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The aim of the Curricular Unit is to provide students with beginner competence in the Portuguese Language, becoming familiar with the main grammar issues and lexicology, thus being provided with the basic communication skills of this Latin-based language. Our main language instruction objective is establishing a language classroom context like real communication contexts. This aim is achieved by following closely the principles of accessibility, consistency, careful selection of teaching units, gradual transition from simple to more complex linguistic structures, as well as the application of the communicative situation as a means of acquiring the peculiarities of speech pragmatics. The learning process will be eased by real visits to the market, train/bus station, supermarkets, and cafés, where students will be encouraged to use their newly acquired knowledge and originate dialogues and ask questions to passers-by and tourist guides. Thus, they will learn how to elicit information from a real-life conversation. Foreign students will learn the basic Portuguese language structure, focusing on comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Interactive methods with communication purposes will be used – group work, brainstorming, games, as well as traditional pedagogic methods – discussion, individual work, work with a textbook, etc., which will contribute to the quicker learning of the language and the development of effective linguistic and communication competences of the students. Thus, communicative competence in this narrower sense has the following components: linguistic competencies; sociolinguistic and (inter) cultural competencies; and, whenever possible, pragmatic competencies.
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