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- O jogo das manchas: da abstração à figuração: um projeto gráfico de literacia e Educação Visual para o público infantilPublication . Elias, Nina Antunes; Marcelino, AméricoThe present study stands in the field of visual literacy for children and its central motivation is the problem of the deficiency of creative inputs in the visual training domain at school age; The development of visual literacy is of utmost importance for the construction of a competent understanding of the look. The project we conceive aims to contribute to this construction and consists in the realization of a game whose objective is to stimulate the visual creativity appropriate to this age group from seven to nine years old. The game is based on the presentation of blots as inducers of image projection, and is presented in a book-like setting. A playful and pedagogical object is proposed, in loose cardboard pages that, due to its characteristics, works as a dynamic and interaction tool. The Blotting Game was created with the intention of contributing to the exercise childhood look when face of unusual images, such as abstract marks or forms without an obvious immediate sense. The theoretical basis of this study is guided by the work developed by Herbert Read (1982) and Viktor Lowenfeld (1970) in the field of visual and artistic education. Regarding the problems with representation and image theory, and in particular the relationship between abstraction and figuration, Alexander Cozens' blotting method (1787) and some graphic procedures of the surrealist movement (1924) were important specific references for the methodological foundation for this work. The research also examines issues such as perceptual abstraction, analysis of Rorschach cards, the question of ambiguity in Gestalt and in the theory of representation, identification of figures, the formlessness and their implications for understanding children's drawing.Finally, the application work report gives a description of the various practical aspects of the project development and execution
- Chinese English : a contribution to the study of its image and intelligibilityPublication . Yi, Yao; Barros, Rita Queiroz deAs English has spread around the world, it has been localized under the influence of local cultures and local languages. As a result, new varieties of English which are linguistically different from one another have emerged. Due to the divergences between them, mutual intelligibility is now an issue so English can function as a lingua franca around the world. At the same time, out of the divergences between perceived ‘nonstandard varieties’ and ‘standard varieties’ of English, a discussion about people’s attitudes towards ‘nonstandard varieties’ of English has also arisen. After many decades of contact with the Chinese culture, there is no doubt that English in China has developed typically Chinese characteristics which make it different from any other variety of the language. This survey is a contribution to the study of this recent form of English, aiming(i) to trace the present image of ChE in the world; and (ii) to examine to what extent ChE in its present form can be understood well by other speakers of English and thus accomplish its mission as a lingua franca. To this purpose, a questionnaire was presented to a sample of 35 speakers of English with different first languages (henceforward L1). And the results suggested that, firstly, Chinese English has high level of intelligibility especially when it is spoken in a language context; secondly, Chinese English has achieved recognition as a variety of English, being no longer considered as merely improperly spoken English. However, Chinese English is not considered a pleasant and accurate variety and most respondents consider that it is still not systematic enough to be regarded equally with other more established varieties of English, or at least with native English varieties.