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, ...

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 ...

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 work studies how linguistic interferences occur in interlanguage in native Spanish-speaking learners of Portuguese as a foreign language at a university in Sao Paulo. The analysis focuses on linguistic interferences ...

This paper presents a study about the role of grammar in on-line interactions conducted in Portuguese and in English, between Brazilian and English-speaking interactants, with the aim of teaching Portuguese as a foreign ...

This paper presents a study about the role of grammar in on-line interactions conducted in Portuguese and in English, between Brazilian and English-speaking interactants, with the aim of teaching Portuguese as a foreign ...

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 ...

In this paper, I report on experiences of Portuguese as a foreign language (PFL) teacher education, as pre-service teacher development, in a language center and teacher development extension project at IBILCE-UNESP. ...

The Portuguese language has gained prominence in the last thirty years, mainly due to the growth and development of training spaces, the rising quantity of publications in the field and the variety of studies focusing on ...