The development of materials for teaching Portuguese in East Timor

an analysis of the manuals produced for the Anticorruption Committee (CAC)

Abstract

Between February 2020 and November 2021, the investigators and specialists of the Anticorruption Committee (CAC) of the Democratic Republic of East Timor benefited from intensive training in Portuguese language, with the aim of strengthening their linguistic proficiency, especially at a technical and legal level. This was carried out within the framework of the Delegated Cooperation Project PFMO - Osan Povo Nian, Gere Ho Di'Ak, funded by the European Union and co-financed and managed by Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. The singularities and lack of resources for teaching Portuguese as L2 required the development of specific teaching materials that were appropriate to the context and that responded to the purpose of the courses designed. In this article I analyse the manuals created for levels A2 and B1, giving special relevance to the content produced based on the legal diplomas that govern the institution's activity in the field of preventing and fighting corruption and associated crimes.