Portuguese as Second Language: online courses em Instituto de Línguas - Ciberescola/IULP

15th April to 28th June 2013

Applications Open!

All courses consist of 45-hour teaching sessions (22 sessions: 2-hour sessions twice a week + a 3-hour session) run by video conference.

Selection: Ciberescola and Universidade Lusófona do Porto are fully responsible for the selection of candidates.

Number of students: minimum of 14 learners to open a course. Students are split into two groups to attend classes.

Tutoring schedules are arranged on individual bases between the teacher and the students.

Technical requirements:

Learners must have:

• Broadband Internet
• Computer with webcam and microphone
• Flash Player installed (no course book is needed)

Students are required to do extra-session work, assigned by the teacher.

Certification: At the end of the course, learners will receive a certificate from Ciberescola and Universidade Lusófona do Porto stating their level of proficiency.

Please note: Students must sit for a placement interview on Skype to ensure correct allocation to a level.

Application Form can be found here

Course A1: Elementary

Language requirements: Candidates should have previously attended Portuguese classes for 1-3 months.

Goals: acquisition of high frequency vocabulary, basic spelling and pronunciation principles as well as basic sentence structures needed to understand simple sentences, instructions, and descriptions used in everyday life.

Course description: At the end of the course, students should be able to make simple sentences and reply to questions on a range of personal and common subjects; they should also be able to read simple and short texts and to understand small pieces of oral input.

Methodology: Teacher-oriented activities (on and offline). Emphasis will be given to the acquisition of high frequency vocabulary and basic grammar rules.

Fee: 300 €

Course A2: Lower Intermediate Level

Language requirements: Candidates should have previously attended Portuguese classes for at least 6 months.

Goals: Communicate appropriately in regular social contexts.

Course description: At the end of the course, students should be able to engage in day-to-day communicative interactions (asking and giving information, introducing themselves and others, expressing opinions, etc.).

Methodology: Teacher-oriented activities (on and offline). Emphasis will be given to the acquisition of frequent syntactic structures, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.

Fee: 300 €

Course B1: Upper Intermediate Level

Language requirements: Candidates should have previously attended Portuguese classes for at least 12 months.

Goals: Use of Portuguese to communicate in social settings and in culturally appropriate ways.

Course description: This course is designed to help learners develop their oral fluency both in speaking and listening comprehension. Grammar reference and grammar exercises are also a central component of this course. At the same time, students are encouraged to carry on an extensive reading programme. At the end of the course learners are expected to be able to communicate in Portuguese across a range of topics and registers.

Methodology: Repetition and negotiation activities are held in order to speed up vocabulary recall, acquire syntactic structures and improve pronunciation accuracy. Discourse features are also addressed especially in performances planned by learners in advance.

Fee: 300 €

Courses' Terms and Conditions:

1. All students must share their email addresses.

2. All personal information given by the student in the application form will be deleted after the end of the course.

3. All information needed to attend the course will be displayed on Ciberescola da Língua Portuguesa www.ciberescola.com.

4. Class sessions are run in FM http://fm.ea-tel.eu/ . This service is provided via a server used for research purposes. The ownership of any recorded data and files resides with The Open University - UK. None of the sessions/recordings will be made accessible.

5. All students commit to taking 15-20 interactive and writing exercises as homework.

6. The speech training activities held at VOXOP will be recorded and accessible to students of this course edition exclusively.

7. If a student behaves inappropriately we reserve the right to block his access to the course.

8. Minimum attendance rate is 80%.

9. At the end of the course, students take an online test (divided into three parts, similar to the diagnostic test) and a speaking test which consists of a short one-to-one conversation with the teacher.

10. Points 8. and 9. are compulsory in order to obtain the course certificate.

For further information, please send your email to: international@ulp.pt or contact +351 22 207 32 32

 Programa Tandem Learning Português - outra língua - Cibercursos da Língua Portuguesa
O nosso programa tandem/aprendizagem colaborativa continua em força! Ver descrição: http://www.cibercursoslp.com/tandem.html
Os participantes têm aqui sugestões/orientações para desenvolverem as sessões de conversação:
http://www.cibercursoslp.com/index.php?action=destaques&id=72

Apelo a inscrições de falantes nativos do português no programa Aprendizagem Colaborativa/Tandem Learning dos Cibercursos da Língua Portuguesa

Desde que foi lançado o programa Aprendizagem Colaborativa dos Cibercursos/Tandem Learning, há 15 dias, recebemos cerca de 25 inscrições – o que nos traz uma grande alegria.
No entanto, a inscrição de falantes nativos do português é ainda muito reduzida, o que é pena. O nosso programa de aprendizagem colaborativa de línguas é seguro, porque as sessões (por vídeo conferência) são gravadas, é gratuito e – fundamentalmente – é uma excelente oportunidade de desenvolver a aprendizagem de uma língua, quer se esteja a ter aulas dessa língua ou não. Isto porque a aprendizagem colaborativa cria condições ótimas de imersão linguística ou seja, de contacto direto com falantes nativos da língua que se quer aprender. É fácil perceber que a oportunidade de falar com falantes nativos permite treinar a capacidade de expressão oral, alargar o vocabulário e aumentar a motivação.
As línguas de troca, neste momento, são: o inglês, o francês, o espanhol, o italiano, o russo, o gaélico, o romeno e o ucraniano.
Este apelo é dirigido a falantes do português, portugueses ou nacionais de qualquer outro país lusófono.
Podem consultar todas as informações necessárias sobre o programa aqui: http://www.cibercursoslp.com/tandem.html

 Cibercursos' Tandem Leaning Programmme

The Tandem Learning Programme (TLP) is a one-to-one reciprocal language learning resource where two native speakers (or high proficient speakers) of two different languages can meet and practice each other’s language.

Requirements

Tandem Learning Programme is free of charge.
The programme is aimed at all students/learners, aged above 16, who wish to develop their speaking proficiency in Portuguese or any other language.
Students must have been studying the target language for at least one year prior to participating in the TLP, even if they are not attending language lessons by the time they apply to the Tandem Learning Programme.
Technical requirements: Learners must have broadband Internet, computer with webcam and microphone and Flash Player installed.

How it works

Students will be paired by our staff after completion of the registration form here.
The programme runs on FM EA-TEL, a free videoconferencing application, owned by The Open University, UK. Students meet-up for a 1-hour online session, twice a week. Each session is split in two halves: in the first half students speak in one of the target languages and in the second half they switch languages.
Each session is booked individually and the respective URL is sent to students by email with a suggested topic. The schedules are arranged between the two students, using Doodle, and then published on this page.
Students may drop out of the programme at any time, but if they attend at least 25 sessions they will receive a certificate of attendance. Read terms and conditions here

Security

All sessions are recorded. Only the convener and the participants of a session can replay the session by clicking on the URL provided. First sessions are attended by the convener (Ana Sousa Martins).

What are the target languages?

A native speaker of Portuguese (European or Brazilian Portuguese) may choose any language he or she wishes. A non-native speaker of Portuguese must choose Portuguese as his or her target language.

Why join in?

Learning a language requires a lot of effort and it is time-consuming. The moment you stop studying the language, you start losing it. Even if you are taking classes, your turn to speak, in a class context, is quite limited and it is mainly prompted by the teacher (indeed, as it should be!). However, if you were to add to your learning experience a chance to have a more extensive contact with a native speaker (or a highly proficient speaker), you would speed up your speaking-listening skills and increase your motivation.
If you have any further questions please contact Ana Sousa Martins.

LEITURA E VOCABULÁRIO

Será que estimular a técnica de adivinhar as palavras através do contexto, aquando da leitura de um texto por aprendentes de português língua estrangeira, é a melhor opção? Como nos certificamos de que o aluno fez a inferência correta?
De acordo com esta modalidade de leitura, para a obtenção apenas do sentido global do texto, sem recurso a dicionários ou a exercícios de explicitação de vocabulário, a informação lexical será captada “de modo natural” durante o processo de exposição a input escrito que a leitura extensiva potencia, independentemente do propósito de reatualizar/retomar essa informação num momento ulterior da aprendizagem. Mas eis alguns dados que põem em causa a eficácia de uma abordagem não estratégica do texto (modificado ou não):
• De uma maneira geral o aprendente tende a ignorar as palavras desconhecidas, fixando-se no esforço de apuramento do sentido da frase/sequência;
• A associação significado-forma da palavra raramente é retida;
• O risco de ocorrência de inferências contextuais erradas é elevado;
• Na maioria das vezes, aquilo que o aprendente consegue apurar por inferência não vai além de um sentido aproximado da palavra (por exemplo, algo negativo ou movimento para a frente).

Novos cursos trimestrais Português Língua Estrangeira: outubro - dezembro 2012

Estão abertas as candidaturas para os cursos A2, B1 e C1 da Ciberescola/Cibercursos. Cada curso corresponde a 36 horas de aulas online, por video-conferência, acrescido do tempo dedicado à realização de tarefas fora das aulas.

A data de início dos cursos é 2 de outubro. A propina é de 200 euros. No final de realização do curso, o aluno recebe um certificado, atestando as competências adquiridas.

Ver toda a informação completa aqui:http://www.cibercursoslp.com/inscricoes.html

Professores de Português nos EUA fazem curso de Verão nos Açores

A Universidade dos Açores recebe, no próximo dia 16 de Julho, um conjunto de doze professores que dão aulas de Língua Portuguesa em diversas instituições de ensino nos EUA. O motivo desta visita é o Curso de Verão organizado pela Fundação Luso-Americana (FLAD) em parceria com a Direcção Regional das Comunidades e a Universidade dos Açores, e que conta com o apoio do Instituto Camões – Coordenação do Ensino de Português nos EUA e da Associação de Professores de Português dos EUA e Canadá. Ler notícia completa aqui.