The main purpose of this article is to highlight the potential of the Instagram social network as a didactic resource for teaching and learning languages. To do so, it presents a pilot study titled #aveiroenossople (Aveiro is ours PLE) about the use of Instagram in complementary activities in the teaching of Portuguese for Chinese students of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) of the University of Aveiro, whose products were advertised on the page Of the # AveiroeNosso-PLE project on the Wix platform. In order to study whether the Instagram social tool can contribute to the development of discursive skills of Chinese learners, both in the oral and written modalities, the study proposal was anchored in a conception of language as process and interaction, from which one understands the production and comprehension of text – oral or written – as social practice. In the methodological path, three stages were accomplished in the development of the work, namely: (i) planning, (ii) implementation, and (iii) evaluation. In general terms, the results point to contributions from the use of Instagram for the development of competences related to textual and multimodal production and comprehension, the cultural competences necessary and intrinsic to the learning of a foreign language, as well as for the formation of learning communities by means of the interactions between the participants.

This work represents an attempt to facilitate the automatic access to the spontaneous Portuguese data for studies on experimental phonetic area and speech synthesis, maintaining qualitative and quantitative information of the data. This corpus constitutes more than 30 hours of recording with samples of two Portuguese spoken dialects in Amazonia Region: the Amazon Portuguese (AM) and the Afro-Brazilian Portuguese (ABP). As a baseline, samples of the Standard Brazilian Portuguese (PB) were also used. The corpus inventory, the digitalization of the speech data and the phonetic segmentation using the PRAAT software preceded the construction of the oral database. Using language HTML and other resources of computer science a documentation of the database in a Internet site becomes possible.

Investiga os elementos coesivos supra-segmentais  na narrativa conversacional. A observação desses elementos deu-se a partir de uma transcrição do corpus e seleção posterior dos dados para identificar os recursos coesivos. Os resultados apresentados se referem a diferentes elementos prosódicos, pausas, entonação, elementos onomatopeicos,ritmo e imitação da voz, que contribuíram nesta fala espontânea para o estabelecimento da coesão.

A organização de corpora em banco de dados orais é de interesse de todas as áreas que desenvolvem pesquisas sobre linguagem humana. Este trabalho apresenta as fases necessárias para a construção de banco de dados orais: (i) organização, (ii) segmentação fonética e (iii) o armazenamento de corpora sociolinguísticos.