years ago. After its application in...

Early literacy skills such as alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness are made up the foundation for learning to read. These skills are more effectively taught with explicit instruction starting inpreschool and then continuing during early elementary school years. The COVID19 pandemic school closures severely impacted early literacy development w...

Language experience shapes the gradual maturation of speech production in both native (L1) and second (L2) languages. Structural aspects like the connectedness of spontaneous narratives reveal this maturation progress in L1 acquisition and, as it does not rely on semantics, it could also reveal structural pattern changes during L2 acquisition. The...

Book Description: This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises. The book draws on case studies from a...

We investigate the association of short- and long-range recurrences (speech connectedness) with age, education, and reading and writing habits (RWH) in typical aging using an oral narrative production task. Oral narrative transcriptions were represented as word-graphs to measure short- and long-range recurrences. Speech connectedness was explained...

Recent studies have emphasized the positive effects of early biliteracy on children’s linguistic and cognitive abilities. However, the extent to which one system affects the other is not totally understood (Finger & Brentano, in press). With that in mind, this paper presents the results of a study that aimed to compare the levels of syntactic compl...

According to Bygate and Samuda (2005), task repetition can help students to integrate what they know with what they do, since it allows two different experiences of the same requirements of a task. Thus, such differences can result in changes from one speech production to another. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate which indiv...

We have recently used randomized controlled trials to examine the impact of a short neuroscience-informed causal intervention using a targeted training to inhibit a deeply rooted visual mechanism (mirror invariance) that hinders literacy acquisition, combined with post-training sleep (for learning consolidation). Using this training protocol, we ha...

Connected speech is an everyday activity. We aimed to investigate whether connected speech can differentiate oral narrative production between adults with Alzheimer’s disease (AD; n = 24) and cognitively healthy older adults (n = 48). We used graph attributes analysis to represent connected speech. Participants produced oral narratives and performe...

Recent research on the role of classroom feedback has pointed out that learning is easier and quicker when students receive detailed feedback that tells them precisely what they have done wrong and what they should have done instead. Our study aimed to investigate how two different types of classroom feedback influence the development of bilingual...

Mirror invariance is a visual mechanism that enables a prompt recognition of mirror images. This visual capacity emerges early in human development, is useful to recognize objects, faces, and places from both left and right perspectives, and is also present in primates, pigeons, and cephalopods. Notwithstanding, the same visual mechanism has been s...

Background: Connected speech, an ecologically valid task, represents a valuable tool to support the detection of linguistic and cognitive impairment. Objective: First, to verify whether connected speech can differentiate oral narrative production between adults with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cognitively healthy older adults (HOA). Second, to ver...

The current global threat brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread social isolation, posing new challenges in dealing with metal suffering related to social distancing, and in quickly learning new social habits intended to prevent contagion. Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps people to cope with negative emotions...

Neuroscience and psychology agree that dreaming helps to cope with negative emotions and learn from experience. The current global threat related to the COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread social isolation. How does this situation affect dreams? Is dreaming during the pandemic related to mental suffering? Does the act of observing dreams help to mi...

Este artigo reporta um estudo que investigou os efeitos de diferentes condições de planejamento pré-tarefa sobre o desempenho oral em L2. Vinte e seis aprendizes de inglês de um instituto de línguas realizaram uma tarefa oral na qual tiveram de descrever três figuras, cada uma por um minuto, sob as seguintes condições: não-planejamento, planejament...

Ao presente artigo interessou analisar como uma tarefa de leitura e compreensão de texto (ANEMA, 2008), pode ser considerada como critério de proficiência linguística (SEGALOWITZ, 2010; TAVAKOLI, 2011), em experimentos envolvendo sujeitos bilíngues. A literatura tem sugerido que grande maioria dos testes empregados para aferir proficiência linguíst...

O presente artigo traz uma síntese sobre os efeitos da ferramenta para leitura Spritz sobre a competência leitora de sujeitos bilíngues. O estudo que serviu de base para sua elaboração destaca a compreensão de leitura em dois modos de apresentação do texto - Spritz e digital - e em duas línguas -Português (L1) e Inglês (L2). A investigação, de cará...

Recent findings show that children from low-socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have reduced performance on several tasks involving working memory, attention and executive control. In addition, researchers argue for the effectiveness of training of these same cognitive skills as a way to ameliorate children’s EF skills as well as scholastic outcomes...

Este artigo reporta um estudo de pequena escala, de natureza qualitativa, que teve como objetivos (a) investigar o uso de tecnologias digitais por professores de inglês em âmbito do IsFe (b) analisar as suas percepções no que diz respeito ao uso pedagógico de tecnologias digitais, especificamente no processo de ensino-aprendizagem de inglês como Se...

Formal thought organization obtained from free speech, a key feature for psychiatric evaluations, has been poorly investigated during typical development. Computational tools such as speech graph connectedness (LSC) currently allow for an accurate quantification in naturalistic settings. LSC's typical development is better predicted by years of edu...

VoiceThread (VT) é uma ferramenta assíncrona que permite a criação de apresentações orais, possibilitando que grupos de pessoas contribuam com comentários utilizando a voz. Neste contexto, o presente estudo visa a verificar de que forma a prática com o VT, em uma abordagem híbrida, impacta a produção oral dos aprendizes. A fim de responder a essa q...

Although pronominal reference is a common device in language, there is much debate about how we use contextual and structural cues to process pronouns. The main goal of the present study was to set a completion experiment following Rohde’s (2008) work to test how pragmatic and grammatical cues interact during pronoun interpretation. Our motivation...

Neuroimaging has undergone enormous progress during the last two and a half decades. The combination of neuroscientific methods and educational practice has become a focus of interdisciplinary research in order to answer more applied questions. In this realm, conditions that hamper learning success and have deleterious effects in the population – s...

Ler e escrever são direitos essenciais, que envolvem dimensões individuais e coletivas (UNESCO, 2005). No entanto, os transtornos de leitura e déficits em funções executivas podem tornar essa atividade árdua. Buscamos investigar o desenvolvimento da competência leitora de 43 alunos do 3º ano em escolas da rede pública de Natal-RN e sua relação com...

Este artigo reporta um estudo qualitativo conduzido na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), no qual 55 professores de inglês como Segunda Língua (L2), matriculados em cursos de formação inicial (graduação em Letras/Inglês) e continuada (PARFORA e especialização em Ensino-aprendizagem de Inglês como Língua Estrangeira) responderam a u...

As mobile devices become smaller and more appealing among readers, the use of technology to improve reading efficiency in terms of speed and comprehension has recently increased in popularity. An important question to be pursued is whether the way in which texts are presented on screen has any impact on reading comprehension. In the current study,...

Escrever textos em uma segunda língua (L2) requer mais esforço cognitivo do que escrever em língua materna e, sendo a produção de linguagem benéfica ao desenvolvimento do aprendiz, faz-se necessário criar estratégias pedagógicas focadas na habilidade de escrita (writing). Este artigo vem reportar um estudo cujo objetivo foi investigar o impacto da...

To explore the relationship between memory and early school performance, we used graph theory to investigate memory reports from 76 children aged 6–8 years. The reports comprised autobiographical memories of events days to years past, and memories of novel images reported immediately after encoding. We also measured intelligence quotient (IQ) and t...

Digital technologies can assist in the development of second language learners’ writing and speaking skills. Taking this into consideration, this article reports the qualitative results of two studies on the use of digital technologies, namely GoogleDocs and VoiceThread, following a blended learning model. We aimed at analyzing the impressions of t...

ABSTRACT: The present study aims at verifying whether the way we access words is influenced by the lexicon structure of the language; more specifically, whether there is any difference in the way we recognize Brazilian Portuguese (BP) single and compound words. Two lexical decision tests were applied to eighty participants to determine (i) whether...

Alguns autores já sugeriram que diferentes tarefas de aprendizagem influenciam a motivação de aprendizes de L2 de formas distintas. Neste artigo buscamos (a) compreender de que forma a motivação de aprendizes de inglês varia ao longo de duas tarefas de Resolução de Problemas e Socialização de Informações Pessoais mediadas pela Lousa Digital Interat...

Sleep helps the consolidation of declarative memories in the laboratory, but the pro-mnemonic effect of daytime naps in schools is yet to be fully characterized. While a few studies indicate that sleep can indeed benefit school learning, it remains unclear how best to use it. Here we set out to evaluate the influence of daytime naps on the duration...

This study investigates whether working memory capacity (WMC) varies across languages and in the course of L2 speech proficiency levels. Following suggestions in Finardi and Weissheimer (2009) and Prebianca (2010), who found that WMC varied as a function of L2 speech proficiency, the present study assessed three proficiency levels (elementary, inte...

Este texto objetiva traçar um mapa preliminar do ensino bilíngue em Natal/RN com base nos conceitos de sujeito bilíngue (GROSJEAN, 1982; WEI, 2000) e de educação bilíngue (HAMERS; BLANC, 2000; FISHMAN; LOVAS, 1970; DALE; TANNER, 2012). Os dados foram gerados através de questionários e entrevistas em quatro escolas particulares da região urbana da c...

Este artigo reporta um estudo sobre a escrita colaborativa no ensino de Inglês como Língua Adicional. Duas turmas de aprendizes escreveram textos no gênero flash fiction colaborativamente: uma a partir de oficinas em sala de aula, a outra utilizando uma ferramenta online. Aqui comparamos os dois cenários, trazendo à tona as impressões dos aprendize...

Technology has increasingly incorporated several teaching and learning practices; however, there is still a lot to be revealed about the impact of web tools on L2 skill acquisition. This study aimed at investigating the impact of collaborative writing with Google Docs – a web tool available for online co-writing and editing – on learners’ developme...

This study addresses the question of how working memory capacity and L2 speech production covary over a period of time, during learners' L2 speech development. Participants were submitted to two data collection phases, each one consisting of a working memory test (an adaptation of Daneman's 1991 speaking span test) and a speech generation task, wit...

Este estudo investiga a relação entre a capacidade de memó-ria de trabalho e a densidade lexical (DL) no desempenho oral e no de-senvolvimento da habilidade de produção oral em L2. Os 45 participan-tes deste estudo foram submetidos a duas coletas de dados, cada umaconsistindo de um teste de amplitude de memória de trabalho duranteo desempenho oral,...

This study investigates whether working memory capacity varies in the course of L2 speech proficiency. Seventy-nine students of the Federal Universities of Bahia and Santa Catarina were assigned into a basic or an intermediate group, according to their scores in the L2 proficiency test. They were also submitted to an L2 adaptation of Daneman’s 1991...

This study investigates whether working memory capacity varies in the course of L2 speech proficiency. Seventy-nine students of the Federal Universities of Bahia and Santa Catarina were assigned into a basic or an intermediate group, according to their scores in the L2 proficiency test. They were also submitted to an L2 adaptation of Daneman’s 1991...

O presente artigo examina se a natureza da relação entre memória de trabalho e desempenho em tarefas de língua estrangeira (L2) é geral ou específica. Uma bateria de quatro testes de memória de trabalho em inglês e quatro tarefas de desempenho foi aplicada em doze estudantes universitários de nível elementar em inglês como L2. A análise mostrou uma...