Categoria: Language & Culture

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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Food for thought about contemporary ELT methods

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

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Halloween or Saci’s Day – that’s the matter

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

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INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Interculturality is a set of proposals for democratic coexistence between cultures, seeking integration between them without canceling their diversity that is, “fostering the creative and vital potential resulting from the relationship between different agents and their respective contexts” (CORBETT & FLEURY, 2010, p. 05). In language teaching Kramsch (1998) suggests that the notion of culture… Leia mais INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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Critical reflections of language teachers on pedagogical concerns

Speaking languages ​​(either the vernacular or foreign/additional languages) serves to build knowledge and create spaces for understanding between different cultures through dialogue-affirmation-confirmation of one’s own cultural identity in recognition and respect for other cultures and their particularities. In this sense, the possibilities that languages ​​offer for other readings are highlighted by Bourdieu (1991). He posits… Leia mais Critical reflections of language teachers on pedagogical concerns

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ENGLISH IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION: FUTURE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS IN A REMOTED STUDY

Authors: ALMEIDA, Raquel Silvano; GUIMARÃES, Aline Santana; MOTTA, Tatiara Fernandes; BRANDINO, José Vitor dos Santos.* In the 2021 pandemic remote learning year, Brazilian language professors and future English language teachers gathered virtually in order to study about the contemporary drive of globalization and the current status of the English language. Historically grounded relations between English… Leia mais ENGLISH IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION: FUTURE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS IN A REMOTED STUDY

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Education and Technology: Why Should We Integrate Them?

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A CRITICAL DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK TITLES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Contemporary society is immersed in a huge contingent of cultural products susceptible toward questioning, which are openly offered for consumption worldwide. In this perspective, the publishing market of the design and commercialization of textbooks in foreign languages ​​is configured as a cultural ideological apparatus (ALTHUSSER, 1992). Our purpose, now, is to verify, through the reading… Leia mais A CRITICAL DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK TITLES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING

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