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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the first in-person edition of the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Applications in Italian language”. Register here until 19 October.

The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff members) with the ability to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions. It is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications written in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in application forms.

The course will be taught by the instructors Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini, with the supervision of Prof. Daniela Bunn (MEN/CED). The course has 15 places and totals 20 hours, distributed into three meetings scheduled for 24 October (Module 1), 31 October (Module 2), and 7 November (Module 4), from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at NILT, located in the Rectorate Building II (Av. Desembargador Vitor Lima, 222). Participants are not required to have previous knowledge of the Italian language.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) is promoting the course “Introdução ao Português brasileiro – Nível A1” [Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese – Level A1] for foreign students, researchers and professors who need an introduction to the Portuguese language. The classes will be online and self-instructional. Registrations will be open from 30 September to 12 November 2022.

The aim is to enable participants to master the structures, expressions and sentences of everyday use, allowing them to communicate in a simple way, introduce themselves and others, ask questions and give answers about personal aspects and their surroundings. The course will present elements of the Brazilian culture through texts related to the content being learned and through famous MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) songs.

The course totals 20 hours and a certificate will be provided to the participants who complete all mandatory activities and achieve the performance required for its completion. Classes will take place from 7 to 21 November.

Check below the course content:

• Greetings and introductions;
• Verbs ‘ser’ and ‘estar’;
• Personal pronouns;
• Definite and indefinite articles;
• Prepositions ‘de’, ‘a’ and ‘em’;
• Contractions of articles and prepositions;
• Brazilian Portuguese alphabet and sounds;
• Lexical aspects:
• Week days and months of the year;
• Numbers from 1 to 40;
• Professions;
• Countries and cities.

Register here.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the first in-person edition of the “Italian Proficiency Tests” course. The aim is to present the proficiency tests CELI, CILS and PLIDA. There will be 15 places offered and registrations are open until 27 September 2022.

In this course, participants will not learn the language itself, but instead how the proficiency tests work, including their duration, how the questions are presented, which skills are assessed, the test locations and fees. It is advisable but not mandatory that the students have basic knowledge of Italian to carry out the course activities.

The course is structured into four study modules, organized in such a way that it presents all the relevant information about each of the proficiency tests. The first module will introduce the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its relevance to proficiency tests in any language. Then, the most frequently asked questions involving the Italian tests will be answered. In the second, third and fourth modules, the CILS, CELI and PLIDA tests, respectively, will be presented, including their individual characteristics, the test formats, their duration, and the calendar for the current year.

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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) has launched the second edition of the English course “Written Production in English – Abstracts”. Registrations are open from 4 July to 17 July 2022 (register here).

At the end of the course, students will be able to recognize the main characteristics of the genre abstract; identify the discursive and lexical-systemic characteristics of the genre; contrast types of abstract considering language and subject area; and produce abstracts.

The course totals 16 hours and will be held online through the Moodle Groups platform, featuring synchronous meetings and asynchronous assessments.

Attention: Intermediate knowledge of English – at B1, B2 or C1 level – is recommended to attend the course.

If you have any questions, please contact victor.gobatti@posgrad.ufsc.br. 

Last Wednesday, 29 June, the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT) was inaugurated in the Rectorate Building II. The inauguration event was attended by UFSC’s Rector Ubaldo Cesar Balthazar, the Vice-Rector Catia Regina Silva de Carvalho Pinto, the Secretary for International Relations Lincoln Fernandes, the Director of International Relations Diogo Robl, the NILT Coordinator Silvana Gaspari, SINTER staff and representatives from the Foundation for Socioeconomic Studies and Research (FEPESE), the Prorectorate for Outreach (PROEX) and the Office of Distance Education (SEAD).

NILT was created to promote the internationalization process of UFSC, through the development of language policies and language courses with an international focus. Currently, the Center offers language courses aimed at students and at faculty and staff training. The classes are taught in English, Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL), French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The activities started remotely during the pandemic and will now also be carried out in-person. NILT’s objectives also include the development of translation activities and the administration of proficiency exams, which are still under implementation.

Registrations are again open for the Portuguese as a foreign language course “Aspects of academic writing in Brazilian Portuguese: abstract, review and scientific article” offered by the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER). Registration deadline is 10 July and classes will take place from 15 to 28 July 2022.

The course is being offered to foreign or Brazilian students, researchers and professors who may need an introduction to academic written production in Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to enable the participants to produce quality academic papers in Brazilian Portuguese, providing them with formal, linguistic and argumentative elements necessary for the writing process.

Course content:

• Academic genres: abstract, review, article.
• General characteristics of academic writing: conciseness, clarity, objectivity, impersonality.
• Strategies to maintain impersonality in academic writing.
• Textual cohesion and coherence: connectors, modals and anaphoric references.
• Academic article and its structure: form and content aspects.

The course is structured into three modules, totaling 16 hours, and it has 100 places available.  The classes will be online and the course content and activities will be available on Moodle. To be approved at the end of the course, participants must obtain a minimum grade of 6.0. Participants who complete the mandatory activities with the minimum grade will receive a certificate issued by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), valid within the Brazilian territory.

Click here to register.

If you have any questions, please send an email to cbfaveri@gmail.com

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the simplified selection process for a doctoral scholarship at the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT), in accordance with the  Call for Applications 09/SINTER/2022.

Final result:

1. Dalner Barbi