Oral and Written Communication Skills I

Code:

CL026

Acronym:

TCOE1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Linguistics - Portuguese

Instance: 2021/2022 - 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	28	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LA	93	LA - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
LLC	138	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	1	-	6	-
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	1	-	6	-
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	1	-	6	-
LRI	91	LRI - Study Plan	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 analysis of the components of the communicative act and of different levels of linguistic structure allows studentss to acquire a greater capacity of producing an adequate discourse.
The study of the mode of oral communication with practical work on forms of communication such as presentation / exhibition and debate facilitates the mastery of the discourse itself. The work with forms of written discourse such as synthesis, summary, comment, and critical review, reinforces the production competence and the mastery of the stages of planning, textualization and revision. The analysis of aspects of textual structuring, such as cohesion and coherence, leads to a better understanding of the texts and awakens sensitivity to aspects of compositional heterogeneity, discourse modality and polyphony (the 'layering of voices' in discourse), also reinforcing the competence of production.
The theoretical and practical study carried out on communication and textual construction involves the acquisition of communication techniques as well as oral and written competence and develops grammatical, verbal,  pragmatic and sociocultural skills.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Program

Communicative act - interactive act. Components of the communicative act. Interlocutive and monolocutive communication.
Oral expression: Specificity of the oral mode. Spontaneous discourse and prepared speech.  Some techniques of oral communication: report; presentation; debate.
Written expression: planification; textualization; revision.
Constitutive principles of the text: textuality – cohesion, connection, coherence. 
The discursive genres. The compositional heterogeneity of texts. Polyphony. Textual sequences: narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explicative. 
Enunciation in language; modalization of discourse.
Diatopic, diastratic and diaphasic variation. The adequacy of registers and varieties of language to different situations of verbal interaction. 
The syntactic structuring of statements: the elaboration of texts - the complex sentence. Written expression and punctuation.
The enrichment of lexicon appropriate to the production of discourse in different situations of written and oral communication.

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
Duarte, I.; Língua Portuguesa – Instrumentos de Análise, Universidade Aberta, Lisboa, 2000. ISBN: ISBN: 9789726742975
Mateus, M.H.; Cardeira, E.; Norma e Variação, Caminho, 2007. ISBN: ISBN 9789722119535
Marcuschi, L.A.; Produção Textual, Análise de Gêneros e Compreensão, Parábola Editorial, São Paulo, 2008
Bronckart, J.P. ; Atividade de linguagem, textos e discursos, EDUC São Paulo (Trad.), 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

To develop the competence of producing and interpreting written and oral discourse, classes will be student-centered  trying to stimulate individual production, critical thinking and problem solving. Students prepare, in small work groups, oral discourse such as presentations, discussions and debates later held in plenary session.
Students will prepare, in small work groups, oral discourse such as presentations, discussions and debates later held in plenary session. Written texts will also be prepared in class, such as summaries, comments and letters and electronic messages of varying typology with different parameters of verbal interaction. The students will also write academic texts such as critical appreciations; reports; summaries; synthesis; commentary.
There will be attempts to favour individual research, critical thinking and problem solving.
In the orientation classes for the realization of written texts, there will be a critical review that may later constitute individual work as part of the distributed evaluation.
This assessment will consist of an individual assignment on a point in the program chosen by each student. There may be an oral presentation of the work. The evaluation also includes the 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

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Internship work/project

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Classification improvement

Only the exam can be object of a retake.

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese