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Salomão, Ana Cristina Biondo – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
Virtual Exchange (VE) has grown out of telecollaboration, which originated in the language-teaching field and has now expanded to all areas of knowledge as a collaborative methodology to enhance learning and fostering soft skills and intercultural competences. VE has recently received growing interest from higher education institutions due to the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
The diversity of vulnerability conditions, that have prevented children and adolescents from exercising their right to school education, also produces a diversity of cultural references of the public that comes to Basic Education programs for Youth and Adults in developing countries. This diversity often forges appropriation processes of numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Syntax, Semantics
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Wimpenny, Katherine; Finardi, Kyria R.; Orsini-Jones, Marina; Jacobs, Lynette – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
This paper examines digital inclusion and equity in international higher education with particular focus on Global South-North Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Practice examples, bringing together students and academics in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK, are used to consider how COIL is being integrated into higher education…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Equal Education, Higher Education
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Zaccaron, Rafael – Online Submission, 2017
This article reports the initial findings of an MA in Applied Linguistics on the effect collaborative and individual strategic planning have on performance of an oral task by young learners of English as an L2 in Brazil. Strategic planning (Ellis, 2003, 2005) is an important concept within the task-based approach (TBA), as this condition may…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Pessoa, Rosane Rocha; de Urzeda Freitas, Marco Tulio – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This article is based on the conception of language teaching as a liberatory practice. Drawing on some principles of critical pedagogy (Ellsworth, 1992; Freire, 2005; hooks, 1994; Norton & Toohey, 2004), critical applied linguistics (Pennycook, 1990, 2001), critical language teaching (Ferreira, 2006; Pennycook, 1999), and critical language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Hirano, Eliana – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This paper compares the rhetorical organization of research article introductions in Brazilian Portuguese and in English within a subfield of Applied Linguistics. Using Swales' (1990) CARS model as an analytical tool, this exploratory study investigated 20 research articles. The findings indicate that introductions in Brazilian Portuguese tend to…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Differences, English for Special Purposes, Portuguese
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Salomão, Ana Cristina Biondo – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
This article presents some of the results of a qualitative research project about the influences of the pedagogic strategies used by a mediator (graduate student in applied linguistics) in the supervision process of a Teletandem partner (undergraduate student in languages) on her pedagogical practice. It was done within the project…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching
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Cavalcanti, Marilda C. – AILA Review, 2004
The aim of this paper is to present perspectives in Applied Linguistics (AL) against the background of a historical overview of the field in Brazil. I take the stance of looking at AL as a field of knowledge and as a professional area of research. This point of view directs my reflections towards research-based Applied Linguistics carried out from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Educational History
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Cohen, Andrew – ESPecialist, 1986
Reviews the results of research on English as a foreign language conducted in Brazil using verbal report data to examine the cognitive processes and strategies people use in reading and writing. Offers suggestions for future research on the topic. (NKA)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
Gomes de Matos, Francisco – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1980
Describes the structure and functioning of the "Centro de Linguistica Aplicada do Instituto de Idiomas Yazigi" of Sao Paulo and comments on its role in promoting applied linguistics studies in Latin America. Also outlines the Center's historical background and its educational services, particularly those related to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Education Service Centers, English, English (Second Language)
Scott, Michael R.; And Others – 1988
This paper examines the context of critical reading and considers how it can best be taught. The paper also includes some reflections on the current "state of the art" in critical reading in an English for Special Purposes (ESP) or English as a Second Language (ESL) context. The paper details a series of attempts to develop a set of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Educational Objectives
Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 2000
This issue contains the following articles: "Resumption and Last Resort" (Joseph Aoun); "Existentials, A-Chains, and Reconstruction" (Norbert Hornstein); "How Long Was the Nineteenth Century" (David Lightfoot); "Formal Features and Parameter Setting: A View From Portuguese Past Participles and Romance Future…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French
Barbara, Leila, Ed.; Rajagopalan, Kanavillil, Ed. – Revista de Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada, 1999
These issues include the following articles: "Portuguese Philology in Brazil" (Heitor Megale, Cesar Nardelli Cambraia); "Implications of Brazilian Portuguese Data for Current Controversies in Phonetics: Towards Sharpening Articulatory Phonology" (Eleonora Cavalconte Albano); "Morphological Studies in Brazil: Data and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Holmes, John L. – ESPecialist, 1986
Discusses recognition of cognates used in teaching materials prepared by the English for Specific Purposes Project for academic courses. Presents suggestions based on theoretical considerations of cognate recognition. Examines, by way of protocol studies, how foreign students of English make use of cognate recognition. Suggests that strategies for…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)