The Storyline method requires learners to create a fictive world and take on the role of characters in a story which they develop themselves. The story, co-created with the teacher, is based around a topic in the curriculum. In the course of the story, key questions based on curriculum-mandated aims are asked by the teacher in order to engage the learners in tasks during which learning occurs. Although Storyline has been used for many years in the classroom, its applicability to the foreign language classroom has only been researched recently and not extensively. By establishing a simulated ‘real world’ and providing students with ownership of their learning, students can use and improve their language skills, developing intercultural communicative competence in a meaningful context. This action research case study investigated the impact of the Storyline method on the foreign language classroom in the context of teaching military linguist cadets at a Russian university. A fictive base of a United Nations military observation mission, invented by the students themselves, served as a meaningful context for learning. The aim of the study was to improve the effectiveness of teaching in terms of developing language skills and raising student motivation, in the context of teaching English as a foreign language to military linguist cadets. The study found that the student response was positive, with improvements in motivation and satisfaction with the teaching and learning process. Moreover, students also showed improvements in terms of English language skills. It was also discovered that Storyline could benefit from adaption to include form-focused instruction for teaching grammar points. Additionally, explicit explanations of certain Storyline activities, in particular art work, might be beneficial when working with military linguist cadets. Ultimately Storyline was found to be an effective foreign language teaching method for military linguist cadets in Russia and has potential for use in other foreign language teaching for specific purposes contexts owing to its capacity for making language learning more relevant to the real life contexts in which professionals find themselves.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper aims to propose a reflection on the problem of defining, whose semantically stable appearance produces an effect of evidence of knowing, dissimulating the interpretative gesture of the subject it defines. Thus, our proposal is to develop a study on what makes a definition not merely a formulation inscribed in a paraphrastic net but a formulation that historicizes, that makes part of the interdiscourse at the same time it individualizes the subject, and makes him/her responsible for what s/he writes. Therefore, we work with the notion of function-author (ORLANDI, 2007 [1996]), in order to investigate what makes the definition a singular formulation. Furthermore, we question the effect of evidence that constitutes the act of defining, since our reflection on language accepts the discomfort of not settling on the evidence and in the place of the already-said. We take as an object of analysis the definition attributed to the designation of syntagma , which is associated to Saussure as the one who attributed to such a definition its conceptual character when introducing it in linguistic studies, and which, from the second half of the 20th century, started to make part of the grammarians domains in Brazil time when the grammarians saying was determined by the Brazilian Grammatical Nomenclature (NGB). Considering the displacement of the designation of syntagma among different knowledge domains, we propose to investigate how the linguists and the grammarians knowledge is articulated from the definition attributed to the syntagma designation. Thus, we first consider the definition of syntagma in the formulation of grammarians and how it constitutes a chain of paraphrastic constructions that lead to a source-formulation that is inscribed in another knowledge domain, and produces different effects of sense that are under the same appearance. Our work belongs to the History of Linguistic Ideas in its articulation with French Discourse Analysis. Thus, we reflect how some knowledge is constituted and then reformulated, getting thus specific features (GUIMARÃES, 2004). / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo propor uma reflexão sobre a problemática da definição, cuja aparência semanticamente estável produz um efeito de evidência do saber, dissimulando o gesto interpretativo do sujeito que define. Nossa proposta é desenvolver um estudo sobre o que faz com que a definição não seja apenas mais uma formulação inscrita em uma rede parafrástica, mas sim uma formulação que historiciza, que passa a fazer parte do interdiscurso, ao mesmo tempo em que individualiza o sujeito, colocando-o como responsável por aquilo que diz e escreve. Para tanto, mobilizaremos a noção de função-autor (ORLANDI, 2007 [1996]), procurando investigar o que torna a definição uma formulação singular. Além disso, questionaremos o efeito de evidência que constitui o ato de definir, uma vez que a nossa reflexão sobre a linguagem aceita o desconforto de não nos ajeitarmos nas evidências e no lugar do já-dito. Tomaremos como objeto de análise a definição atribuída à designação sintagma , a qual é associada a Saussure como aquele que primeiro atribuiu a essa designação um caráter conceitual ao introduzi-la nos estudos lingüísticos. Tal designação, a partir da segunda metade do século XX, passou a fazer parte também do domínio de saber do gramático no Brasil, época em que o dizer do gramático passou a ser determinado, sobretudo, pela Nomenclatura Gramatical Brasileira (NGB). Considerando o deslocamento da designação sintagma entre diferentes domínios de saber, propomos investigar como se articula o saber do linguista e do gramático a partir da definição atribuída à designação sintagma . Dessa forma, propomos considerar inicialmente a definição de sintagma na formulação do gramático e como, a partir daí, constitui-se uma rede de reformulações parafrásticas que remontam a uma formulação-origem que está inscrita em outro domínio de saber, produzindo efeitos de sentido diferentes sob a aparência do mesmo. Nosso trabalho está filiado à História das Ideias Linguísticas articulada à Análise de Discurso de linha francesa. Trata-se, pois, de refletir como certos saberes se constituem e, ao permanecerem, são reformulados, ganhando contornos específicos (GUIMARÃES, 2004).