28718 - Portuguese Language and Culture II

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Course contents

Specific intention:

Study some of the specific pratical cases of the portuguese language as concerning lexical forms and typical cases of orthographic, phonetics, phonology and morfology.

The student must know the grammatical structures and lexical enough to the compreension and production of some easy texts, usuful to the verbal comunication.

 

Verbal morphology:

- Indicativo: Futuro, Condicional.

- Conjuntivo: Presente, Futuro, Imperfeito.

- Gerúndio Simples and Composto.

- Infinitivo Pessoal Simples and Composto.

 

Phonetics:

- the accent (including the brazilian one).

 

Orthography:

- graphic alternation on words: i/e; o/u; j/g; ct/c; c,ç,s or ss; ch/x; s/z.

- graphic accent (including the brazilian one).

- the punctuation.

 

Syntax: 

- indirect speech

- passive form

 

- Grammar:

- relative pronouns.

- indefinitive pronouns.

- the Comparativi and Superlativi form.

 

Lexicon:

- the idiomatic forms, emphatic and typical expressions.

 

Readings/Bibliography

In the school there is a block of copies made by the teacher, that will support the course.

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Novo Português Sem Fronteiras 1, Lidel, Lisboa, ed. 2011, con 2 cd.

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Gramática Ativa I - 3ªed., Lidel, Lisboa, Janeiro 2011.

- Gomes de Pina, Maria da Graça e Gori, Barbara, E agora em português! - nível 2, ed. Loffredo Editore, Napoli, 2010 (only the first six lessons).

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Gramática Activa II, ed. Lidel, Lisboa, last ed.

- the name and the author of the text will be comunicated at the beginning of the course.

 

Other bibliography proposed for individual study:

- Canepàri, Luciano, Pronuncia portoghese per italiani, ed. Aracne, Roma, 2010

- Castanho, José Nicau, Portoghese - esercizi, A. Vallardi,Milano, 1999

- Cunha, Celso e Cintra, Luis F. Lindley, Breve Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, Edições Sá da Costa, 1985, Lisboa.

- Lanciani Giulia e Tavani Giuseppe, Grammatica Portoghese, Edizioni Led, Milano, 1993

- Moutinho, Lurdes de Castro, Uma introdução ao estudo da fonética e fonologia do português, Colecção Plátano Universitária, Lisbona, 2000

- Scribedit, a cura di, Parole per viaggiare Portoghese e Brasiliano, Bologna, ed. Zanichelli, 2012

- Silva, Mendes, Português língua viva, Círculo dos Leitores, Lisboa, 1985

- Terra, Ernani, Curso Prático de Gramática, editora Scipione, São Paulo, 1996

- Teyssier, Paul, História da Língua Portuguesa, Colecção Nova Universidade - Linguística, Edições Sá da Costa, 1982.

- Tocco, Valeria, Breve storia della letteratura portoghese, Carocci editore, Roma, 2011

Teaching methods

Personal lessons, several exercises in class and as homework.

Assessment methods

Final written and oral examination.

The final written examination will be composed by one text with comprehension questions; several grammatical esercices to fill, change or multiple choise; one composition.

The oral examination will be composed by a personal presentation of a portuguese text.

Teaching tools

Portuguese books, grammars, dictionnary, exercise book prepared by the teacher

Cd rom

Dvd

Cassettes

Film video

Office hours

See the website of Anabela Cristina Costa Da Silva Ferreira