Portuguese Language and Culture

Scholar Year: 2012/2013 - 1S

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Courses

Docência - Horas Theoretical-practical : 0 Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical-practical Totals 1 0,00

Teaching weeks:

15

Teaching language

English

Objetivos de aprendizagem

•To develop communicative competencies in the Portuguese Language. To promote linguistic knowledge in Portuguese, relevant to Portuguese Culture. This subject will be the meeting point of different learning processes of a linguistic and cultural character, with particular emphasis on historical, geographical, political, literary, philosophical, artistic, sports and religious content.

Contents

Synthesis of the History of Portuguese Language.
Classes of words (names, determinants, verbs, invariable words).
Specific features of wordclasses (gender and number in nouns, adjectives and pronouns; conjugation of verbs).
Types of phrase.
Syntactic characteristics.
Levels of language and semantic questions.
Portugal’s historical, geographic and cultural synthesis (from several perspectives).

Teaching Procedures

•The subject will be based on the reception and production of texts, with both theoretical and practical components. The reading model, expressive reading, group work, the presentation of subjects by the students and written exercises will be the main focus.

Evaluation Type

Final Classification

Assessment - Oral and written text production, with attention to the development of students’ linguistic and communicative competencies, as well as improvement of their cultural knowledge.

Observations

Run by School of Education (ESE).