Autor: Raquel Almeida

Professora Adjunta da Universidade Estadual do Paraná - UNESPAR, campus de Apucarana. Docente do Curso de Licenciatura em Letras Inglês da Unespar. Possui graduação em Letras Português-Inglês pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). Especialização em Ensino de Língua Inglesa pela UEM. Aperfeiçoamento em Tecnologia Educacional pela Universitat de Les Iles Baleares, Espanha. Mestrado em Educação pela UEM. Doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL). É pós-doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (UEM). É responsável pela coluna "Language & Culture" na Revista ContemporArtes da UFABC. Publicou, em 2020, o livro "Globalização do Inglês: impactos mercadológicos e reflexos na formação de professores no Brasil", pela Pontes Editores. Suas áreas de pesquisa e interesse: Ensino/Aprendizagem de língua inglesa; Formação inicial de professores de língua inglesa; Formação continuada de professores de língua inglesa da Educação Básica pública; Educação linguística crítica em contextos de educação não formal; Globalização do inglês sob o paradigma da complexidade; Pesquisa transdisciplinar em Linguística Aplicada; Perspectivas decoloniais no ensino/aprendizagem de línguas; Didática sob a perspectiva da Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica e Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação no ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa.

MODERN CULTURE AND EDUCATION: what and how are language teachers expected to instruct?

Technological and scientific transformations have accelerated industrial production technologies and the field of microelectronics. Research into genetic engineering has led to cures for various diseases and innovations in food production. Information technology and cyberspace have generated different forms of employment in a lot of work. In leisure and culture, we are witnessing a euphoria for… Leia mais MODERN CULTURE AND EDUCATION: what and how are language teachers expected to instruct?

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WORLDWIDE ENGLISH

The globalization of English and its cultural, political, economic, and social implications have sparked discussion among linguists and researchers of this phenomenon. According to Pennycook (1994), “English teaching seems omnipresent in the world, playing a role everywhere on a grand global scale in the complexities of people’s lives”. For Kachru (1983), the imposition of the… Leia mais WORLDWIDE ENGLISH

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GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH AND SOCIETIES

The historical relations between the English language and globalization serve as a backdrop to understanding the different phases of this language known today as “global”. Both globalization and the spread of English have a long trajectory of time and space and, therefore, cannot be seen as “totally” recent phenomena but with dominant characteristics marked by… Leia mais GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH AND SOCIETIES

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Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Initial Teacher Education: some outstanding remarks

We consider Edgar Morin’s (1995; 1996) studies on inter and transdisciplinarity to be of academic relevance and theoretical and methodological improvement for teachers in initial education and teacher educators. The historical and epistemological understanding of the fragmentation of knowledge leads us to reflect on science, social reality, and the subject. From modernity until today, scientific… Leia mais Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Initial Teacher Education: some outstanding remarks

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Learning how to mediate young learners in their learning process

By Hugo Augusto Costa* Teaching children might always be a challenging practice. May they be wrong when they say it requires no preparation, just basic knowledge on caring for the small ones. In the book “Teaching Languages to Young Learners” (CAMERON, 2001), we prove that it is indeed essential that teachers study the necessities of… Leia mais Learning how to mediate young learners in their learning process

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The Development of English Oral Skills in a Public-School Context: a Case Study

Author: Hugo Augusto Costa* Abstract Considering my own experience as an English language student in the Língua Estrangeira Moderna discipline in public school, I found a lack of practice considering the oral exposition. Now, while studying to be a foreign language teacher myself, I have been in contact with different approaches and methodologies, which objectives… Leia mais The Development of English Oral Skills in a Public-School Context: a Case Study

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ENGLISH AND VIDEO GAMES:

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON LANGUAGE LEARNING FROM ‘LEAGUE OF LEGENDS’ DURING THE (POST)PANDEMIC TIMES Sávio Sayuki Satake Supervisor: Raquel Silvano Almeida (Universidade Estadual do Paraná)* ABSTRACT This research paper aimed to analyze how the video game League of Legends (2009) can be an effective virtual tool for English language learning. Data were collected during the pandemic and… Leia mais ENGLISH AND VIDEO GAMES:

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So this is Christmas

John Lennon’s classic Christmas song, Happy Xmas (War is Over) (1971), also with the Portuguese language version “Então é Natal” (1995), has served in Brazil for decades as a backdrop for one of the most intermittent “rites of the cultural industry”: the consumption in stores, supermarkets, shopping centers, department stores, public markets, among others, at… Leia mais So this is Christmas

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THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM IN PRE AND POST-PANDEMIC: REFLECTIONS FROM A TEACHER IN DEVELOPMENT

Author: Jose Vitor dos Santos Brandino (Letras Ingles Undergraduate at the State University of Parana, Apucarana, PR, Brazil) Introduction The objective of this paper is to raise the primary information of two works (MOREIRA, 2012) and (LIBERALI, 2020) regarding technology use in the classroom, and in a expository/argumentative way, it weaves possible comparisons, seeking to… Leia mais THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM IN PRE AND POST-PANDEMIC: REFLECTIONS FROM A TEACHER IN DEVELOPMENT

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