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Maria Claudia Pires Gonçalves
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- Majored in Portuguese and English Language and Literatures (Universidade Católica de Petrópolis / Gama Filho - RJ - 1984)
Post-graduate in Linguistics (UFFE - Niterói - RJ - 1989)
Research about Portuguese as a Second Language, Fundação Kalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (1993).
Second Language Acquisition (Bell School - Saffron Walden - UK - 1992).
Cambridge Proficiency Examination (Belo Horizonte - MG - 2000)
Cambridge English Examination for Language Teachers 2 - CEELT 2
(Belo Horizonte - MG - 2001)
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A cry for help!
Dear all,
I've been trying to keep my hands dirty and feet wet. I must look as messy as anything.
Well, I'm slowly introducing my students to our wiki and I created a screencast to help them go about their business (Woohoo! Thanks, Carla!). I can't seem to be able to get the html code to work, though. I enter the code, hit preview and... nothing happens. Soo troubling. However, I got to post a scrapblog last night.
Suggestions are more than welcome!
Have a wonderful week and thanks for your hel… Continue
I've been trying to keep my hands dirty and feet wet. I must look as messy as anything.
Well, I'm slowly introducing my students to our wiki and I created a screencast to help them go about their business (Woohoo! Thanks, Carla!). I can't seem to be able to get the html code to work, though. I enter the code, hit preview and... nothing happens. Soo troubling. However, I got to post a scrapblog last night.
Suggestions are more than welcome!
Have a wonderful week and thanks for your hel… Continue
Posted on November 23, 2008 at 3:39pm — 3 Comments
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I'm Happy to be together with you again. It was nice to be with you in the course.
Thanks very much / Muito obrigado / Merci bien for your kind words about my new wiki. I'm glad we have a common interest in relaxed speech—which is a feature of all languages and one that all language learners find frustrating and difficult.
My skills in French were never very good, but when I was much younger, I thought I knew more French than I actually did—and had many problems in Paris, Nice, Monaco, and other places. The most common reaction to my very poor pronunciation and complete lack of idiom was something like this: 'Please, monsieur. Ah spik zi inglish' (said with a Gallic shrug, an expression of dismissiveness, and a downturned mouth).
Your reason for choosing to work with relaxed speech is exactly the same as my own but stated more succinctly: "...Either I raised my stds' awareness about relaxed speech or they would end up like me, able to talk their way around but rather deaf."
Please add this comment (actually the whole paragraph beginning with "In my experience as a student of French . . .") to my wiki. It's exactly the kind of thing that many teachers need to hear.
I'd also be honored to have you join me as a contributor. You can easily take part by adding comments and/or questions, but you're also welcome to add more substantial portions. Although I'd love to expand the wiki to include relaxed speech in languages / dialects other than North American English, I think for practicality's sake, it should keep within those boundaries. There's nothing at all inappropriate with mentioning difficulties in handling relaxed speech in other languages or dialects, however, as long as the primary content doesn't diverge from what it is now.
Again, many, many thanks for your kind words!
Abraços!
Dennis
It's a pleasure to meet u here!!!!!!!!!!!!