This article examines the role of foreign language teachers in education for living

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 paper examines the notion of linguistic competence within the context of developing professional standards for foreign language teachers. It focuses on specific language deficiencies recorded during observation of ...

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, ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the identity of foreign language (FL) pre-service teachers in two distinct contexts: Brazil and Chile. A multiple case study methodology was used to investigate how foreign language ...

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 article pays tribute to foreign language teachers in Trinidad and Tobago who, in most cases, have to teach in very challenging circumstances, yet still manage to display true dedication to their work

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. ...