This articles discusses some of the results of a qualitative ethnographic research on foreign language teacher's conceptions of culture in an extension course for continuing education in the virtual collaborative learning ...

Teletandem is a virtual, collaborative, and autonomous context in which two speakers of different languages use the text, voice, and webcam image resources of VOIP technology (Skype) to help each other learn their native ...

Considering the issue of university student mobility, we would like, in this work, to reflect on the specific aspects of teaching and learning Portuguese Foreign Language (PLE) in both immersion context and outside, from ...

This project was inspired by the influence of the mass media on society today. The main objective was to introduce a meaningful and communicative environment in the classroom by applying authentic material from the mass ...

This paper discusses the need for language learning methods designed to capitalize on the rich cultural diversity of students. It introduces basic subjectivist teaching principles and shows how these were successfully ...

Based on the principles of autonomy and reciprocity, Teletandem connects language teaching with technology, by furthering interaction between college students aiming at providing a virtual context for language teaching and ...

The aim of this paper is to present a reflection on the specifics of teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) both in the context of immersion and outside it, from the observations carried out in two stages: first, ...

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, ...