Text, grammar and Portuguese teaching: a teacher training project (Cancelled)
Submitted by:
Filomena B. Viegas
Abstract:
Keywords: teacher training; language teaching; textual linguistics.
This is a project from Associação de Professores de Português (APP), based on the theoretical framework of language teaching, semantics and textual linguistics applied to literary texts. Beginning in 2014, it was developed as a training course for Portuguese teachers with an action research methodology using communication and information technologies. The project integrated teachers with classes belonging to basic education (three cycles), from which resulted the publication of an e-book, (http://appform.pt/initium/tgep), including a training support manual.
Through teachers training, the project aims to respond to students' difficulties in issues of textual cohesion and coherence, explicitly assessed by the criteria for classifying written expression of Portuguese exams.
There will be a presentation of students results based on experimental and control groups, in a set of five semi-structured exercises (Rosenshine, B. & Stevens, R. 1986) about reading tasks included in two diagnostic tests comprising of specific aspects of textual cohesion and coherence, namely anaphoric processes, use of sentence connectors and principles of non-contradiction, non-tautology and relevance, (Fonseca, J. 1992; Lopes, AC & Carapinha, C. 2013).
It seeks to relate the results obtained in diagnostic tests with the new phase of the project, to be started in January 2017, which will mainly include classroom supervision, with the application of quantitative and qualitative instruments, designed around the actors, process, products and results (Roldão, M.C. 2003; Korthagen, F.A.J. 2010).