A carência de corpora para pesquisa e ensino no contexto da integração internacional lusófona

Abstract

This article has the main objective address the need to establish corpora of spoken varieties of Portuguese in African Countries of Portuguese Official Language (PALOP) and East Timor. The need is evidenced more effectively in the specific context of international integration Lusophone verified at the University of International Integration of African-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), a federal institution of international character that welcomes up to fifty percent of their students from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor. The spoken language databases not only constitute a linguistic research tool, but also important subsidiary material for teaching activities in educational training programs for Portuguese-speaking teachers as first and as a second language (Portuguese for foreigners). Moreover, this corpus would provide the same customers the knowledge and respect for linguistic varieties, indeed quite emphasized in the National Curriculum Standards for the teaching of Portuguese Language of Elementary and Secondary Education.