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The Institutional Center for Languages ​​and Translation (NILT/SINTER) launched the Portuguese as a foreign language course “Aspects of academic writing in Brazilian Portuguese: abstract, review and scientific article”.  Registrations are open from 15 to 31 March 2022 and classes will take place from 18 April to 7 May.

The course is being offered to foreign or Brazilians 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 reference.
• Academic article and its structure: form and content aspects.

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The Institutional Center for Languages ​​and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the French course “Atelier: Rédiger une lettre de motivation”. Registrations open on 14 March and classes will take place between 28 March and 20 April.

In this course, the students will have an introduction to intercultural issues involving the preparation of a lettre de motivation (motivation letter) in French; develop comprehension skills to recognize the structure of application letters for internships, courses, among others; and produce a lettre de motivation based on specific linguistic and lexical content that the genre demands in the academic context.

The course requires A2 proficiency level and totals 16 hours. The synchronous classes will take place on 28/03, 30/03, 04/04, 06/04, 11/04, 13/04, 18/04 and 20/04, from 10 am to 11:30 am.

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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the “Italian Proficiency Tests” course, aiming to present the proficiency tests offered by Italian universities in Brazil (CELI, CILS, PLIDA). Registrations are open until 27 March 2022.

In this course, students will understand what these tests are for, how they are carried out and evaluated, and what skills they must have to choose the most appropriate level for their linguistic knowledge. Participants will not learn the language itself, but will become familiar with the functioning of the tests, including their duration, how the questions are presented, which skills are assessed, where the tests are administered and how much they cost. Basic knowledge of Italian is advisable to carry out the course activities, but it is not mandatory.

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.

The course totals 20 hours and is composed of synchronous classes and asynchronous readings and activities. To complete the course, it is necessary to carry out the activities proposed at the end of each module (40%) and participate in the synchronous classes (60%). The course will open on Moodle on 29 March. The synchronous classes will take place on 5 April (Modules 1 and 2) and 12 April (Modules 3 and 4), Tuesdays, from 10 am to 11:30 am, via the Zoom platform. The link will be available on Moodle and will also be sent to the students one day before the first synchronous class. Classes will be taught by the instructors Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini, with the supervision of professor Daniela Bunn (MEN/CED/UFSC).

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The Institutional Center for Languages ​​and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Cultural texts in German: a translation practice”. Classes will take place between 7 and 17 March 2022. Students will be able to recognize cultural aspects in German language texts and understand how functionalist theory can help in the translation of these elements.

Registration is open until 6 March and there are 20 available seats. Participants must have knowledge of the German language for the translation tasks. The synchronous classes will be taught via Google Meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 7 pm to 8 pm, by Juliana de Abreu (who holds an undergraduate degree in German Language and Literature and a Master’s and a Doctoral degree in Translation Studies – PGET/UFSC).

On Monday, 7 March, participants will receive a welcome message by email with information about how the course will be organized.

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Should you have any questions, please contact NILT’s staff at cursonilt@gmail.com.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online English course “Written Production in English– Abstracts”. The course is aimed at faculty, staff and students at UFSC. Classes will take place remotely, via Moodle, and applications will be open from 7 to 14 February.

The goal of the course is to capacitate students to produce abstracts, identify the characteristics of the genre, and compare and contrast different types of abstracts. Intermediate knowledge of English – at B1, B2 or C1 level – is recommended.

Classes will take place from 17 February to 25 March. The course content will be available on Moodle for independent study. Evaluation activities will be carried out asynchronously and sent to the instructor’s e-mail on the following dates: 22 and 28 February, and 4, 9, 16 and 23 March.

The course totals 16 hours and there are 30 available seats. To apply, click here.

If you have any questions, please send them to victor.gobatti@posgrad.ufsc.br.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online Spanish course “Elaboration of a motivation letter for academic exchange/mobility”. Applications will be open from 8 February to 8 March and classes will take place from 9 March to 1 April. 

The course contains guidelines for the elaboration of a motivation letter in Spanish to apply for academic exchange programs. The course materials and activities will be in Spanish; therefore, reading proficiency in the language is a minimum prerequisite.

Classes will include the analysis and identification of the parts of a motivation letter, formality and informality, forms of address, greeting and farewell formulas in Spanish, selection and organization of information relevant to the letter, lexicon and appropriate contents.

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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Application in Italian language – 2nd edition”. The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff) to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions.

Given the offer of Italian government scholarships for undergraduate exchange, graduate research and cultural exchanges, 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, in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in registration forms.

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