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Linking adverbials in applied linguistics research articles: a corpus-based study
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2015-03-06)
This study aims at investigating the use of linking adverbials (Biber et al., 1999) in research articles written by Brazilian English L2 applied linguists in comparison to those written by English L1 professionals of the ...
A implementação do módulo teaching through corpora em um programa de educação continuada
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2016-07-29)
The exchange of experiences between university and basic education professionals has beendiscussed as a productive relation which provides improvements in the teaching practice and inthe linguistic proficiency of the ...
Lexical bundles across sections of applied linguistics research articles
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2018-02-23)
The increasing use of computerheld text corpora for the analysis of lexicogrammatical patterns, once unavailable to observers, has allowed researchers to get a better and more precise understanding of language. Corpus ...
Processing a learner corpus to identify differences: the influence of task, genre and student background
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2016-03-21)
This master thesis deals with the technical and methodological aspects in creating, cleaning and processing a Brazilian university level learner corpus, the Corpus do Inglês sem Fronteiras (CorIsF) v 1.0. The two main goals ...
A linguística de corpus no ensino de inglês: um experimento com atividades com "to" e "for"
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2012-07-05)
The research work described in this master thesis has been based on an exploratory empirical study put through with 9th-grade students of a public school in the state of Minas Gerais. We investigated the implications of ...
Gênero Textual na Metodologia de Pesquisa em Gramaticalização
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2009-08-17)
The theme of this paper is the question of genre in corpora selection for diachronic linguistic investigations. The aim of this research is to demonstrate that different genres favor certain uses, and that this matter puts ...
Os sintagmas nominais do inglês: um estudo comparativo de corpus entre o uso de determinantes nas produções escritas de falantes nativos do inglês e aprendizes brasileiros
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2014-01-31)
The objective of this research was to investigate how Brazilian learners produce determiners in noun phrases of English language in academic writing, and to compare them with English native speakersdeterminers produced in ...
Formação de professores na rede pública: criação de atividades baseadas em corpora
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2016-01-27)
Continuing education can be part of a set of actions that contribute to professional development (CARVALHO, 2008). Research shows little progress in foreign language teachers professional development (COX e ASSIS-PETERSON, ...
A metáfora nova de Nelson Rodrigues
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2017-04-12)
The present research tried, fundamentally, to study the new metaphors present in Nelson Rodrigues chronicles, with the objective of unveiling patterns for their composition, as well as for their use, and to elaborate a ...
Do concreto ao abstrato: o corpo humano como base experiencial para conceptualizações
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2013-07-17)
In order to demonstrate whether concrete terms have a tendency to occur more and more abstract through time, we based this research on the human body as a basis for concrete and experiential conceptualizations. Thus, the ...