The “Currículo Mínimo – Língua Estrangeira” (2012) aims at promoting interdisciplinarity, majorly with the discipline of...

The second and first paragraphs are linked by a notion of contrast, which is explicitly conveyed by the linking word "though” (2nd paragraph). The con...

Question address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)The use of authentic materials in ...

Consider the following sentence from a student’s essay. “The theme of this short story make us see the beauty in another vision.” (source: a real stud...

“Scaffolding” (Nuttall, 1996, p.36) is a process that “focus on enabling students to develop”. In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nut...

Learners of English as a foreign language usually have problems in distinguishing between oral and written English. Oral language typically displays a...

In “Dimensões Comunicativas no Ensino de Línguas", Almeida Filho (2007) discusses the types of competence a language teacher should achieve. For the a...

According to the “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais”, communicative competence is composed of the following three types of knowledge:

The "3 million people in the country qualified for help under the self-employed support scheme” (2nd paragraph) includes the following group of people...

Question address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)When choosing texts for the readin...

In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nuttall (1996, p. 39) presents some reading strategies. According to the author, some of them are ...