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- Cultural representations in foreign language education: a study on chinese learners of PortuguesePublication . Castelo, Adelina; Xavier, Lola Geraldes; Rouxinol, CláudiaStudying a foreign language is strongly associated with learning the target culture(s), developing representations of the foreign language realities, and acquiring interculturality. A pilot study conducted over a 4-year bachelor’s degree program in Portuguese as a Foreign Language aimed at understanding the cultural representations of Portuguese-speaking realities by Chinese students and how they evolved. Results show that: the foreign culture representations only slightly change over the 4 years; the mobility programs’ destination greatly influences representations of the host country; the students’ passivity causes superficial and school-based cultural representations of the target cultures, countries, and their inhabitants. These results have several pedagogical implications concerning the mobility programs’ preparation and the intercultural approach in the classroom.
- Reflexões sobre os usos do portuguêsPublication . Castelo, AdelinaSão apresentadas reflexões e opiniões sobre os usos atuais da língua portuguesa, baseados na experiência de professora de Português e linguista, bem como em alguns conceitos linguísticos indispensáveis para observar a situação de forma crítica.
- Word stress in Portuguese as a Foreign Language: a pilot-study and its pedagogical implicationsPublication . Castelo, AdelinaA few studies mention difficulties in word stress performance in Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL), namely among Chinese-speaking learners. However, empirical studies on this topic are scarce. Consequently, this pilot study aims at (i) gaining a better understanding of the performance in word stress production and perception by Chinese learners of PFL and (ii) drawing the relevant pedagogical implications for adjusted pronunciation teaching practices. This classroom study was conducted in a Language Lab course and involved 12 participants: Chinese students majoring in Portuguese Language who had started learning the language six months earlier. Two tests were administered: Test 1 – discrimination of word/sentence pairs differing in one word stress position and prepared oral reading of a short text; Test 2 – discrimination of word/sentence pairs differing in one word stress position and unrehearsed oral reading of a short text. The texts were comparable in terms of extension, theme, vocabulary, grammar complexity and word stress patterns. The main findings include a statistically significant difference in the accuracy rates of rehearsed and unrehearsed reading, and the impact of linguistic variables like word size, stress pattern and ‘spelling-to-stress’ rule on the rates of identified errors. The pedagogical implications of these results are also presented.