O que quer [e] o que pode essa língua ? (Caetano Veloso, Língua) Brazilian MPB singer Caetano Veloso asks, ‘What does this language want and what can it do?’, inviting us to consider language and its power. Languages have been hugely dominant across colonizing periods and civilizing missions worldwide. But how is language learning for… Leia mais Language learning and the ‘otherness’
There is a centrality of language as an economic activity in the globalized economy since language has become a commodity under two specific and emerging characteristics of its exchange value: language as a means of production and a product. By characterizing language as a means of production and as a product, Heller (2005, 2010), sharing… Leia mais Language matters
Santa Claus or Santa, in English, derives from the Dutch term ‘Sinter Klass’, which is culturally also called Saint Nicholaus. Its tradition remotes Nordic and Germanic traditions—places where it’s pretty cold during the year. As in the Protestant tradition, the older man, Saint Nicholaus, brings presents to kids for Christmas just as the three Kings… Leia mais What’s Brazilian Santa like?
The concept of the ‘language market’, proposed by Bourdieu (1998), is relevant to understanding the field of power relations imbricated in the constitution of the English language as a valuable linguistic capital and its configuration as a commodity in the globalized economic market. Bourdieu’s studies of the field of social sciences to power relations, hierarchization,… Leia mais Language Market
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?
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
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
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?
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
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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