CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Maria Helena Vieira Abrahão is graduated in Letras from the University of São Paulo (1972), is master in Applied Linguistics from the Campinas State University (1992) and ph.d. in Applied LInguistics from the Campinas State University. (1996). Se woks as lecturer and supervisor in the Linguistics Graduate Program of the São Paulo State University, in the São José do Rio Preto campus.She has experience in Applied Linguistics, acting on the following subjects: foreign language teacher education, beliefs, foreign language teaching and learning, and reflective approach. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Language learning in-tandem involves pairs of speakers of different languages working collaboratively in order to learn each other's languages. Each of them plays the role of student of the target language he/she wishes to learn (the language in which his/her partner is competent) and teacher of his own language (the one his/her partner wishes to learn). We called this process teletandem …
This project has the aim of a longitudinal qualitative inquiry, interpretative in nature, on the English language teacher education process under a sociocultural perspective. The participants are three undergraduates majoring in English and Portuguese languages at a Brazilian state university. The selected instruments and procedures entail focus groups, internship journals, academic paper…
Technological advances, the Internet in particular, have broken the physical barriers of the classroom. There is a need to understand the role of language teacher in this new teaching and learning context and, more importantly, teachers need to feel secure with regard to new tools which are available (FREITAS, 2005; BRAGA, 2007; COLLINS, 2009; HALL & KNOX, 2009).This project aims to inves…
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 lang…
This study is part of a major research about language teacher education from a sociocultural perspective. The research design comprises a longitudinal study based on narrative inquiry. Data are generated from oral narratives and written accounts. The participants are three undergraduates attending a language teacher education program at a public university in Brazil. The longitudinal stud…
This investigation, of interpretive nature, aims at studying the theoretical-practical knowledge construction by language teachers under a sociocultural perspective, to understand how the dialogical process of knowledge construction which emerges from situated social, cultural and historical contexts is characterized. It takes place in a continuing education project which is offered to En…
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