Spoken and Written Communication B2
1
2024-2025
02023629
Languages
Portuguese
Face-to-face
1.0
Compulsory
Non Degree Course
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
The methodologies will follow those recommended for teaching a non-native language:
• Individual and collective production of written texts of various text types;
• implementation of techniques for text improvement;
• understanding / interpretation of written texts;
• verbal interaction between teacher and students and interaction between students (presenting subjects for the production of written texts; debates in order to prepare the written production; oral debates);
• simulation of everyday regularly encountered situations in order to promote spoken interaction making use of different linguistic registers;
• metalinguistic reflection;
• theoretical presentation;
• practice of the rules and contents that were taught in simulated situations of use.
Evaluation
Continuous assessment (40%) + written test (60%)
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students must:
i) have some reading fluency and expressiveness;
ii) talk fluently and effectively;
iii) Can express him / herself fluently in a clear and detailed way on a wide variety of topics and issues and give an opinion on a current issue, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of various options;
iv) understand the main points of a complex speech in standard Portuguese, on both concrete and abstract issues;
v) produce texts that reveal coherence and cohesion and demonstrate a relatively high degree of grammatical control;
vi) produce texts of various typologies that incorporate the specifics of standard Portuguese written and oral codes;
vii) Integrate the knowledge acquired in the course Portuguese Language Structures
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Syntactic- semantic aspects:
• different contexts of the use of synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms and some verbs
• expression of modal values:
- Adverbs of enunciation
- Verbs : duvidar/crer/julgar/saber/ter a certeza…
- poder+infinitive ; ser/estar proibido/a de; proibir; não ser permitido…-
- ainda bem que+indicative; lamentar que + subjuntive; ser bom que + subjuntive…
Mechanisms of textual cohesion: connectors
Textual sequences: description, narration, dialogue, exposition, argumentation
Text Types: letter/email, story, summary, text of opinion
Sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects:
• Forms of address
•Personal, spatial and temporal deixis
•basic illocutionary: ask, reject, accept, express desire/will/intention
•interrogative structures: repeat orders, confirmation, clarification
•indirect speech: requests, orders, questions ...
- Use of the imperfect, modal verbs, the forms of courtesy and various enunciative modalities
Head Lecturer(s)
Ana Isabel de Azevedo Guerra
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Continuous assessment (40%) + written test (60%): 100.0%
Bibliography
DICIONÁRIOS / DICTIONARIES
• Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001). Lisboa: Editorial Verbo, 2 vols.
• Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (2002-2003). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.
GRAMÁTICAS / GRAMMARS
• Arruda, Lígia (2012). Gramática de Português Língua Não Materna. Porto: Porto Editora.
• Bechara, Evanildo (2001). Moderna Gramática Portuguesa. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lucerna.
• Cunha, Celso; Cintra, Lindley (1984). Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Edições João Sá da Costa.
• Raposo, Eduardo B. Paiva et al. (orgs.) (2013), Gramática do Português. Lisboa: FCG.
• Rio-Torto, Graça et al. (2013). Gramática Derivacional do Português. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra