Today, English has taken on a significant status in the global economy. It is the language adopted in most international business transactions and by international organizations such as the World Bank and the OECD. Given this fact, I invite readers to briefly reflect on the constraints that favor the predominance of a standard contact language… Leia mais WHY IS ENGLISH A LINGUA FRANCA?

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

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

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

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

Over the past years, language teaching and learning have evolved to more contemporary methods derived from a new scenario of technological advancements and the learner-centered approach. According to Larsen-Freeman and Anderson (2011), methods encompass remarkable aspects regarding language teaching and learning as follows: I. Methods serve as an issue for reflection that can aid teachers… Leia mais Food for thought about contemporary ELT methods

The United States are around the corner of a celebrating date – October 31st – the eminently North American cultural phenomenon, Halloween. In Brazil, at this time of the year, private language schools are decorated with witches, pumpkins, and bats for the celebration of Halloween. Brazilian students come to class wearing costumes and monster masks.… Leia mais Halloween or Saci’s Day – that’s the matter