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Applying Effective Teaching Strategies in Dual Language Immersion Portuguese Classrooms
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Bell'Aver, Jessica; Rabelo, Edson – Hispania, 2020
Due to the relevance of the discussions on the use of counterbalance for content-based and form-focused second language instruction, the purpose of this study is to present some pedagogical strategies to teach and reinforce the correct use of articles, gender and number of nouns in Portuguese when teaching Language and Arts (first grade) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Portuguese, Teaching Methods
Nominal and Verbal Agreement in Portuguese: Differential Outcomes of a Focus on Language in a Fourth-Grade Immersion Class
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Child, Michael W.; Bateman, Blair E. – Hispania, 2020
Immersion students' language abilities are generally characterized by strong receptive skills (listening, reading) and less developed productive skills (speaking, writing) when compared with L1 speakers of the immersion language (e.g., Allen et al. 1990; Cummins 1998; Harley 1992). In this paper we report results from a six-month mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Grammar, Portuguese, Second Language Learning, Error Correction
From the Classroom to the Newsroom: A Course-Sheltered Project in Foreign Language Journalism.
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de Ataide Melo, Cecil L. – Hispania, 1992
An approach to teaching the rudiments of amateur journalism in an intensive language (Brazilian Portuguese) program component of a university Masters of International Business Studies program is reported. Ways that such a project can contribute to the fostering of a communicative language teaching curriculum are discussed. (LB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Immersion Programs, International Trade