This research, intitled Designation and Argumentation in an Injury Process, is directed to an analysis of the argumentative movements in a process characterized as injury in which the designations trim diferent discursive ...

English language teaching demands preparation of critical and reflective professionals capable of developing a teaching practice that could enhance the language learning process. For this reason, it is necessary that Teacher ...

This study approaches the present perfect simple (PP) in English, a verb structure that does not have a semantic equivalent in Brazilian Portuguese language. This fact brings out teaching and learning issues that one ...

In a historical overview of foreign language (FL) teaching, a pragmatic change can be observed starting in the 1970s, in which the emotional and affective aspects of the learners take on a relevant position. This change ...

The washback effect of an assessment is a redirecting element not only on teaching and learning process, but on most student s and teacher s actions, manners, beliefs and perceptions inside and outside the classroom, ...

This dissertation presents the results of an investigation about the consciousness development of pre-service EFL teachers, throughout their first year, that learning the language as prospective teachers is different from ...

The work presented in the dissertation focuses on the study and validation of linguistic theories so as to improve reference cohesion in Automatic Summarization systems, which with the advent of the Internet have received ...

This work is developed with the perspective theory and methodology of the Semantics of happening and has the objective to understand how to work the designation of language, more specificaly, to analyze how to work to the ...

There are several factors which interfere in foreign language learning. Among them, there are the learning styles, which comprise the cognitive and affective domains. The intrinsic side of the affective domain, which is ...