Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Depto. de Letras, Programa de Inglês No. de Identificação da Disciplina:

Centro de Artes e Comunicação Professor: Dr. João Sedycias Estratégias Leitura/Compreensão Inglês

Home Page da Disciplina

“Leitura e Compreensão de Textos em Inglês”

1. Plano de Ensino - Informação sobre a disciplina (i.e., descrição da disciplina, cronograma das tarefas, avaliação e bibliografia), com uma listagem detalhada dos tópicos a serem abordados durante o semestre.

Material Adicional:

Obs: Os tópicos abordados abaixo foram elaborados para atender as necessidades dos alunos que fazem parte deste curso. Estes tópicos foram escolhidos e pesquisados em resposta às necessidades dos alunos e de acordo com o que os mesmos almejan obter deste curso.

Além das páginas designadas abaixo, sugiro que vocês visitem outra página no meu web site que contém informação adicional sobre os recursos na Internet para professores e alunos de inglês. O endereço dessa página é http://www.sedycias.com/resource1.htm

Artigos sobre o Ensino Instrumental de Línguas Estrangeiras – Os artigos disponibilizados abaixo tratam de vários aspectos relacionados com o ensino instrumental de línguas estrangeiras, tais como a definição operacional do termo “instrumental,” origem desse formato de ensino, variações entre a modalidade brasileira e a norte-americana e européia, definição de termos essenciais (ex. palavras de função, palavras de conteúdo), etc.

1. O que é inglês instrumental?
2. Gramática Instrumental da Língua Inglesa
3. Aprendendo a Ler na Rede: A Construção de Material Didático para Aprendizagem Autônoma de Leitura em Inglês
4. Proposta de Curso de Inglês Instrumental Aplicado a Cursos de Graduação em Engenharia
5. Ensino de Leitura em Língua Inglesa e Análise do Discurso: Ponderações e Propostas
6. A Reconstrução da Torre de Babel
7. A History of ESP Through ‘English for Specific Purposes’
8. The Benefits of ESP
9. English for Specific Purposes
10. English for Specific Purposes: What does it Mean? Why is it Different?
11. English for Specific Purposes: A Working Bibliography

Fontes de Referência sobre o Uso e a Gramática do Inglês

Rules of Good Writing   

Procedência: A informação fornecida abaixo provém de documentos elaborados por professores de gramática e redação inglesa, na sua maioria preparados para atender as necessidades de falantes nativos da língua, mas que serão de muita utilidade também para estudantes do inglês como língua estrangeira.

1. Rules-01: “George Orwell’s Six Rules for Good Writing.”
2. Rules-02: “Ten Rules for Good Writing.”
3. Rules-03: “Twenty Rules for Good Writing.”
4. Rules-04: “Two Dozen Rules for Good Writing.”
5. Rules-05: “Writing Skills.”

Guide to Grammar and Writing   

Procedência: Um excelente site em inglês mantido pelo Professor Charles Darling para cursos de inglês (para falantes nativos e como língua estrangeira) do Capital Community College, em Hartford, Connecticut (Estados Unidos) e para o público da Internet em geral.

General

1. “Guide to Grammar & Writing” Main Page
2. Text-Only Version of “Guide to Grammar & Writing”
3. Principles of Composition
4. Index to Guide to Grammar & Writing and Principles of Composition
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5. Forms of Communication
6. PowerPoint Presentations
7. Frequently Asked Questions
8. Interactive Quizzes
9. GrammarLogs
10. Grammar English's Annotated Bookshelf
11. Other Online Resources for Writing
12. Eminent Quotables: What Writers Say About Writing

A Guide for Writing Research Papers   

A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation. Prepared by the Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library, Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Procedência: Um excelente site em inglês mantido pelo Humanities Department e pela Arthur C. Banks Jr. Library do Capital Community College, em Hartford, Connecticut, Estados Unidos.

1. A Guide for Writing Research Papers

World Wide Words   

Procedência: Outro excelente site, escrito com uma clareza e precisão raramente encontradas quer seja na mídia escrita ou na Intenet, fundado e mantido por Michael Quinion, detetive de palavras, gramático inveterado e defensor da perspectiva britânica em assuntos internacionais sobre o uso do inglês.

1. “World Wide Words” Main Page
2. Articles Index
3. Question and Answer Index
4. Reviews Index
5. Topical Words Index
6. Turns of Phrase Index
7. Weird Words Index

The American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996)   

Procedência: A informação abaixo sobre gramática, estilo, escolha de palavras, termos científicos, gênero, nomes e rótulos, desafios de pronúncia e formação de palavras provém de uma das fontes mais fidedignas e utilizadas de gramática da língua inglesa, The American Heritage Book of English Usage, edição de 1996. Os dados reproduzidos aqui foram obtidos do excelente web site da Bartleby Books (http://www.bartleby.com/), que, além do American Heritage Book of English Usage, contém outros trabalhos de referência de muita utilidade para o estudante de inglês.

Description in English: A practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English. With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned with proper writing style.

Guidelines for Better Writing:

1. Grammar – Traditional rules, word order, agreement, and case. This section treats traditional problems of grammar and problems involving word order, grammatical agreement, parts of speech, conjunctions, pronouns, and verbs. Problems that are inherent to individual words or entail a choice between words are generally treated under Word Choice.

2. Style – Parallelism, passives, redundancy, and wordiness. This section deals with some common writing problems that do not involve rules of grammar. These problems – of parallelism, redundancy, and the like – are more rhetorical than grammatical; that is, they involve choices you must make as a writer trying to create a certain style of expression.

3. Word Choice – New uses, common confusion, and constraints. This section treats usage problems that are inherent to individual words or entail a choice between words. It provides guidance on traditional difficulties such as when to use between instead of among, what the verb decimate means, and whether politics takes a singular or plural verb. It sorts out commonly confused words like founder and flounder or blatant and flagrant. And it assesses new usages, such as the verbs empower and interface, that have some popular appeal but may be seen as trendy or pretentious. Problems involving pronouns and conjunctions are treated under Grammar.

4. Science Terms – Distinctions, restrictions, and confusions. The notes in this section discuss familiar words that have specific or specialized meanings in science and scientific terms that are easy to confuse. The chapter Word Choice discusses a few technical terms, such as methodology, paradigm, and parameter, that have been adapted for more generalized use.

5. Gender – Sexist language and assumptions. Some of the most interesting changes that have taken place in the English language over the last last thirty years have been driven by the desire to avoid, if not banish, sexism in the language.

6. Names and Labels – Social, racial, and ethnic terms. One of the most basic ways of showing respect for others is to refer to them by the names with which they have chosen to identify themselves and to avoid using names that they consider offensive. This applies to ethnic groups and to other people who are identified according to their stage in life (such as older people), a condition with which they must live (such as people who have a disability), a category that society has placed them in (such as aboriginal peoples), or their sexual orientation.

7. Pronunciation Challenges – Confusions and controversy. People, especially those who are learning English as a foreign language, commonly complain about the inadequacies of the English spelling system and about the difficulties that arise when they try to pronounce unfamiliar words. Most of the other European foreign languages are not plagued with these problems. Native speakers of English who are learning Czech, Finnish, Spanish, or Polish are delighted to discover that the pronunciation of a word in these languages can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy by its spelling. And conversely, the correct spelling of a word can be fairly easily deduced from its pronunciation. Unfortunately, in English the correlation between spelling and pronunciation is not as close. This section presents information that will help students deal in a more effective way with the some of the more problematic aspects of English pronunciation.

8. Word Formation – Plurals, possessives, affixes, and compounds.
   1. Plurals
   2. Forming Possessives
   3. Affixes
   4. Word Compounding

9. The Internet, Electronic Mail, and the English Language – Conventions and quirks. Welcome to the brave new world of electronic mail, the exciting new medium that is supposed to make communication smoother and more effective. Most people who are "on" E-mail are dazzled by what they consider its advantages over other methods of communication but they remain oblivious to its shortcomings. It makes sense then for people who use the Internet and E-Mail on a regular basis to be aware of the ups and downs of electronic communication.

10. A Grammar Toolkit – This section contains an alphabetical list of the important grammatical terms used in this page. Each term has one or more brief definitions. Many terms contain cross-references to the sections where a discussion of the pertinent usage issues can be found.

Strunk's Elements of Style (1918)   

Procedência: A informação abaixo sobre as regras de redação em inglês provém de uma das fontes mais respeitadas, sucintas e claras do assunto, The Elements of Style, de William Strunk, Jr. Os dados reproduzidos aqui foram obtidos do excelente web site da Bartleby Books (http://www.bartleby.com/), que, além do Strunk's Elements of Style, contém outros trabalhos de referência de muita utilidade para o estudante de inglês.

Description in English: Believing that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference work is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Today's readers would do well to keep in mind that Strunk’s Elements of Style was first published in 1918 – almost a century ago! Therefore, some of the information in this memorable reference work is bound to be outdated (for instance, nowadays we spell “today” instead of “to-day”). Be that as it may, many of Strunk’s exhortations are still timely and make perfect sense, especially what the author says about clear, direct language (Elementary Rules of Usage & Elementary Principles of Composition).

Rules of Usage and Principles of Composition in English:
1. Introduction to Strunk's Elements of Style

2. Elementary Rules of Usage

3. Elementary Principles of Composition

4. A Few Matters of Form

5. Words and Expressions Commonly Misused

6. Words Commonly Misspelled

História da Língua Inglesa   

História da Língua Inglesa
Informação sobre a história da língua inglesa, oriunda de várias fontes, incluso a Enciclopédia Britânica e a BBC de Londres.

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