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Decree 201/1008: Early Childhood Education Curriculum

Curricular Structure

The curriculum is organized into two cycles:

• First Cycle: 0-3 years
• Second Cycle: 3-6 years

Both cycles include three identical areas:

• Area 1: Self-knowledge, Personal Autonomy, Affection, and Early Social Relations.
• Area 2: Discovery of the Environment / Knowledge of the Environment.
• Area 3: Languages: Communication and Representation.

Stage Objectives

To develop oral communication skills, initiate discovery and exploration of the social uses of literacy, and explore the possibility of communicating in another language.

First Cycle Objectives (0-3 years)

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1. Programming in the Area of Foreign Language: Teaching Units

1.1. Why Is Planning Important?

1.2. What Should Go Into an English Language Lesson?

1.3. Principles of Planning

1.4. Teaching Units

2. Criteria for Sequencing and Timing Objectives

3. Selecting Methodology for Learning and Evaluation

4. Conclusions

5. Bibliography

1. Programming in the Area of Foreign Language: Teaching Units

Our current legislation highlights three different levels, which allow schools and teachers to attend to the real needs of student groups, regardless of their specific features. These levels are:

• The National Curriculum
• The particular curriculum at every school
• The curriculum for every group of students

1.1. Why Is Planning Important?

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Enunciado (Sentence): Communication Unit

The enunciado is the communication unit, the minimal message. It has the following characteristics:

• Is the minimum message or communication unit.
• Full sense: the elements of the sentence are linked by grammatical relations.
• Has syntactic autonomy, i.e., may appear isolated.
• In speech, the sentence includes pauses and is pronounced with a particular intonation.
• In written language, the enunciado appears between two full stops (periods).

Text or Discourse

The text or discourse is a coherent set of enunciados (statements). Characteristics:

• Is the maximum communication unit.
• Expresses the complete content that the issuer wants to convey.
• Statements that form the text are united by a relationship of coherence, which

The School as a Socializing Agent

How does the school cater to the diversity of social classes? Do they try to treat everyone equally? Studies have been conducted to answer these questions.

Teaching Disparities Across Social Classes

U.S. Studies: Research shows that teachers teach differently depending on the neighborhood area. From these studies, we can identify specific types of schools based on their socioeconomic surroundings:

Working-Class and Middle-Class Education

• Neighborhoods of the working class: Teachers primarily transmit discipline (regardless of whether students learn).
• Middle-class schools: Students are taught to understand the material to defend themselves. However, instruction is often limited to the transfer of knowledge.

Professional

Linguistic Registers

Informal Register

The informal register is characterized by a spontaneous, subjective, and intentional nature. It typically utilizes an oral channel and maintains a low level of formality.

Formal Register

Formal linguistic models, such as those used by the IASB, are employed by subject matter specialists. These texts are prepared rather than spontaneous and are transmitted through both written and oral channels. Key characteristics include:

• High formality: Objective intentionality.
• Specialized language: Use of formalizing codes, algebraic symbols, and phonetics.
• Impersonal tone: Avoidance of personal voice; use of impersonal sentences.
• Syntactic structure: Predominantly enunciative sentences.
• Technical vocabulary: Extensive use

T.1. Conceptual Analysis of Education Through Changing Approaches

1. Frame and Delimitation

2. A Historical Perspective

2.1. Segregation

2.2. The Change of Status: From Maladjustment to Prevention

2.3. A Terminological Perspective

3. The Inclusion Movement (N)

3.1. Origins

3.2. Formulation of the Inclusion Principle

3.3. Final Considerations

4. The Issue of Evolution

5.1. Deficit, Disability, and Handicap

5. Current Understanding of Inclusive Schooling (I.E.)

T.2. The Inclusive School (I.E.)

1. Level I (According to Soder)

2. The Inclusive School

3. Constraints to the Practice of Inclusive Schooling

3.1. General Constraints

4. Elements of School Reform That Facilitate Inclusive Schooling

4.1. Respect for Individual Differences

4.2. The Child as the Main Protagonist

4.

Focus on Meaning in Language Acquisition

The starting point in Focus on Meaning is not the language, but the learner and learning processes. Lessons with a focus on meaning are purely communicative. It is the learner, not the teacher or textbook writer, who must analyze the L2, including grammar rules, simply from exposure to the input.

Challenges of a Pure Focus on Meaning Approach

There are three primary problems associated with a pure Focus on Meaning approach:

• A number of studies suggest that older children, adolescents, and adults regularly fail to achieve native-like levels in an L2 because they have lost access to whatever innate abilities they used to learn language in early childhood.
• Although considerable progress in an L2 is clearly achieved

Cohesion is the set of linguistic devices that uses a text to secure the connection between its parts and give strength to all. The mechanisms of cohesion can be lexical-semantic and syntactic. A-The main mechanisms of lexical semantic cohesion within the text are the elements of lexical coreference, which consists of the repetition of a linguistic element of the speech along with a variety of resources as : -1) The lexical repetition of key terms texto.2) The deictic deixis or replacement. Within this we can distinguish: 2.1) The personnel at deixis "1pers verb forms, personal pronouns 1pers-,-determinants and 1pers possessive pronouns - plural inclusive through which the" I "of the issuer is diluted a group that includes the receiver, this... Continue reading "Cohesion" »

Computer Generations and Core Technologies

First Generation Computers

The first generation of computers was based on electronic valves. These machines were large, difficult to maintain, and programmed via wired connections. They utilized the Von Neumann architecture and primarily used machine language for scientific and military applications, with data input via punch cards.

Second Generation Computers

The second generation saw the advent of transistors, significantly reducing computer size and increasing speed, power, and reliability. High-level programming languages like COBOL, ALGOL, and FORTRAN became prevalent. Memory systems evolved to include ferrite core memories and magnetic tapes.

Third Generation Computers

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The Communication Unit: The Statement

The statement is the fundamental unit of communication and the minimum message. Its key features include:

• Minimum unit of sense: It is a complete, autonomous grammatical and syntactic unit.
• Speech: It lies between two major pauses.
• Written language: It appears between two periods.

The Text: A Coherent Set

A text is the maximum unit of communication, consisting of specific contents united by cohesion. All elements must be linked through appropriate mechanisms.

Classification of Texts

• Narrative: Events occurring over time.
• Descriptive: Representing or painting landscapes with words.
• Expository: Presenting ideas.

Intention of the Issuer

• Referential: Reporting on facts.
• Expressive: Revealing the author's feelings.
• Appellative: