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- Ensino superior a distância e o desenvolvimento de competências profissionais: uma análise com base nas perceções dos diplomadosPublication . Henriques, Susana; Neves, Claudia; Silva, Ana Paula; Abrantes, Pedro; Bäckström, Bárbara; Falé, Isabel; Jacquinet, Marc; Magano, Olga; Ramos, Maria do RosárioQuem são os estudantes que optam pela Educação Superior a Distância ? Quais as suas expetativas e grau de satisfação com os cursos nesta modalidade ? Qual o impacto do curso na vida profissional e pessoal do estudante da UAb ? O presente artigo centra-se nestas questões, seguindo um enquadramento teórico que mobiliza estudos sobre a procura de respostas para novos públicos e novas necessidades nas sociedades atuais. O desenho metodológico seguiu a aplicação de um questionário, desenhado no âmbito do Observatório dos Percursos Profissionais e de Vida dos Diplomados da Universidade Aberta, aos estudantes que terminaram a licenciatura em 2014 e 2015. Os resultados remetem para uma satisfação global com a realização da licenciatura online, na medida em que revelam conforto no uso da plataforma e reconhecem vantagens no regime de aprendizagem. Destaca-se a valorização do prestígio social associado ao diploma de ensino superior. Concluímos que a pesquisa sobre o fenómeno da empregabilidade no ensino superior precisa de mais desenvolvimento. Os estudantes adultos apresentam um conjunto de necessidades diferenciadas, sobretudo relacionadas com a aquisição de competências para melhorar as suas condições profissionais, de empregabilidade e o desenvolvimento das suas carreiras. Os dados deste estudo reforçam a ideia de educação ao longo da vida associada ao ensino a distância como importante forma de desenvolvimento e aquisição não só de conhecimentos, como também, de competências transversais fundamentais a todos os contextos da vida e para a mobilidade profissional.
- Searching a mixed corpus in the light of the new portuguese orthographic normPublication . Carvalho, Gracinda; Falé, Isabel; Matos, David Martins de; Rocio, VitorA mixed corpus of Portuguese is one in which texts of different origins produce different spelling variants for the same word. A new norm, which will bring together the written texts produced both in Portugal and Brazil, giving then a more uniform orthography, has been effective since 2009, but what happens in the perspective of search, to corpora created before the norm came into practice, or within the transition period? Is the information they contain outdated and worthless? Do they need to be converted to the new norm? In the present work we analyse these questions.
- IDEST: International Database of Emotional Short TextsPublication . Kaakinen, Johanna K.; Werlen, Egon; Kammerer, Yvonne; Acarturk, Cengiz; Aparicio, Xavier; Baccino, Thierry; Ballenghein, Ugo; Bergamin, Per B.; Castells Gómez, Núria; Costa, Armanda; Falé, Isabel; Mégalakaki, Olga; Ruiz Fernandez, SusanaWe introduce a database (IDEST) of 250 short stories rated for valence, arousal, and comprehensibility in two languages. The texts, with a narrative structure telling a story in the first person and controlled for length, were originally written in six different languages (Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish), and rated for arousal, valence, and comprehensibility in the original language. The stories were translated into English, and the same ratings for the English translations were collected via an internet survey tool (N = 573). In addition to the rating data, we also report readability indexes for the original and English texts. The texts have been categorized into different story types based on their emotional arc. The texts score high on comprehensibility and represent a wide range of emotional valence and arousal levels. The comparative analysis of the ratings of the original texts and English translations showed that valence ratings were very similar across languages, whereas correlations between the two pairs of language versions for arousal and comprehensibility were modest. Comprehensibility ratings correlated with only some of the readability indexes. The database is published in osf.io/9tga3, and it is freely available for academic research.
- VocabularyPublication . Falé, Isabel
- Comunicar : tatuagem de afectosPublication . Falé, Isabel; Mântua, Susana; Seara, Isabel
- Categorical perceptionPublication . Falé, Isabel
- Fonética e fonologia do portuguêsPublication . Mateus, Maria Helena Mira; Falé, Isabel; Freitas, Maria JoãoApresenta uma introdução ao estudo da fonética e da fonologia da língua portuguesa, com especial foco na variedade europeia. Com uma vertente claramente pedagógica, o livro aborda conceitos teóricos básicos de fonética e de fonologia, aplicando-os à língua portuguesa.
- Prosodic, syntactic, semantic guidelines for topic structures across domains and corporaPublication . Mata, Ana Isabel; Moniz, Helena; Móia, Telmo; Gonçalves, Anabela; Silva, Fátima; Batista, Fernando; Duarte, Inês; Oliveira, Fátima; Falé, IsabelThis paper presents the annotation guidelines applied to naturally occurring speech, aiming at an integrated account of contrast and parallel structures in European Portuguese. These guidelines were defined to allow for the empirical study of interactions among intonation and syntax-discourse patterns in selected sets of different corpora (monologues and dialogues, by adults and teenagers). In this paper we focus on the multilayer annotation process of left periphery structures by using a small sample of highly spontaneous speech in which the distinct types of topic structures are displayed. The analysis of this sample provides fundamental training and testing material for further application in a wider range of domains and corpora. The annotation process comprises the following time-linked levels (manual and automatic): phone, syllable and word level transcriptions (including co-articulation effects); tonal events and break levels; part-of-speech tagging; syntactic-discourse patterns (construction type; construction position; syntactic function; discourse function), and disfluency events as well. Speech corpora with such a multi-level annotation are a valuable resource to look into grammar module relations in language use from an integrated viewpoint. Such viewpoint is innovative in our language, and has not been often assumed by studies for other languages.
- Transversal competences and employability: the impacts of distance learning university according to graduates’ follow-upPublication . Abrantes, Pedro; Silva, Ana Paula; Bäckström, Bárbara; Neves, Claudia; Falé, Isabel; Jacquinet, Marc; Ramos, Maria do Rosário; Magano, Olga; Henriques, SusanaSince higher education qualifications and digital transition are considered key factors for economic development and individual opportunities, distance learning has been presented as a solution to improve the labor force’s skills and employability. However, such links were seldom studied systematically in specific contexts, and doubts exist regarding online programs. Based on the results of three successive follow-up surveys to the graduates of the Portuguese distance learning public university (Universidade Aberta), from 2011 to 2018 (n = 1358), our article examines the graduates’ perception of acquired transversal competences, in relation to employability and social mobility gains. The statistical analysis points out a positive perception of transversal competences development, especially analytical capacity, autonomy, and communication, although some concerns were raised regarding digital skills, teamwork, job search skills, and social capital. The impacts on employability and socioeconomic mobility are positive for most students, but variable according to analyzed competences, and tend to occur mostly through internal mobility rather than through job search skills or entrepreneurship. Although exploratory, such findings allow some final considerations regarding the effective ability of higher education distance learning to enhance economic growth and employability, through transversal competences, as well as to sketch some suggestions to improve such ability.
- Auditory processing disorder test battery in European Portuguese: development and normative data for pediatric populationPublication . Martins, Jorge Humberto; Alves, Marisa; Andrade, Susana; Falé, Isabel; Teixeira, AntónioThere is an increasing need for state-of-the-art Central Auditory Processing assessment for Portuguese native speakers, applicable as early as possible. As a contribution to answering this need, this paper presents a new battery for Central Auditory Processing assessment for European Portuguese applicable to children aged 5 and above, named BAPA-PE, providing information regarding test selection and development. The battery consists of six behavioral tests: Staggered Spondaic Words (SSW) for European Portuguese, Filtered Speech, Speech in Noise, Detection Interval in Noise, Duration, and Frequency Pattern. The normative data for children aged 5 to 12 are also reported. A sample was obtained of 217 subjects without ear pathology and with typical development. Each age group was composed of at least 30 children. All children were evaluated using pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, impedance, and otoacoustic emissions. Normative scores are reported for each of the six auditory processing tests. The assessment is applicable to young children (aged 5 and 6). The statistical analyses showed significant effects in scores of Age for all tests and of Ear for several tests. The main result from the work presented, the Auditory Processing Assessment Battery—European Portuguese (BAPA-PE), is available for clinical use with normative data. This battery is a new tool for behaviorism assessment of European Portuguese speakers with suspected central auditory pathology and for monitoring the results of auditory training.
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