Culture and language teaching: perspectives for in-service teacher education in the project Teletandem Brasil

• Grant number: 09/15071-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2010
• End date: November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Maria Helena Vieira Abrahão
• Grantee: Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 06/03204-2 - Teletandem Brazil: foreign languages for all, AP.TEM

Abstract

The possibility of intercultural communication in our world today, increased by the use of new technologies, brings a significant impact to the way we understand the relationship among language, culture and society. For the area of Applied Linguistics, in this scenario, an important task arises: that of significantly investigating the impact of the current "cultural globalization" on language teaching and teacher education. Thus, we propose a research project which aims at investigating the conception of culture of in-service teachers and their beliefs about the language-culture they teach, as well as the contributions of an in-service teacher education course which comprehends these aspects both in theory and practice. This project is part of the Thematic Project "Teletandem Brazil: foreign languages for all", supported by FAPESP, and it aims at examining the contributions of a hybrid course (virtual/presential) offered by the project Teletandem for in-service Brazilian teachers of Spanish language from public schools, in which cultural aspects were addressed theoretically and practically through synchronous virtual interactions with Uruguayan and Argentinean teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language, presential classes, and activities, forums and chats, in the virtual environment of the course hosted at Teleduc, with Brazilian professors and educators from a public university in the state of São Paulo. We expect to contribute to the Project Teletandem Brazil through the examination of how this teaching and learning modality may assist in-service teacher education, by means of the discussion of the role of the cultural component in current linguistic education. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SALOMÃO, Ana Cristina Biondo. A cultura e o ensino de língua estrangeira: perspectivas para a formação continuada no projeto Teletandem Brasil. 2012. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas. São José do Rio Preto São José do Rio Preto.