Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2006 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Lúcio, Denise Delegá
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| Orientador(a): |
Sardinha, Antonio Paulo Berber |
| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Dissertação
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem
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| Departamento: |
Lingüística
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| País: |
BR
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| Palavras-chave em Português: |
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| Palavras-chave em Inglês: |
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13872
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Resumo: |
The need for communication in English has been rising enormously nowadays due to a lot of factors (internet, globalization, etc.). Because of this, research in the area of English teaching, mainly to help teachers in their practices, has earned a lot of relevance. One of the teachers tasks is the teaching of composition writing. In this kind of practice, sometimes teachers have a hard time correcting the compositions, especially when the problem is not a mistake but excessive repetition of words. One of the classes of words that Brazilian students tend to overuse is the adjectives. This research aims at finding relexicalization possibilities for overused adjectives by Brazilian students of English as an alternative for composition correction. To realize this study two corpora will be analyzed, one belonging to a project called BrICLE and another called BNC (British National Corpus), the former will be the study corpus and the latter will be the reference corpus. For this reason, this study will make use of a methodology based on electronic corpus analyses, and will be theoretically supported by Corpus Linguistics (Sinclair 1988 e 1991; Hunston 2002; Sardinha 2004) and Learner Corpus Linguistics (Granger, 1998; Lorenz, 1999). By comparing the two corpora we came to the conclusion that Brazilian students really overuse certain adjectives. After analyzing the patterns found in both corpora we were able to suggest some relexicalizations possibilities for the overused adjectives. These suggestions could be used by teachers when correcting their students compositions |
