Writing instruction according to public-school Portuguese teachers in Niterói, Brazil: A disparity between theory and practice by Jéssica do Nascimento Rodrigues, Mary Rangel

“…</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Portuguese language teaching, written production, public school.…”
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Ratio Legis on the Right to Language in the Education System in Timor Leste by Antonino Pedro Marsal, Sukardi Sukardi

“…Secondly, use of Portuguese language in the education system in East Timor to human rights?. …”
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The teacher’s work with orthography in a Support Classroom by Cristiane Malinoski Pianaro Angelo, Renilson José Menegassi

“…<p>This paper discusses the teacher’s work with orthography in a Support Classroom for Portuguese Language Learning (SAAPL, in Portuguese) – 6th grade of basic schooling in the South-Central region of Paraná State. …”
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Politeness and verbal language education: reflections on racing comunicativa, interpersonal game and normativity by Leonor Lopes Fávero, Maria Lúcia C. V. O. Andrade

“…From a practical perspective, this chapter seeks to reflect on the need to incorporate verbal politeness in the teaching of the Portuguese language, both oral and written modes, considering how the interpersonal interaction in various social contexts is established. …”
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Lexicografia e ensino: reflexões necessárias by Rejane Centurion, Milena Borges de Moraes

“…As a result, we can state that its necessary the establishment of debates about lexicography at school and in training courses and changes in the implementation of activities in didactic material targeted to Portuguese language lessons.<br /> <strong>Keywords: </strong>Lexicography; dictionaries; education; Portuguese language; didactic material.…”
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Production of written texts in literacy: A study in two public schools located in socially vulnerable territories by Gleice Lima da Fonseca, Claudia Lemos Vóvio

“…The analysis of the documental source was articulated with registries of participant observation in seven Portuguese Language classes of the third year of the Fundamental level in 2014, focusing on tasks and on the writing of texts by students. …”
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When language barriers engenders human rights violations: which language policies the Brazilian State is adopting in order to guarantee access to basic public services for immigran... by Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Julia Izabelle da Silva

“…In this way, it is the voluntary entities that have assumed the role of producing policies both for the offering of interpreters and for teaching the Portuguese language. The lack of action by the State reveals, in this sense, an ideological orientation that either denies the presence of the languages of the immigrants or sees this diversity as a problem to be overcome by teaching the Portuguese language. ---   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n42a909…”
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Relation between emotional intelligence and school performance in children of the 1st cycle of primary school of RAM by Elisabete Porto Silva, Glória Franco

“…The instruments used were: A demographic and educational survey where they gathered, in addition to the socio-demographic data, academic performance data as: retention, the notes of the Portuguese language, Mathematics, the Study of the Middle note of calibration tests: Portuguese language and Mathematics; and the Emotional Intelligence survey of Bar-On (Candeias Rebocho, 2007, Candeias et al., 2008). …”
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Introduction by Anabela Rato, Suzi Lima

“… This thematic volume Experimental Linguistics and Portuguese Language Varieties is dedicated to research that explores the interaction between linguistic theories and experimental methods in the areas of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. …”
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Instruments used to measure the quality of life related to oral health: integrated review by Marcela Vieira CALMON, Deise Berger VELTEN, Ana Paula Santana Coelho ALMEIDA, Franciele Marabotti Costa LEITE, Maria Helena Monteiro de Barros MIOTTO

“…Subsequently, the data related to the translation and cultural adaptation processes for the Portuguese language of Brazil were collected in order to evaluate the psychometric properties of each study. …”
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Visões da língua(gem) em comentários sobre internetês não é língua portuguesa by Fabiana Komesu

“…The hypothesis is that those students who think that internetês não é língua portuguesa conceive portuguese language as a set of grammatical rules which must be followed whatever the circumstances might be, especially concerning written language. …”
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Assessing higher education students’ critical thinking with the PENCRISAL test - Portuguese short version: a psychometric study by Silvia F. Rivas, Amanda Franco, Rui Marques Vieira, Leandro S. Almeida, Carlos Saiz

“…Moreover, the number of instruments that are validated to assess critical thinking in the Portuguese language and culture are scarce. We present the validation psychometric study of the PENCRISAL test (short version) to the Portuguese language, a critical thinking assessment test for higher education students, designed and validated in Spain (full and short version), which presents adequate reliability and validity psychometric characteristics to assess key-dimensions of critical thinking. …”
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Conversation Analysis and Orality in Written Texts by Luiz Antônio da Silva

“…After several years of Marcuschi´s findings (1977), textbook authors, teachers, researchers and those responsible for the Portuguese language teaching have another theoretical approach. …”
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Assessment voice synthesizers for reading in digital books by Sérvulo Fernandes da Silva Neto, Wagner Junqueira de Araújo

“…In the studied universe contacted that many synthesizers simply cannot be used because they did not support the Portuguese language.…”
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Revisiting linguistic awareness: Appropriation of the concept by future teachers of Portuguese by Maria Helena Serra Ançã

“…<p>This paper draws attention to the importance of the ability to reflect on the Portuguese language (LP), specifically in the case of future teachers of Portuguese. …”
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Neuropathic pain evaluation tools by Fabiola Dach Eckeli, Rosimary Amorim Teixeira, Áquila Lopes Gouvêa

“…Some of these tools were translated and validated for the Brazilian Portuguese language.…”
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A “Última flor do Lácio” entre portugueses e brasileiros by Regina Zilberman

“…Historians of Portuguese language and literature claimed the particularity of their idiom, distinguishing it from the Spanish, in order to assure the national literary identity. …”
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O programa de Literatura Portuguesa do ensino secundário: O último reduto? by António Branco

“…The syllabus of the new subject of Portuguese Literature in secondary schools contrasts vividly with that of Portuguese Language in several respects. Unlike the latter, it cherishes the literary text and its teaching, and suggests methodologies in keeping with aesthetic learning process, without effacing the knowledge fostered by traditional literary studies. …”
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Domain Adaptation Speech-to-Text for Low-Resource European Portuguese Using Deep Learning by Eduardo Medeiros, Leonel Corado, Luís Rato, Paulo Quaresma, Pedro Salgueiro

“…This paper presents a deep learning ASR system optimization and evaluation for the European Portuguese language. We present a pipeline composed of several stages for data acquisition, analysis, pre-processing, model creation, and evaluation. …”
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Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian version of the Nonarthritic Hip Score by Leticia Nunes Carreras Del Castillo, Gustavo Leporace, Themis Moura Cardinot, Roger Abramino Levy, Liszt Palmeira de Oliveira

“…The aims of this study were to translate this questionnaire into the Brazilian Portuguese language, to adapt it to Brazilian culture and to validate it. …”
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