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  • Empowering Young English Language Learners through Interactive Whiteboards and Children‟s Literature in a Primary School Setting -An Action-Research Study
    Publication . Lucas, Carmen
    This study focused on the characteristics of an action-research study concerning fostering English language reading and writing intervention programme through the use of storybooks and interactive whiteboards in a primary state school, located in northeast Portugal (mid-socio-economic status setting), where four groups of children (N= 92) participated in the academic year 2021-2022, after the National strategy for introducing foreign languages in primary schools was launched. Despite the „innovations‟ the Portuguese official curriculum suggests, teaching of English as a foreign language in Portugal seems to remain attached to merely teaching a set of isolated words throughout the years. Hence, in this paper it is argued that storybooks aided by Interactive Whiteboards‟ (IWBs) videos of the stories display, subtitled in English have the clear potential to address the current lack of interactive communication in EFL classes. These classroom-based storybook reading sessions were carried out over an academic year. This targeted, controlled experiment examined the effects of a print referencing environment. The sample comprised 85 primary school children attending, Year 2 and (7 years old), (n=50) and Year 3 (8 years old), (n= 35), located in a city centre, Northeast Portugal. The participant, EFL Teacher, following a semi-bilingual syllabus, and the other teachers in 14 other classrooms did not use a print referencing style during 120 large-group storybook reading sessions during a 30-week period. The researcher‟s Field Notes evidenced that the teachers in the comparison classrooms neither read storybooks at all nor used the same interactive, narrative, fluent style of reading, but used instead their own set of isolated words to teach English, without a clear focus on reading. However, in order to effectively incorporate IWBs in EFL classes, school administrators should consider providing constant technical assistance for teachers in the event of difficulties, as well as teaching them on how to use new software that are a part of dealing with IWBs.
    2025Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Should AI-Assisted Academic Writing Be Brought to the Eap Classroom?
    Publication . Lucas, Carmen
    The artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT that has taken the world by storm has made its formal debut in the scientific literature. On the internet, ChatGPT has been rapidly growing. This chatbot enables users to discuss with the AI by inputting prompts, and it is based on Open AI’s language model. At least four articles credit the AI tool as a co-author, as publishers cannot decide the best way to regulate its use. First, we need to recognise the significant role of ChatGPT in the current scenario, where everything went digital. So, shall we keep up with the pace or should we preserve the role of print, books, published papers? The value of ChatGPT is that it has been developed based on the neural language models that form the foundation of character, from the bottom up with talks in mind. This technology implies that the programme uses deep learning methods to analyse and produce text. The model ‘‘understands’’ the subtleties of human-produced natural language using vast amounts of data from the internet. To what extent is this actually reliable? Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) architecture is the foundation of ChatGPT. Although ChatGPT is fantastic and produces exciting results for writing tales, poetry, songs, essays, and other things, it has certain restrictions. Users may ask the bot questions, and it will reply with pertinent, convincing subjects and replies. ChatGPT has now risen to the top of several academic agendas. Administrators create task teams and hold institution-wide meetings to react to the tools, with most of the advice being to adopt this technology.
    2024Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • XV CIAC – Colóquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas: Libro de Resuménes
    Publication . Dotras Bravo, Alexia; Alves, Ana M.; Lucas, Carmen; Martins, Cláudia; Silva, Elisabete Mendes; Santos, Filipa Raquel Veleda; Chumbo, Isabel; Aguiar, Joana; Fernández Rodríguez, María
    Livro de resumos do XV CIAC – Colóquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, realizado no Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, de 26 a 30 maio de 2025
    2025Livro Acesso aberto Ver mais