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Projeto Para O Instituto De Linguagem E Transculturalidade
A área de inglês, devido a sua prioridade, contará com três coordenações: uma coordenação
dos cursos gerais com foco nas quatro habilidades (ler, escrever, ouvir e falar), uma
coordenação dos cursos de letramento acadêmico para capacitação dos alunos e docentes
para a escrita acadêmica em inglês com objetivos para a publicação ou não, uma coordenação
de todos os cursos de inglês ofertados pelo Instituto na modalidade a distância.
Transcultural Engagements
This document outlines a course structure for the General English course to be offered in part
through distance learning, via the moodle virtual learning environment.
The course Transcultural Engagements is designed on the following basis:
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It is an intermediate-level course in English
It focuses on the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The skills
will be taught through a series of language tasks that are relevant to developing
generic graduate attributes, e.g. problem-based learning, presentation and discussion
skills, decision-making activities, data gathering and critical analysis.
There will be additional language practice activities available, with a focus on
intermediate-level grammar instruction, and lexis that corpus-based studies have
shown to be widely used across academic disciplines.
The topics are designed to address issues generally relevant to graduates at a Brazilian
University of high international standing. The topics have been chosen to stimulate
creative and ethical reasoning, in alignment with international research on graduate
attributes.
Topics
Each topic forms the basis of a unit of study, including:
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Reading and listening passages
Focus on intermediate grammar and general academic vocabulary
Discussion and presentation activities
Generic writing skills: eg reports, summaries, reviews, brief essays
Extension activities: project work, practical ethnographies
Online exchanges
Two sample units are shown on Moodle. Moodle also has a set of resources for language
reference and further study.
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1. The Englishing of Brazil
a. English as an international language
b. The use of English in Brazil
2. Ethics and healthcare
a. The trade in organs for transplant
b. The qualities of a good healthcare professional
3. Migration
a. Tan Lee’s story
b. Citizenship issues?
c. GRAMNET text?
d. Cuban doctors in Brazil
4. Violence and Human Rights
a. Amnesty international: violence against women
b. Is Violence a Disease?
c. Prisons?
5. The lived environment
a. International standards of ethical architecture
b. Architecture for the ears
c. Public housing in Sao Paulo
d. Hello, we have to live here?
6. The connected world
a. The rise of social networking
b. Facebook revolutions (Arab springs?)
c. Netiquette
7. Corruption
a. Corruption in public life
b. Ways of combating corruption
c. Corruption around the world
8. The exchange experience
a. Student exchanges abroad
b. Broadening or narrowing the mind?
9. Visual literacy
a. Understanding visual composition
b. Advertising and high art
c. Applied art: learning to look in medicine, engineering and architecture
10. Students on the streets
a. A cross-cultural history of student protests
b. Student protests in Brazil
11. Tourism & Hospitality
a. Are you an ethical tourist?
b. Dealing with customer complaints
c. First impressions of Brazil
12. Politics
a. Student political societies
b. How to climb the political ladder in Brazil
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13. Marketing
a. Soft marketing skills
b. Creating a brand identity
14. Intellectual Property
a. Copyright
b. Plagiarism
c. FAPESP Manual on plagiarism
15. Charitable work
a. The case for and against charities
b. A Brazilian case study
16. Bread and circuses?
a. Football in Brazil
b. Sport and education
Generic Graduate Attributes/Skills
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Listening, note-taking
Speaking: presenting and discussing
Writing: summarizing, planning
Reading: focus on structure/focus on content
Making connections
General Academic Vocabulary
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