teaching portuguese as a foreign language online

TEACHING PORTUGUESE AS A FOREIGN
LANGUAGE ONLINE
Profa. Dra. Regiani Aparecida Zacarias
Profa. Dra. Paula Tavares Pinto
Universidade Estadual Paulista
“Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
FAUBAI - 2016
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Introduction
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Moodle Platform
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Developing a Portuguese as a Foreign
Language Online Course.
Outline
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Countries that speak Portuguese:
Country
Population (2014
est.)[1]
More information
-Brazil
202,656,788
Portuguese in Brazil
-Mozambique
24,692,144
Portuguese in
Mozambique
-Angola
19,088,106
Portuguese in Angola
-Portugal
10,813,834
Portuguese in Portugal
-Guinea-Bissau
1,693,398
Portuguese in GuineaBissau
-East Timor
1,201,542
Portuguese in East Timor
Equatorial Guinea
722,254
Portuguese in Equatorial
Guinea
Macau
587,914
Portuguese in Macau
Cape Verde
538,535
Portuguese in Cape
Verde
190,428
Portuguese in São Tomé
and Príncipe
-São Tomé and Príncipe
Total
270,963,252
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244 million Portuguese speakers in the world,
the sixth most spoken language on earth
the fifth most used language on the internet.
◦ 82,5 million internet users speaking Portuguese.
◦ third most used language on social media, such as Facebook
and Twitter (58 million users on Facebook speak
Portuguese and 12% of the tweets are in Portuguese).
◦ the most spoken Language in the Southern Hemisphere
(218 million),
◦ the third most spoken in Europe (more than 10 million)
Portuguese in Numbers
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USA + 10 thousand students enrolled in
Portuguese courses at the universities.
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Annual growth of 10% on the Portuguese
language teaching and learning field.
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In China +15 universities offer Portuguese
courses.
Portuguese Teaching and Learning
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1. Integrate different media formats;
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2. Create a cooperative, interactive and
communicative virtual environment;
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3. Work with the language in its
communicative, cultural and grammatical
components.
Moodle as a Virtual Learning
Environment for foreign language
teaching
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“online courses” =>777,000
536,000 =>Spanish courses
485,000 =>German courses
636,000 => French courses
1.310,000 => Italian courses
3.744,000 => courses of foreign languages (free or private
courses)
“Language without Borders” (ISF)
Ministry of Education (MEC) through the Higher Education
Department (SESu) and the Coordination of Improvement of
Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
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“encourage the learning of English, besides promoting a
comprehensive and structural change in the teaching of
foreign languages in the country’s universities”
Some data
Rozenfeld & Pinto (2015)
which focus? Graduate Students;
which kind of course (blended or online)? Online
course,
which teaching approach? Virtual Communicative
Approach;
Later...
the program Brazilian cultural aspects and
Academic Portuguese ;
course development Language coordinators and
Students of Languages and Teaching.
Planning an Online course
Serafini, 2013
the student must know how to figure out complex
situations:
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collaborate;
be guided into duties and multiple needs;
distinguish the essential from the accessory;
not sink in the profusion of information
use good strategies;
properly manage his time and his agenda.
Student´s autonomy
B1 Level:
Unidade 1: A diversidade cultural no Brasil:
festas populares, sincretismo religioso.
Pronomes pessoais caso reto e oblíquo (átonos e tônicos);
interjeições.
Unidade 2: Gêneros textuais acadêmicos
Regras de acentuação; conjunções (coesão e coerência); regência
verbal.
Unidade 3: Relações de trabalho, de estudos, de amizades.
Locuções adverbiais e demais locuções.
Unidade 4: Eventos acadêmicos: das atividades científicas,
culturais e festivas.
Preposições.
Unidade 5: A comunicação mediada pelo computador.
Estrutura da coordenação.
Unidade 6: Que país é esse?
Estrutura da subordinação; voz passiva.
B1 Program (CEFR)
Consolo & Silva (2015)
202 Foreign Students from Graduate Programs of Humanities,
Math and Sciences => 120 were placed in both levels ( 52 /A2 and
68 /B1).
Placement Test
Placement Test
http://moodle.unesp.br/ava/mod/resource/view.php?id=16120
Course Presentation
Cultural Aspects
Academic Environment
Forum, Wiki, Book, glossary and
Questionnaire
Finding a “república” to live in
Portuguese for Academic Purposes
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Virtual evironment has been broadly used worldwide and,
at UNESP, it has been used to meet foreign students’
needs in our 24 cities (35 campuses);
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Our aim is to teach Portuguese to students before coming
to UNESP;
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Through communicative virtual approach we want to help
to develop students´autonomy.
Final considerations
Thank you!
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