Learning Portuguese Conjugation: a Case of Necessity for Alternatives to Tables
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Conjugation tables are a basic staple in teaching Portuguese as a foreign language. Due to the rich verbal morphology, students spend a considerable time of their acquisition period concentrating in memorizing all verb inflections. In this paper we examine first a representative sample of Portuguese as second language textbooks, to explore what methods are used to teach the subject. Results show that conjugation tables are the only way conjugation is introduced in the totality of the textbooks. In the second part, we turn to students’ perceptions on the subject matter and in their processes to study and internalize the information. For that, we conducted a survey and analyzed the responses through polychoric and factorial tests and finally through ordinal linear regression. Results show that students use conjugation tables constantly, but the ones that try different strategies perceive the subject as less difficult and time-consuming. We propose that there is an important gap to be filled in the teaching of grammar and it is past time to develop more methods beyond the traditional conjugation tables.
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Conjugation tables are a basic staple in teaching Portuguese as a foreign language. Due to the rich verbal morphology, students spend a considerable time of their acquisition period concentrating in memorizing all verb inflections. In this paper we examine first a representative sample of Portuguese as second language textbooks, to explore what methods are used to teach the subject. Results show that conjugation tables are the only way conjugation is introduced in the totality of the textbooks. In the second part, we turn to students’ perceptions on the subject matter and in their processes to study and internalize the information. For that, we conducted a survey and analyzed the responses through polychoric and factorial tests and finally through ordinal linear regression. Results show that students use conjugation tables constantly, but the ones that try different strategies perceive the subject as less difficult and time-consuming. We propose that there is an important gap to be filled in the teaching of grammar and it is past time to develop more methods beyond the traditional conjugation tables.
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