Communication is a key for human development. Nevertheless, deaf people have difficulty interacting with hearing and hard of hearing people. On the other hand, new technology allows gesture recognition. This work aims ...

This text aims to discuss the cultural component in teacher training courses of Spanish and Portuguese foreign languages. Through qualitative research, it is proposed to analyze how two training courses for language teachers ...

This research focuses on the justification of bringing the linguistic contact into second language classrooms. In particular, we show our own experience by taking Spanglish from the United States into a Spanish as a foreign ...

Sign languages are natural languages used mostly by deaf and hard of hearing people. Different development opportunities for people with these disabilities are limited because of communication problems. The advances in ...

Teletandem is a telecollaborative learning context that involves pairs of native (or competent) speakers of different languages interacting through voice, text and webcam image. Using Skype, each participant plays the role ...

Teletandem is a virtual autonomous webcam-based context (image, voice and text), where two students help each other learn their native (or other) language through intercultural and linguistic collaboration. In this paper, ...

This communication focuses an educational intervention in the classroom of Spanish as a Foreign Language (E/LE) held at the Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP - Campus of Araraquara - Brazil, with the aim of presenting ...