Portuguese Seminar II

Recommended Prerequisites

Completion of all the courses of the 1st-year

Teaching Methods

The students will make oral presentations on the texts they read and relate those texts to their teaching experience. Before each presentation, the students will hand in written notes or texts. The presentations will be followed by discussion in the seminar. The seminar sessions on complementary topics will be based on expository presentation by the teacher and the study of practical examples or other tasks by students.

Learning Outcomes

The main aim of this seminar is to guide students' in the preparation of their final MA report, focusing on the reflection on their teaching practice and specific research topic. Thus, students are expected to:

– apply the methods and instruments learned in the 1st semester to the research of sources for the preparation of thematic part of their report;

– show a good grasp of the sources on their chosen topic, which will focus on teaching methodology, and be able to extract relevant information from the literature for their supervised teaching practice and report;

– be able to develop, in the preparation of their report, a coherent argumentation, based on applied methological principles and practical examples, and appropriately documented.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The topics to be addressed in the seminar are those chosen by the students for their final MA reports. These topics will allow students to connect the course contents addressed in the 1^st-year courses (especially in the area od Didactics) with their teaching practice, further deepening their understanding of the research issues. The topic of the MA reports may be complemented by other topics that are relevant for the teaching of Portuguese Language and Literature.

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
In-class participation: 10.0%
Oral presentations and written outlines: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 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.