THE PROFILE OF THE STUDENTS AND THE REALITY OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHING IN GUINEA-BISSAU

ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to investigate the linguistic profile of Guinean students and some characteristics of the didactic material used to teach Portuguese in Guiné-Bissau, in order to establish a comparison between the needs of learners and what is offered for learning of Portuguese. As a theoretical subsidy for discussion we consider, among others, Almeida Filho (2005), Spinassé (2006), Carvalho (2011), Mendes (2011), Alves (2012), Sellan (2012) and Schoffen (2012). The corpus used in the research is a questionnaire applied to 50 Guinean students of higher education at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony and Portuguese-language didactic material used in the initial series in Guinea-Bissau. The results point to different factors that influence learning, such as inadequacy of the material, age of acquisition of the Portuguese language and teaching procedures.

摘要：本研究旨在探析几内亚比绍学生的语言特征概况，以及该国葡萄牙语教学所用的教学材料特点，以期对比学习者的葡萄牙语学习需求与现有教学供给情况。本研究的讨论理论支撑主要包括阿尔梅达·菲略（Almeida Filho，2005）、斯皮纳塞（Spinassé，2006）、卡瓦略（Carvalho，2011）、门德斯（Mendes，2011）、阿尔维斯（Alves，2012）、塞兰（Sellan，2012）以及舍芬（Schoffen，2012）等人的研究成果。本研究使用的语料包括两部分：一是针对50名就读于非裔巴西葡语国家国际融合大学（University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony）的几内亚比绍高等教育学生发放的调查问卷；二是几内亚比绍低年级学段所用的葡萄牙语教学材料。研究结果显示，多项因素会对葡萄牙语学习产生影响，包括教学材料适配性不足、葡萄牙语习得年龄以及教学流程。