Oral and Written Communication - Elementary Level A2

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Students will be involved in work sessions that will allow them have contact with different social contexts and situations, different kinds of written and oral texts, protocols and speech acts, specific and general topics and ideas that are predictably necessary for the use of language in diverse communication activities. In what concerns the oral component, the general ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters will be developed.

No assessment. Compulsory attendance.

Learning Outcomes

Acquisition/development of communicative competence in Portuguese (level A2).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Portuguese orthographic issues

 spelling general rules

 rules for wrapping

Syntactic-semantic issues:

 semantic-categorical selection of some verbs

 Verbs + prepositions

 Time and aspect: ser / estar; present indicative; the expression of future events; hic et nunc vs. habitual/timeless meaning of the present indicative; periphrastic constructions; imperfect indicative

 Modality: DEVER e TER QUE/DE, QUERER e PRECISAR DE

Mechanisms of textual cohesion: argumentative and counter-argumentative connectors

Text typology:

 descriptive text

 narrative text

 dialogical text

 epistolary text

 expository text

Lexical semantics

 antonymy,synonymy

 hypernymy.hyponymy

Sociolinguistic and pragmatic-textual issues

 forms of address in Portugal

 Personal, spatial and temporal deixis

 basic illocutionary acts

 metadiscursiv interrogative structures

 asking for repetition orders/confirmation/clarification

 indirect speech and use of:

 imperfect

 modal verbs

 politeness forms.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sandra Marisa da Costa Chapouto

Joana Isabel Sampaio Ribeiro Parreira Cortez Smyth

Bibliography

DICIONÁRIOS / Dictionaries

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

• Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001). Lisboa: Editorial Verbo.

• 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

• COELHO, Luísa ; CASTELEIRO, João ; OLIVEIRA, Carla (2007). Gramática Aplicada. Português Língua Estrangeira. A1, A2 e B1. Lisboa : Texto Editores.

• 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