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Direct linkSandbulte, Jade; Canagarajah, Suresh – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Research on translingual repertoires has highlighted the diverse semiotic resources that individuals access in communication, but little research has considered how spatial factors permit or limit access to these resources. Furthermore, as translingual studies have predominantly focused on interactional analysis, there is a paucity of studies on…
Descriptors: Spouses, Social Networks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Chamberlain, Bobby J., Ed.; Harmon, Ronald M., Ed. – 2003
This dictionary is intended to bridge the gap between the basic, generally simple language learned in the classroom and the preponderance of nonformal and idiomatic language used in Brazilian society on all levels and in contemporary Brazilian literature. It is the product of 15 years of systematic research involving interviews and conversations…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Idioms, Portuguese
Download full textBarbara, 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
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1976
This profile reviews the state of English language teaching in Brazil. In 1968 the Brazilian government launched major university reforms, and the situation is still fluid. Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and English is learned as a foreign language for international communication, occasionally as a medium of instruction, as a tool…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Developing Nations, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)
Santos, Denise; Fabrício, Branca Falabella – TESL-EJ, 2006
This article discusses an investigation carried out with a group of young learners of English in a Brazilian language school aiming at these individuals' development of critical thinking and their involvement in a de-naturalization process of gender dualism. The study, which took place in an educational context witnessing important changes at both…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Heller, Monica, Ed.; Martin-Jones, Marilyn, Ed. – 2001
Chapters in this volume include the following: "Co-Constructing School Safetime: Safetalk Practices in Peruvian and South African Classrooms" (Nancy H. Hornberger, J. Keith Chick); "Codeswitching and Collusion: Classroom Interaction in Botswana Primary Schools" (Jo Arthur); "Language and Educational Inequality in Primary…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Maintenance, Educational Policy
Kibbee, Douglas A. Ed. – 1998
This edited volume of conference papers contains the following titles: "Presentation: Realism and Idealism in Language Conflict and Their Resolution" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "Legal and Linguistic Perspectives on Language Legislation" (Douglas A. Kibbee); "The Linguistic Rights of Non-English Speaking Suspects, Witnesses,…
Descriptors: African Languages, English Only Movement, Ethnic Groups, Federal Legislation
