Oral and Written Communication Skills I

Code:

CL026

Acronym:

TCOE1

Instance: 2015/2016 - 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	31	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LA	73	LA - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LLC	122	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	-
LRI	65	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The students should reflect on the formative-cognitive and affective values of the mother tongue - Portuguese - as a way to access thought, world representation and human relations.
The students should develop grammatical, verbal, pragmatic and socio-cultural skills.
The students should acquire communication techniques as well as oral and written skills in order to use them efficiently in different situations

Learning outcomes and competences

The study of different levels of linguistic structure analysis allows a greater capacity of producing an adequate discourse. Studying the oral mode of communication and achiving tasks like reports, commentary narration; presentation; debate will improve discourse competence. Structure of some academic texts: production of written texts such as sumaries, critical revues, comentaries helps production competence and help dominate written expression skils like planning, textualization, revision. Analisys of the elemental maxims of the text: cohesion, connection, coherence in order to achive a better understanding and production of discourse. Discourse modality. Polyphony and the 'layering of voices' in discourse. The acquisition of communication techniques as well as oral and written competence develops grammatical, verbal, pragmatic and socio-cultural skills.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Communicative act - interactive act- Components;
Oral expression:- Specificity of the oral - (bi/unidirectional); spontaneous/prepared speech; Oral communication (bi/unidirectional);
Communic. skills: report/commentary/narration; presentation; debate.
Written expression: Planning, textualization, revision.
Fundamental text principles: coherence, cohesion; Text sequences;
Textual and discursive heterogeneity; polyphony; Utterance of language; discourse modality;
Variation and Language registers (formal, standard, every-day, non-standard in different verbal interactions.
Syntatic structure and textualization: the Complex sentence. Written text and ponctuation.
Lexicon enrichment appropriate to discourse production in oral and written comunication.

Mandatory literature

Adam, Jean-Michel; Linguistique textuelle. Des gentes de discours aux textes, Paris: Nathan, 1999. ISBN: 2-09-190840-1
Adam, Jean-Michel; Éléments de Linguistique Textuelle, Liège, Mardaga, 1990. ISBN: 2-87009-440-X
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
Fiske, J. ; Introdução ao estudo da comunicação, Porto: Asa , 1999
Bassolds, M. & Torrent, A.; Modelos textuales: teoria y práctica, Vic: Eumo Editorial, 1997

Teaching methods and learning activities

In order to develop the capacity to interpret and produce oral and written skils the classes will be student-centered, stimulating the sensibility to understand and produce oral and writen discourse. The students will prepare presentations, discussions and debates in small teams which will be later shared with the class. Other texts of different  types are also prepared in class like letters and e:mails. The students will also write academic texts such as critical appreciations; reports; summaries; synthesis; commentary.
An attempt will be made to favour individual research, critical thinking and problem solving..
Lectures and seminars. Tutorial. Supervision of elaboration of essays.
Distributed evaluation consists of a written essay that can also be presented in the class. It could consist of a critical appreciation of a scientif article. The evaluation also includes a written final exam.

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	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	56,00
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

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the regulations in force.

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese