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Portuguese Didactics I

Objectives

a) To acquire central concepts and terminology to Portuguese (L1) teaching-and-learning.
b) To analyse syllabus and other normative national documents concerning Portuguese (L1) teaching-and-learning.
c) To have a critical understanding of teaching-and-learning issues in pedagogical contexts, articulating declarative knowledge, know-how and other abilities (how to be and how to learn).
d) To build up proposals according to different student profiles and different teacher roles.
e) To get familiar with appropriate methodologies concerning the teaching-and-learning of speaking/ listening, reading, writing and grammar.
f) To manage the criteria that underlie the development of the planning, implementation and evaluation stages.
g) To explain evaluation and assessment principles, types and objectives.A3ES/NONIO/GUIA A preencher pelo docente responsável

General characterization

Code

722160033

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Helena Virgínia Topa Valentim, Maria Antónia Diniz Caetano Coutinho

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

Costa, Ana Luísa Costa & Sónia Valente Rodrigues (org.) (2019) Avaliar aprendizagens gramaticais na escola. Revista da APL (número temático).
Dolz, Joaquim & Bernard Schneuwly (2004). Gêneros orais e escritos na escola. Campinas: Mercado de Letras.
Duarte, I. e Figueiredo, O. (2011). Português, língua e ensino. Porto: Universidade do Porto.
Duarte, Inês (2008). O Conhecimento da Língua: Desenvolver a Consciência Linguística. Lisboa: PNEP, Ministério da Educação.
Jorge, N., A. Coutinho (2017). Percursos (linguísticos) para análise (literária), Palavras, 50-51: 77 - 87.
Rodrigues, S. V. (2017) O ensino do português nas primeiras décadas do século XXI. Conselho Nacional de Educação.

Teaching method

The course will combine theoretical and practical classes, including presentation, demonstration, practical exercises, group discussion and reflection on the topics studied. Classes will favour the practical implementation of theory, interaction and students’ active participation both individually and in a group.

Evaluation method

Evaluation Methodologies - Presentations(30%), elaboration throughout the semester of a portfolio, including critical summaries of readings and planning of a didactic unit(70%)

Subject matter

1. The role of guidance documents in mother tongue (MT) education: skills assessment.
2. Contributions of linguistics to the teaching of the MT.
3. The explicit knowledge of language; methodologies for teaching grammar.
4. Understanding of oral expression: the role of oral language teaching; the oral formal school context.
5. The role of text in classroom language and guiding documents for the teaching of the MT. Criteria for selection of texts for the classroom.
6. Reading and literacy. Types and reading strategies. Reading and planning activities.
7. The learning of writing: mainstreaming / differentiation. The teaching of writing: planning, procedures and strategies. Writing, rewriting and evaluation of writing.
8. Literary and aesthetic education: contact with texts, the pleasure of reading and the poetic dimension.
9. Orality, literacy, grammar, literature and digital technology: presenting and building workshops /didactic sequences.