Oral and Written Communication Skills I

Code:

CL026

Acronym:

TCOE1

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	27	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LA	61	LA - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LLC	133	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	-
LRI	49	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To reflect on the formative-cognitive and affective values of the mother tongue (understand the Portuguese language as a way of accessing other ways of thinking and representing the world, and human relations);
- To develop grammatical, verbal and socio-cultural skills;
- To acquire communication techniques and oral/written skills, and use them efficiently in different contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

Capacity to recognise the formative-cognitive and affective values of the mother tongue - Portuguese - as a way to access thought, world representation and human relations.

-To develop grammatical, discourse, pragmatic and socio-cultural skills;
- To acquire communication techniques as well as oral and written skills in order to use them efficiently in different contexts.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Communication:
- Communicative act
- interactive act
- Components of the communicative act
- Conditionig factors of the communicative act
- The functions of communication
- Semiotic resources: verbal, para-verbal and non-verbal - Interlocutory and monolucotory communication Communication and oral expression:
- Specificity of the oral mode (co-presence of the speakers; strong contextual dependency; mobilising different types of semiotic elements)
- From spontaneous speech to prepared speech
- Some communication skills: commentary; presentation/explanation; discussion;
Communication and written expression:
- Specificity of the written expression: stages of the editing process: planning, textualisation, revision
- Elemental maxims of the text: cohesion, connection, coherence
- Structure of some academic texts: critical appreciation; report; summary; synthesis; commentary; dissertation.
Text and discourse:
- The variety and functionality of discourse genres
- Compositional heterogeneity of texts
- Textual sequences: narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory
- Proposition vs. Sentence - Utterance in language - direct, deferred, reported (reported speech – direct, free direct, indirect, free indirect, evoked, hybrid, narrated)
- Discourse modality (modalising the utterance and modalising the proposition; explicit/implicit subjectivity; evaluative subjectivity- quantitative, qualitative, axiological; logical subjectivity; affective subjectivity)
- Diatopic or regional variation, diastratic or social variation, diphasic or situational variation - varieties of language; Language registers (formal, standard, everyday, non-standard)
Syntax:
- simple sentence (direct order, inversion, ellipsis)
- complex sentence (coordination and subordination)
- integrated terms in the clause - regular and irregular verbs (tense, mood, voice- their significance)
- punctuation
Morphology:
- word and morpheme
- grammatical and lexical morphemes
- word formation (compounding and affixation – suffixation and prefixation)
Lexicology:
- Enriching the lexicon – conversion or improper derivation, acronyms, initials, abbreviations, amalgamation, foreign loans, foreign inflected words, metaphorical extension
- Lexical relations- antonymy, synonymy, hyperonymy, hyponymy, homonymy, metonymy, polysemy.

Mandatory literature

Adam, Jean-Michel; Linguistique textuelle. Des gentes de discours aux textes, Paris: Nathan, 1999. ISBN: 2-09-190840-1
Adam, Jean-Michel; Les textes: types et prototypes, Paris: Nathan, 1992
Adam, Jean-Michel; Éléments de Linguistique Textuelle, Liège, Mardaga, 1990. ISBN: 2-87009-440-X
Bassolds, M. e Torrent, A.; Modelos textuales: teoria y práctica, 1997
Cintra, L. e Cunha, C.; Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, Lisboa: Sá da Costa, 1984
Figueiredo, O. e Figueiredo, E.; Dicionário Prático para o Estudo do Português, Porto: Asa , 2003
Mateus, M.H.M. et al.; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Caminho, 2003. ISBN: 972-21-0445-4
Vilela, M.; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Coimbra: Almedina, 2002

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository theoretical classes; Practical classes with the support of an electronic learning platform (e-learning) that will allow students to apply and assess their knowledge throughout the semester; Guiding the students in small assignments in which they will explore the written and oral expression in Portuguese.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	52,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law. Achieving a positive grade in the final exam and in distributed assessment.

Calculation formula of final grade

To be established with the students at the beginning of the semester, taking into consideration the FLUP regulations in force.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the regulations in force.

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese