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Gláucia Silva currently works at the Department of Portuguese, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Gláucia does research in Portuguese as a heritage language.
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The use of nonbinary gender markings has generated conservative reactions from various sectors of Brazilian society. By using the word "outres" in her inauguration speech at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Heloísa Teixeira brought to light the relevance of the debate about nonbinary language in Portuguese. In this article, we analyze comments pos...
Resumo: Os debates sobre o uso de formas não binárias incluem a possibilidade ou não de alterar regras existentes ou adicionar novas formas ao conjunto de normas da língua que viabilizam a
expressão de identidades e a possibilidade de existências. No entanto, o uso de formas não binárias é visto por muitas pessoas como algo que transgride a norma c...
In heritage language (HL) education, testing for administrative motives (i.e., student placement) has received special attention (Fairclough 2012b), and with good reason. Given the heterogeneity that characterizes HL learners, it is important to be
able to place them adequately. However, it is also important to be able to determine whether learning...
Na região de Boston, nos EUA, tem havido uma série de oportunidades de formação para os professores de Português como língua de herança (PLH). No entanto, muitos participantes expressam um senso de desconexão entre aspectos teóricos e os seus contextos de ensino em propostas episódicas de desenvolvimento profissional (Silva & Costa, 2018). Tendo em...
Narrativas de professores/as de Português Língua de Herança
De acordo com Schwarzer e Petrón (2005), os aprendizes de línguas de herança (LH) tendem a extrair muito pouco do tipo de instrução gramatical normalmente empregado em aulas de língua estrangeira (LE). Essa falta de aproveitamento é esperada porque, segundo Parodi (2008), o repertório linguístico dos aprendizes de LH lhes permite usar a língua para...
Research on learner perception has shown that foreign language (FL) learners consider formal grammar study quite important (SCHULZ, 1996). However, we know little about perceptions and beliefs of heritage language (HL) learners in what relates to grammar instruction. In a qualitative study on HL instruction at the college level, Schwarzer and Petró...
As línguas com gênero gramatical apresentam desafios bastante específicos para os que as aprendem como língua estrangeira (LE) ou como língua de herança (LH). Alguns estudos, no entanto, sugerem que a semelhança morfológica pode facilitar a aquisição do gênero em LE (SABOURIN; STOWE; DE HAAN, 2006). O contexto de aprendizado linguístico também pode...
It is now accepted that heritage and foreign language learners have different instructional needs (Carreira, 2012; Parodi, 2008; Valdés, 1981; among others), and that, ideally, these two groups of learners would attend separate classes designed to help each group develop their linguistic and cultural abilities. However, administrative constraints m...
Resumo A pesquisa sobre as características morfossintáticas do Português como língua de herança (PLH) é relativamente recente. No entanto, já temos informação sobre diversos aspectos aspectos linguísticos do PLH, indo da (não) aquisição do infinitivo pessoal (Rothman, 2007; Pires e Rothman, 2009) ao papel do input na realização do modo subjuntivo (...
Professor, Língua, Herança, Ensino do Português.
Understanding teachers’ thoughts and beliefs may be a tool to help prepare teacher training programs. Community-based school
teachers, especially those who work with less commonly taught
languages, do not have frequent access to professional development opportunities. Faced with the varied and specific needs of heritage learners, these instructor...
In M. Milleret & M. Risner (Eds.), A handbook for Portuguese instructors in the U.S. (pp. 161-194). Roosevelt, NJ: Boavista Press. 2016
https://www.boavistapress.com/books
This paper reviews findings about linguistic features of Portuguese as a heritage language (PHL) in contact with English and German. The paper reviews some of the issues that have been uncovered in relation to morphosyntatic and sociopragmatic knowledge among heritage speakers of European and Brazilian Portuguese. The paper also discusses a few pos...
This article discusses perceptions of and performance in listening by a group of heritage and non-heritage learners of Portuguese. Our data include a survey containing background information and perceptions about listening, two listening tasks and a post-task self-report on how learners arrived at their answers. Quantitative and qualitative analyse...
Language textbook for learners who may work in Brazil or do business with Brazilian companies
Innovative. The adjective, used in the preface (25), accurately describes this grammar, which does not resemble any other that I have seen. “Impressive” would be another good descriptor for this 768-page volume—not because of the number of pages, but because of its richness and its depth. This is a comprehensive volume dedicated exclusively to the...
Over the past four decades, scholars have debated the pedagogical and sociolinguistic needs of heritage language learners. It is widely accepted that these learners present several characteristics that are different from those of foreign (or non-heritage) language learners. However, scholars have also pointed to similarities between the two groups...
A coletânea organizada por Ana Maria Carvalho é uma contribuição até agora única aos estudos linguísticos relativos ao português. Como aponta a organizadora, esta é a primeira obra a se dedicar ao estudo do português em situações de contato. O livro traz à luz artigos a respeito da língua portuguesa nos quatro cantos do mundo—literalmente. A coletâ...
Many learners of Portuguese at colleges and universities across the United States are speakers of Spanish, be it as first, second, or heritage language. However, materials for this large population of students are quite limited. In this scenario, a textbook such as Pois Não, written specifically for this audience, provides a serious option for thos...
(From Hippocrene.com) Brazilian Portuguese is spoken by over 180 million people world-wide, and Brazil is most popular tourist destination in South America. Learn quickly with seven practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary and exercises. This title is accompanied by two audio CDs with native Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Although many believe that immigrants are resistant to giving up their language, just the opposite is true: heritage languages are typically not maintained and are rarely developed. This study contributes to the discussion of heritage language maintenance (or loss) by looking at the use of Portuguese by individuals who immigrated to the U.S. as chi...
The newest addition to intermediate/advanced Portuguese language textbooks by Focus Publishing is based on Moacyr Scliar’s Dicionário do viajante insólito, which is a compilation of crônicas related to travels. Taking these crônicas as a starting point, the authors of Viajando através do alfabeto have developed grammar, style, and writing exercises...
The knowledge generated by studies in discourse analysis is rarely
brought into the teaching of business communication in a foreign
language. Instead of presenting learners with "samples" of
language after which they will pattern their production, foreign
language instructors may invite learners to analyze the interplay
between text and context in...
Cinema for Portuguese Conversation, written in Brazilian Portuguese, presents a series of activities which lead to discussion and analysis (if somewhat superficial) of each movie. The textbook is designed for intermediate and advanced students, as explained in the introduction. It presents a total of 14 movies grouped into five different sections t...
In a study of the perception and production of the subjunctive, heritage and nonheritage
learners of Portuguese completed four different types of written tasks, besides a
questionnaire to determine their linguistic background and some of their beliefs about their own
language abilities. Participants were enrolled in college language courses, in thr...
This paper reports on a study exploring the authentication of L2 Portuguese materials. Three Portuguese learning communities engaged in a process of development of critical thinking about the notion of relevance of L2 materials and about discourse-analytic features related to suggestion-making. The data gathered during this study include questionna...
Portuguese native-speaker production of suggestions in the workplace is examined and used as a back- ground for the exploration of how heritage and non-heritage learners of Portuguese produce and perceive this speech act. Central to our analysis is how these different groups of Portuguese users attend to the demands of power and politeness in sugge...
Research in discourse analysis has shed light on the multifaceted presence of repetitions in discourse. This paper adds to this discussion by examining the repetitions in the discourse of a learner of Portuguese in three different settings: the Portuguese language classroom, conversation sessions, and interviews. Data analysis shows that the forms...
This paper describes a peer-mentoring program in a large language department. Experienced Teaching Associates (TAs) served as peer mentors to novice TAs, providing the type of individualized guidance that new TAs need. The peer mentoring model has several advantages over the supervision-only model, including one-on-one help, multiple classroom visi...
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is unique among Romance languages in that it allows null direct objects where other Romance varieties require clitic pronouns, as in Eu comprei Ø ontem, 'I bought (it) yesterday' (cf. Spanish Lo / *Ø compré ayer). This paper presents quantitative corroboration of a prior qualitative semantic / pragmatic analysis of BP anap...
Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is unique among Romance languages in that it allows null direct objects where other Romance varieties would require at least a clitic pronoun. Although the correct syntactic analysis of null objects in BP has been debated extensively, there has been virtually no discussion of their semantic/pragmatic characteristics. This...
This book is a contribution to syntactic theory. The reader will find a clear overview of the central facts concerning Brazilian Portuguese (BP) word order, as well as a comparison to the facts in other Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French). In relating other Romance languages to BP, the book shows that BP word order has a number of inte...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 302-308).
