Construction of Chinese primary students’ identities on second language acquisition: The importance of teacher’s discourse in classrooms of Portuguese as a Foreign Language

Researchers Alan N. Baxter (supervisor) Roberval Teixeira e Silva (co-supervisor) Ricardo Moutinho Rodrigues da Silva (doctoral candidate) Project In daily social interaction, we are often negotiating and constructing our identities. Through the information that we give and receive, we can adopt an appropriated behavior in front of the interactants and also create expectations according to [...]

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From Comprehension to Production: the Process of Acquisition of the Perfective/Imperfective Contrast in Portuguese as L2

Researchers Custódio Martins Alan N. Baxter Project The current research proposal draws on the conclusions of previous studies (Noyau 2002) on the acquisition of romance languages tense and aspect systems that report learners show a greater accuracy in the acquisition of the perfective rather than of the imperfective. These findings have been supported by our [...]

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Construction of Chinese primary students’ identities on second language acquisition: The importance of teacher’s discourse in classrooms of Portuguese as a Foreign Language

Researchers Alan N. Baxter (supervisor) Roberval Teixeira e Silva (co-supervisor) Ricardo Moutinho Rodrigues da Silva (doctoral candidate) Project In daily social interaction, we are often negotiating and constructing our identities. Through the information that we give and receive, we can adopt an appropriated behavior in front of the interactants and also create expectations according to [...]

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