Dictionary of Portuguese-English verbs for Brazilian learners: preparing entries beginning with the letter - B

• Grant number: 14/05159-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Regiani Aparecida Santos Zacarias
• Grantee: Mirian Pereira Bispo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes research in Bilingual Pedagogical Lexicography-Portuguese-English, a subject inserted in the field of Applied Linguistics and social sciences. The studies to be carried out are part of the project for the compilation of the Portuguese-English dictionary of verbs, proposed by Zacarias, 2011, who is also the professor in charge of this research. The referred dictionary is based on a scientific study of the contrast of Portuguese-English languages and on the needs of Brazilian learners of English as a foreign language. Our work will start from the identification of the most used verbs in Portuguese, presented in Bay and Davies (2008) and also in the site http://corpusbrasileiro.pucsp.br/cb/Inicial.html, then we will carry out a study of the first ten verbs beginning with the letter A. Our study will evaluate the entries of each of the verbs in four Portuguese-English learners' dictionaries. At the end of this work, we will present the ten verbs entries, which will be part of the verb dictionary.