Applied Linguístics

Na Grã-Bretanha, Malcom Coulthard atua como conselheiro da corte britânica na cidade de Birmingham, onde reside e leciona. O professor é membro-fundador da Associação Internacional de Lingüística Forense (International Association of Forensic Linguistics), e tem trabalhado oficialmente como perito legal em vários casos de perícia lingüística e plágio em tribunais na Inglaterra. Atualmente leciona na Aston University onde tive a honra de ser sua aluna num curso de aperfeiçoamento4. 1. Professora

in which English reaches an increasing number of people around the world, especially among those who use it as an international language, which imposes the need to rethink the cultural approach adopted in its teaching. Works in areas such as applied linguistics, education, social sciences show us that language, thought as a dialogically constituted social process, can never be considered separated from culture and this one, even though conceived in different ways throughout history, has…

other subjects have dealt with relevance, but none as directly and extensively as logic and philosophy. These subjects are sociology, in the sociology of knowledge; psychology, in the studies of perception, learning, and capacity of memory; and linguistics, in the studies of semantics and pragmatics. It has remained for information science to struggle with relevance in relation to communication and to emerge as the third subject that directly contributed to the thinking on that so…

30 D e p o i m e n t o S e m Med o (?) • Warren, A. R., Nunez, N., Keeney, J. M., Buck, J. A., & Smith, B. (2002). The believability of children and their interviewers’ hearsay testimony: When less is more. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 846-857. • Westcott, H., Davies, G., & Clifford, B. (1991). Adults’ perceptions of children’s videotaped truthful and deceptive statements. Children and Society, 5, 123-135 • Wolfteich, P., & Loggins, B. (2007).…

advance through a ‘return’ to what remains valuable, although that ‘return’ is no longer innocent. I am thinking here of pleas that we return to a focus on everyday lived experience or material realities instead of remaining mired in a conceptual or linguistic realm deemed to have no value outside of the academy (Jackson, 2001; Nussbaum, 1999). The key arenas for feminist theory where this ‘return’ is pivotal are debates about the political versus the cultural that dominated the mid-late…

Aprendizagem, Vocabulário. 8 ABSTRACT Idioms are part of a group´s daily life. According with Ortiz Álvarez (2011) through them we can describe the colors of a people. The learning strategies are used in the acquisition of any knowledge being linguistic or not. Therefore, this study aims to identify which are the learning strategies the mainly methods used by a specific group of students in the fixation of this peculiars marks of the language. To that end, we pass through…

(1999), “Cognitive-cooperative strategies in writing classroom”, In Pinto, G. M., Veloso, J. and Maia, B. (eds.), Psycholinguistics on the Threshold of the Year 2000: Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of International Society of Applied Linguistics. Porto, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. BRAGA, F. (coord) (2004). Planificação: novos papéis, novos modelos. Porto, Edições Asa. CAMPOS, G. (2005). “Aperfeiçoamento de texto: Contributo de mecanismos…

tested at different steps of fresh-cut kiwifruit production process. Fruit maturity stage was found to be a key factor determining both fruit ability for minimal processing and the suitable treatment selection for appliance. Mild heat treatments, when applied to whole fruit, were efficient in preserving firmness of ready-to-eat kiwifruit during storage, but fruits must be at a firm ripe stage. Heat treatment conditions that produce better results were 45 ºC/25 min. The beneficial effect…

development and behavior (Vol. 10), New York: Academic Press, 1975. ______. Metacognitive development and reading. In: SPIRO, R. J.; BRUCE, B. C.; BREWER, W. F. Theoretical issues in reading comprehension: perspectives from cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, and Education. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1980. p. 453-481. BROWN, A. L.; CAMPIONE, J. C. Guided discovery in a community of learners. In: MCGILLY, K. Classroom lessons: integrating cognitive theory and…

Also in this chapter we seek to discuss the importance of feminine press in the lives of women starting off from the important changes that took place in the world that directly influence the role of women in society, and the way the female press applied these transformations. In the third, and final, chapter we talk about the beginning of the female magazines, giving special attention to Vogue magazine. The profile of readers of is drawn, in order to define the bases of the…