Corpus TecEM: o processo de construção de um corpus de produções textuais em língua portuguesa elaboradas por alunos de ensino médio integrado a cursos técnicos

Maitê Moraes Gil, Julia Ferri Pinto, Vitor Gouvêa, Bruno Corrêa de Almeida, Pedro de Andrade Santos, Augusto Weiand

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Abstract

This paper aims to describe the construction of TecEM Corpus, an online tool that makes publicly available texts written by high school and vocational course students during their Brazilian Portuguese (BP) classes. In addition to its potential for academic use, such a corpus can also support the development of teachine practices. As a theoretical basis, this project assumed the understanding of Corpus Linguistics as a corpusbased approach and a perspective for the study of language. These six steps were followed: (a) bibliographical survey; (b) contact with BP teachers from Federal Institutes and invitation to those interested in contributing to the corpus; (c) collection of texts written by high school and vocational course students during their BP classes; (d) compilation of texts based on established criteria; (e) storing the TecEM corpus in an online database, defining its structure aligned with the compilation criteria; (f) development and availability of the tool. In March, 2019, TecEM Corpus had 226 texts (111,800 words) written by students of Federal Institutes located in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and more texts were already collected from April onward. With the construction of this corpus, we argue that a rich and careful database for future research was made available to the academic community, contributing both to theoretical development and to the proposition of new BP teaching practices, in general, and to technological education contexts, in particular.
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)92-109
Number of pages18
JournalLínguaTec
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2019

Keywords

  • Brazilian Portuguese corpus
  • Brazilian Portuguese teaching
  • Technological education

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