Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Specialized Seminar in Foreign Languages Teaching

Code

73217125

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Ana Alexandra Matos, Carlos Ceia, Clarisse Costa Afonso

Weekly hours

2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To develop competencies in scientific research allowing the formal production of a PhD thesis in in Foreign Languages Teaching ;
- To master the methodology of advanced scientific research in Foreign Languages Teaching in the area of the target language;
- To be able to write an advanced research project in Foreign Languages Teaching.

Prerequisites

Subject matter

- The preparation of a doctoral thesis on Foreign Languages Teaching: methods, practices, resources and their assessment.
- The writing of an advanced research project in the area of Foreign Languages, in the specificity of the target language.

Bibliography

- Ceia, C. (2012). Normas para Apresentação de Trabalhos Científicos (9ª ed. revista ed.). Lisboa: Presença.
- Ceia, C. (2013). Advanced Research Projects in the Humanities: New Trends on Literature, Languages, and Linguistics Studies\". Sino-US English Teaching, 10, pp. 903-913. doi:ISSN 1539-8072; online: ISSN 1935-9675
- Michel Caillot (2007). “The Building of a New Academic Field: the case of French didactiques”, European Educational Research Journal, Volume 6, Number 2.
- Peter Uwe Hohendahl (2000)., “After Three Decades of Crisis: What Is the Purpose of a PhD Program in Foreign Languages?”, PMLA, Vol. 115, Nº 5.

Teaching method

Apresentação de um ensaio de investigação já estruturado em forma de futura tese.

Evaluation method

Presentation of a research paper towards the future PhD thesis.

Courses