Language Laboratory A1

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

• Theoretical explanation;
• Exercises for improving pronunciation and recognition of vowel sounds and consonantal sounds;
• Exercises to recognize the correspondence between sound and spelling;
• Exercises in pronunciation: hearing and repetition of words, phrases and short texts;
• Teacher-student and student-student interaction;

• Exercises for improving listening skills;
• Exercises for improving spontaneous production.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to:
i) Pronounce in a comprehensible manner a limited repertoire of simple phrases and sentences;

ii) Establish relations between graphic and phonic units in very basic statements with which they are already familiar;

iii) Understand the main ideas and relevant information in short texts and messages on topics they already know;
iv) Read simple and short texts in a clear manner, even though at a slow pace;
v) Understand a very clear and carefully articulated speech;
vi) Interact in a basic manner provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is willing to help.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Vowel and consonantal sounds in standard Portuguese;
• Relationship between phoneme and grapheme;
• The use of the International Phonetic Alphabet;
• Classes of vowel sounds;
• Classes of consonant sounds; voiced and voiceless consonants;
• 'Glides' and falling oral and nasal diphthongs;
• The main stress in verbs and non verbs;
• Rules for placing the accent mark;

Intonation: declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Isabel Simões Dias Vieira Barbosa

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Continuous assessment (40%) + Final exam (60%): 100.0%

Bibliography

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (2013). Porto: Porto Editora.