These days, organized by the FOCO-UNTL project and in cooperation with the Portuguese Embassy in Dili, include several workshops and discussions on various topics, including the general situation of teaching Portuguese in Timor-Leste.
“Reading and preparing readers is an increasingly challenging task for students and teachers, and difficulties with reading and effective communication are a reality in many academic and professional contexts, it is hoped that research in this area can contribute to new knowledge, methods and practices. for more effective teaching of the Portuguese language,” the organizers said in a note sent to Lusa.
From October 19 to 21, professionals, faculty and students will gather in an initiative involving the UNTL Graduate and Research Department and the Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities, which will take place on the UNTL “campus” and the Portuguese Cultural Center.
“At a time when research in a wide variety of cultural and social contexts is revealing the relationship between reading skills and the development of linguistic and communicative competencies, this edition of the conferences is expected to provide an opportunity to reflect on the relationships that are being established between literature, reading and pedagogical practice. in the process of teaching and learning the Portuguese language,” the organizers emphasize.
“Thinking of the Portuguese language and its teaching in Timor, in Portuguese-speaking countries, in a world in a context in which the classroom is an increasingly multilingual and multicultural space populated by diverse technological knowledge, and where the role of literature and reading is often questioned, is a serious problem facing researchers,” they cite.
The conference aims, among other things, at “disclosing the monographic works done by the finalist students, presenting messages or posters within certain axes, and exchanging initiatives and projects carried out or being carried out in the field of the Portuguese language”.
It aims to “promote a multiple space for the dissemination of knowledge and discussions in didactics, linguistics, digital education, culture and literature in Portuguese”.
Among the topics of the three-day program are presentations on strategies for motivating reading, promoting reading and writing in preschool education, learning Portuguese in the context of a non-native language or as a foreign language.
Distance learning, digital education, translations, the analysis of the works of the main Timorese writer Luis Cardoso, the promotion of learning in science, pedagogy, poetry, grammar and literature are other topics.
