Portuguese Foreign Language - C1

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The online course draws maily on an active method of teaching and learning, providing students with relevant linguistic input and with language production opportunities, both oral and written, with corrective feedback. When presenting gramatical topics, the expository method will also be used.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

(i) use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes;

(ii) follow a wide range of themes, to read and to understand long and demanding texts, recognizing implicit meaning;

(iii) express ideas fluently and spontaneously without major hesitations in oral interaction;

(iv) produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects;

(v) express him/herself, in writing, in an organized and coherent manner, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Daily living in Portugal: work and leisure

2.Economy and globalization

3.Turism

4.Migration and mentalities

5.Science, inovation, technology and development

6.Studying in Portugal

7.The Portuguese Language: origins and varieties

8.Tangible heritage

9.Intangible heritage

 

1. Review of critical structures

1.1.Uses of verbal tenses and of the nominal forms of verbs

1.2.Subject/verb agreement

1.3.Nominal phrase structure and agreement

1.4.Argument structure of main verbs

1.5.Subordinate clauses (concessives, relatives introduced by prepositions, condicionals...)

2.Composing texts in Portuguese: lexicon and grammar

2.1. Coreference chains: pronominal anaphora, lexical chains, adverbs; anaphorical null subject

2.2. Coordinate connectors

2.3. Subordinate connectors introducing adverbial clauses

2.4. Textual and discursive connectors

2.5. Expressing modal and temporal-aspectual values in Portuguese

3. Relations between lexical and multilexical units (collocations, idioms)

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristina dos Santos Pereira Martins

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Assessment is continuous and based on formative and summative activities of distinct typologies (questionnaires with immediate feedback, participation in forums and wikis, file submission): 100.0%

Bibliography

MÓIA, TELMO; PERES, JOÃO (2003). Áreas críticas da língua portuguesa, 2ª edição. Lisboa: Caminho;

RAPOSO, E.B.P; NASCIMENTO, M.F.B.; MOTA, M.A.C.; SEGURA, L. & MENDES, A. (orgs.) (2013). Gramática do português, vols. I e II. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

RIO-TORTO, G.; RODRIGUES, A.S.; PEREIRA, I; PEREIRA, R. & RIBEIRO, S. (2016). Gramática derivacional do português, 2.ª edição. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

SEQUEIRA, R. M. (2010). Comunicar bem, práticas e estruturas Comunicativas, Lisboa: Editora Fonte da Palavra.

Para além dos materiais de formatos variados a fornecer na plataforma, será útil a consulta das seguintes obras de referência │Besides the materials provided in the platform, the following references are suggested:

CONSELHO DA EUROPA (2001). Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Língua – Aprendizagem, ensino, avaliação. Lisboa: Edições ASA.

DUARTE, I. (2000). Língua portuguesa. Instrumentos de análise. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.

LOPES, A.C.M. & CARAPINHA, C. (2013). Texto, coesão e coerência. Coimbra: Almedina/CELGA.

MATEUS, M. H. M. e tal. (2003). Gramática da língua portuguesa, 5ª ed. revista e aumentada. Lisboa: Caminho.