O Helpers é um projeto de ensino de língua inglesa promovido pelo Projeto COMET (Corpus Multilíngue para Ensino e Tradução). Trata-se de um curso de apoio paralelo às aulas curriculares, que é oferecido, gratuitamente, aos alunos de graduação com habilitação em língua inglesa. Seu objetivo é aperfeiçoar o domínio da língua para que os alunos possam acompanhar as aulas com mais facilidade.


domingo, 24 de junho de 2012

Overuse of I and my

In our analysis in ComAprend, our learner corpus, we found that the pronouns I and my were overused, when we compared to an academic corpus.
Here is a website in which you can find some hints on how to use more impersonal constructions:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/academic/2div.html
Have fun!;-)

quarta-feira, 20 de junho de 2012

Hi everyone!
We´ve been away, we know... Sorry! But we were doing so much we couldn´t find the time to post anymore.
Now, let us make up for it! We´ll be posting the last classes delivered by our Helpers throughout the week. Starting now from the 5th class of Language Practice:


SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT 

Some common mistakes that we found in our learner´s corpus refer to specific words, such as everyone, someone, neither, both etc.
Here´s a website that Gislene, our Helper, found on the topic: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sv_agr.htm.

Need any help? Write to helpersusp@gmail.com.
See you!