Portuguese Studies JH, Hispanic Studies SH/JH, European Studies, Major/Minor/Supplementary
Contact Hours
Practical Classes and workshops-30 hours Total: 30 hours
Exclusions
Description
The course involves translation from Portuguese into English, English into Portuguese, writing essays and commentaries in Portuguese, doing aural comprehension work, and work on socio-linguistics and text analysis. Particular attention is paid to modes of address and the language of advertising. Two of the three weekly hours are distributed between a one-hour grammar class and a translation workshop. The third hour in each semester will focus on further developing stategic competence in spoken Portuguese. Students will be required to give presentations on suitable topics using OHPs and slides.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module the student will be able to:
- understand spoken standard Portuguese;
- speak Portuguese fluently;
- write letters, reports and essays in correct Portuguese;
- to understand and develop solutions to advance problems in translation;
- to analyse and translate different texts and different registers into and from Portuguese and English with accuracy and flair.
Assessments: Extended essay/short story in Portuguese: 15%; Oral presentation: 15%; Aural exam: 10%; Oral exam: 10 %; Written exam: 50%
Reassessment: One supplementary exam in August/September
Other
Reading List
Amelia P Hutchinson and Janet Lloyd, Portuguese, An Essential Grammar, London: Routledge, 1996
R.C. Willis, An Essential Course in Modern Portuguese. London: Harrap, 1968
S. Tyson-Ward, Portuguese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar. Chicago: Passport Books, 1997