Vocabulary size has been repeatedly shown to be a good indicator of second language (L2)
proficiency. Among the many existing vocabulary tests, the LexTALE test and its equivalents …

Embora os estudos fraseológicos no Brasil estejam consolidados em uma significativa
produção científica, as unidades fraseológicas seguem marginalizadas no ensino de língua …

Neste artigo apresentamos o PAPEL, um recurso lexical para o português, constituído por
relações entre palavras, extraídas de forma automática de um dicionário da língua geral …

Paraphrasing is an indispensable practice in translation. Translation can even be
considered as a paraphrasing process, where the paraphrasing of a sentence or part of a …

After a short history of Portuguese corpus linguistics, presenting the main projects in the
area, I discuss in some detail the AC/DC project 1 and what is called the AC/DC cluster …

This paper presents a methodology to extract a paraphrase database for the European and
Brazilian varieties of Portuguese, and discusses a set of paraphrastic categories of …

The Coaching Life Skills in Sport Questionnaire (CLSS-Q) is a 5-factor 36-item scale
developed in the English language to assess the extent to which coaches are intentional in …

Imagery can be defined as the ability to represent and rehearse in the mind behaviors
related to a given situation. The Sport Imagery Questionnaire was developed to measure the …

Abstract Background Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare (DASH©) is an
instrument to assist in developing and evaluating debriefing skills. The objectives of this …

Purpose In this study we investigated a set of 100 sentence contexts and their cloze
probabilities to develop a database of linguistic stimuli for Brazilian Portuguese children and …