ID:
L0014
Duration (hours):
54
CFU:
9
SSD:
LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUE PORTOGHESE E BRASILIANA
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Annuale (03/10/2025 - 31/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the student will:
be able to read, write, understand, and speak Portuguese (level B1/B2);
have developed metalinguistic awareness of issues relating to semantics, lexical relations, and syntax;
be able to use coordination and subordination structures consciously.
Achieving the B1/B2 level of instrumental competence and acquiring the knowledge and skills required for this course will enable students to understand and produce written and oral texts dealing with linguistic topics, as well as to analyse original texts by applying the knowledge acquired. The combination of these skills and competences will provide the necessary foundation for the subsequent year of the course (Linguistics and Translation of European and Brazilian Portuguese III) within the degree programme.
Course Prerequisites
Students will be expected to:
• have previously attended the course in Linguistics and Translation of Portuguese and Brazilian I;
• be able to express themselves (both orally and in writing), mastering the basic graphic, morphological, and syntactic structures necessary for interaction in everyday situations;
• be able to understand a written text or an oral discourse related to everyday life situations;
• be able to read and comprehend a simple scientific text;
• have knowledge of the diachronic, diatopic, diastratic, diaphasic, and diamesic evolution of European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP);
• have knowledge of the phonetics of European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), as well as their IPA transcription;
• have knowledge of the basic topics required for metalinguistic reflection on the linguistic system;
• have an in-depth knowledge of the grammar of their mother tongue and of Portuguese.
Teaching Methods
The lectures of the institutional course and the language practice classes will be delivered in Portuguese and will take place in the classroom, with the support of video (slides) and audio materials, as well as textbooks for the teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL). Conferences and academic lectures on related topics are planned to foster a broader and more diversified competence. The institutional platform will be used for teacher–student interaction, serving as the space where the materials distributed during lectures and practice sessions, the bibliography, and other supporting resources will be shared. The lecturer and the language expert collaborator will set their office hours, both in person and online, and will inform students accordingly.
It should be emphasised that exam preparation carried out exclusively through the reading of collective notes (which circulate online, sometimes even illegally) can in no way replace the study of the material prepared by the lecturers (and therefore subject to copyright) and the complete bibliography indicated below.
Assessment Methods
The final grade will be a single mark resulting from the overall assessment of the various activities, which include:
Institutional Course: three mid-term written tests (not compulsory), one for each topic covered in class (Creole Studies; Syntax; and Semantics). At the end of the course, students who have successfully passed all three written tests will be admitted to the final oral exam. Those who either do not take the mid-term tests or fail to pass them will be required to sit a comprehensive written exam on the entire contents of the institutional course, before proceeding to the oral exam. Further details will be provided during the course and office hours.
Language Practice Classes (Lettorato): consult the lecturer.
Texts
For the institutional course, the required bibliography and supporting teaching materials to be studied for the exam are as follows:
Written exam:
André ELISEU, 2008, Sintaxe do português, Lisboa: Editorial Caminho;
Graça RIO-TORTO and Ana Cristina LOPES MACÁRIO, 2007, Semântica, Lisboa: Editorial Caminho;
Course slides*.
Oral exam:
Ivonete da Silva SANTOS, 2021, “Estudo comparativo da variação léxico-semântica de vinte substantivos comuns registrados em dicionários brasileiro e português: o caso do dicionários Houaiss da língua portuguesa (2009) e do Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (2012),” in Fernanda TONELLI and Lilian de SOUZA (eds.), Linguística, Letras e Artes: Culturas e Identidades 2, pp. 228–241*;
Mary A. KATO, 2020, “As controvérsias sobre o sujeito nulo no português brasileiro,” in Vanessa CASTAGNA and Sandra QUAREZEMIN (eds.), Travessias em língua portuguesa: Pesquisa linguística, ensino e tradução, pp. 72–92*;
Telmo VERDELHO, 2022, "Dicionários portugueses, breve história", in José Horta NUNES e Margarida PETTER (orgs.), História do saber lexical e constituição de um léxico brasileiro,São Paulo: Pontes, pp 15-64*.
One of the following texts:
Maria Eliete de QUEIROZ, José Rubens PEREIRA, and Carlos Eduardo COUTINHO DE MELO, 2023, “As marcas linguísticas e discursivas do texto em discursos religiosos de língua portuguesa: análise de plano de texto e de representação semântica,” in António Manuel FERREIRA et al., Pelos mares da língua portuguesa 5, pp. 101–118*;
Grace dos Anjos Freire BANDEIRA, 2023, “Sobre a reflexividade em português brasileiro,” in António Manuel FERREIRA et al., Pelos mares da língua portuguesa 5, pp. 225–248*.
(The asterisk indicates that the material will be available on the course’s Teams platform and provided in class).
Contents
Instrumental Language Course (Dr. Wânia Belloni):
The course aims to achieve a B1/B2 level of instrumental language proficiency, as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Written and oral practice sessions with the language assistant will provide students with the tools to acquire, refine, and strengthen the linguistic and communicative competences required for the indicated level. The course focuses on learning Portuguese in its Brazilian variety (PB).
Institutional Course (Dr. Matteo Migliorelli):
The lectures will provide students with the tools to acquire, refine, and strengthen the linguistic and communicative competences required for the indicated level, as well as the knowledge of the structural features of Portuguese in its European (PE) and Brazilian (PB) varieties, at the syntagmatic, phrasal, and semantic-lexical levels.
Course Language
Portuguese
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During lectures and practice sessions:
written and oral consolidation exercises will be carried out;
activities applying the structures presented will be proposed;
exercises completed independently will be corrected and discussed.
During the language practice sessions (tutorials) and lectures, students will be required:
to carry out application activities on the structures presented;
to formulate hypotheses;
to undertake short research tasks on specific topics.
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