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Porto, Melina; Byram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent articles on the problems of 'locus of enunciation' have focused on research and publication as well as on theoretical development of the concept. It is an issue in teaching and learning too, and this is the focus of this article which argues that to reject teaching approaches in 'the South' because they come from 'the North' is, first,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study reports on the evaluation of long-term impact of four intercultural citizenship projects undertaken in university foreign language classrooms. Curricular developments based on Byram's intercultural citizenship theory have demonstrated the immediate impact including the development of self and intercultural awareness, criticality, social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice
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Porto, Melina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
This paper reports a bilateral university project designed to promote intercultural citizenship and foreign language development simultaneously. It is concerned with developing active and responsible citizenship through content-language integrated learning within an ordinary foreign language classroom. The need and rationale for broadening the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Citizenship, Social Justice
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Porto, Melina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This article shows the potential of the Council of Europe's Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters and Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media to develop quality education in the (foreign) language classroom in Higher Education. Whereas the literature focuses on their contributions to fostering intercultural awareness and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Autobiographies
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Porto, Melina; Yulita, Leticia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
This article describes an online project in the foreign-language classroom in which Argentinian and British university students communicated across the globe to address a topic of human rights violations. The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether there is a place in language education for forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Civil Rights
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Porto, Melina – Education 3-13, 2018
This article describes a telecollaboration project about the environment in the primary English as a foreign language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and Denmark. It combines English language teaching with intercultural citizenship education and forms part of a network of projects in Europe, the US and East Asia. This is the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Porto, Melina; Byram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
The purpose of the project described here is to demonstrate how the introduction of subject matter and principles from citizenship education into foreign language education combines objectives from both in order to give meaning to language education on the one hand and extend citizenship education beyond a focus on the local and the national on…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Principles
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Porto, Melina – Intercultural Education, 2014
The work presented here is an empirical study of how advanced learners of English as a foreign language in Argentina access and understand the culture-specific dimensions of literary narrative texts. It has three purposes. First, to extend research into reading in a foreign language to take account of the culture-specific content of texts. Second,…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Intercultural Communication, Investigations, Literary Criticism
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Porto, Melina – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
The aim of this study was to learn from students' frame of reference how they experience foreign language classes. Data include learning diaries written during 2005 for more than 35 weeks (March to November). Subjects were 95 Argentine, Caucasian, mostly female, middle-class, Spanish-speaking College students between 19 and 21 years of age who…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Personal Autonomy, Diaries