International Conference – Memorialist Discourses and the Building of History

The University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Portuguese and Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) will hold the International Conference on ‘Memorialist Discourses and the Building of History (Africa and Macau)’ from 25 October to 28 October. The conference will be focused on theoretical and epistemological questions related to memoirs, perceived as ‘sites of nation [...]

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Some Projects in progress at the Department of Portuguese

THE LITERATURE OF MACAU IN PORTUGUESE: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH (MYRG2014-00016-FAH) PI: Prof. Fernanda Gil Costa Funding: University of Macau   INTERCULTURAL DEMANDS FOR THE CURRICULAR DEVELOPMENT OF PORTUGUESE FL (MYRG2016-00098-FAH) PI: Prof. Fernanda Gil Costa Funding: University of Macau   MEMORIALIST DISCOURSE AND THE BUILDING OF HISTORY – THE CASE OF MACAO (SRG2015-00003-FAH) PI: Prof. [...]

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AuTema-Dis II

Researchers Ana Luísa Varani Leal Márcia Schmaltz Chao Chi Meng Chiu Lai Fan Luís Felipe Rodrigues Project In Computational Linguistics, work on textual analysis mainly attempts to explain behaviors and relations of linguistic components, properly identified in the textual structure. Such research is especially related to morphological and syntactic structures. Little research has focused on [...]

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History of Portuguese in overseas territories

Researchers Raimundo Enedino dos Santos Project The project aims to analyze and compare data from several regions and synchronic states of the Portuguese Language, in order to detect innovation or conservation of the language status, as well as observe potential factors which could interfere with the language course. Since one does not avail of oral [...]

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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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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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Call for papers

Call for papers The Revista de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola (RCBLPE), an e-journal of the Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola hosted by the Research Institute for Luso-Asian Studies, welcomes submissions of papers on any aspect of Iberian-based Pidgins and Creole languages. Detailed submission instructions can be found on [...]

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