Portuguese Seminar I

Recommended Prerequisites

Completion of all the 1st-year courses of the program

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are mostly interactive and include oral presentations, discussion of texts, discussion of practical problems related to the students' teaching practice, and weekly tasks of writing and research carried out by students.

Learning Outcomes

This seminar aims to enable students to

1. Deepen methodological, deontological and empirical knowledge in Portuguese-language teaching and didactics;

2. Acquire essential methods and tools for the production of the final MA report;

3. Develop the ability to

– mobilize relevant knowledge for the analysis of pedagogic and didactic issues;

– apply their knowledge and understanding to new issues using the conceptual instruments of this field;

– make critical use of methods and theories;

– apply research skills and relevant methodological procedures in their field of study;

– communicate clearly their findings, and engage in critical debate and argumentation.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The teacher training practice in school.

2. Guidelines for academic writing.

3. How to organise the final MA report: internal structure  and methods for data collection.

4. Discussion of the topics addressed by the students in their reports.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Maria Silva Machado

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Active participation in seminar discussions: 20.0%
Critical summary of sources for the thematic part of the report, presented orally and in writing: 30.0%
Synthesis work - First section of report: 50.0%

Bibliography

AAVV (2008). Actas. Conferência Internacional sobre o Ensino do Português. Lisboa: Ministério da Educação.

AA.VV. Didáctica da língua e da literatura. Coimbra: Almedina; ILLP/FLUC. 

BARDIN, L. (1977). L'analyse de contenu. Paris : PUF.

(2000). Análise de conteúdo.  Lisboa : Ed. 70

CASTRO, R. V. de (2005). O Português nas escolas. Ensaios sobre a língua e a literatura no ensino secundário. Coimbra: Almedina.

CASTRO, R. V. de e SOUSA, M de L. D. de (1999). Entre linhas paralelas. Estudos sobre o português nas escolas. Braga: Angelus Novus. 

DUARTE, I. e Mourão, P. (org.). Ensino do Português para o Século XXI. Lisboa: Colibri.

DUARTE, I. M. e Figueiredo, O. (orgs.) (2011). Português, língua e ensino. Porto: U. Porto Editorial.

MELLO, C. (2010 ) "Da biblioteca académica ao contexto pedagógico da leitura" in Colóquio Didáctico. Lingua e Literatura. Coimbra: FLUC.

SOUSA, M. de L.  D. de (1993). A interpretação de textos nas aulas de português. Porto: Asa.