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 ...

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 ...

The Brazilian document Orientacoes Curriculares do Ensino Medio (OCEM) values the plurality and heterogeneity of the language, the contact with the other and the reflection on cultural diversities. Therefore, the aim of ...

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 ...

Of the 1,000 plus languages of the Americas, 70 are in use across the 29 territories of the Caribbean, including both the archipelago and continental rimlands (Allsopp 1996). Linguistic situations of the Caribbean are ...

The process of teaching English has become an important challenge for the Colombian Ministry of Education. Through the last years, there have been several bilingual programs with the objective of having students finish the ...

Public education policies governing language revitalization and the teaching of indigenous languages have been in place for more than 20 years in Chile. In this journey, there has been considerable progress nationwide in ...

Linguistic landscape (LL) is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the significance of words, images and other artifacts represented and displayed in public spaces (Shohamyand Gorter, 2009). Such instances ...

This article aims to clarify some important points concerning the teaching of culture in the foreign languages teaching. Language and culture are closely related and it is not possible to communicate effectively in a foreign ...