The “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais" claim that learning a forei...

Considering the expression of happenings in the past, verbs vary following time precision or imprecision. The example extracted from the editorial tha...

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...

The conceptual difference between “method” and “approach” is an interesting point to start discussing English language teaching. According to Richards...

Question address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs) . The three basic building blocks...

Suppose you are correcting some literary essays. In one essay, you find the following extract.“It begins with the Giant coming back to his garden afte...

In the article “Ensino de Línguas: passado, presente e futuro”, Vilson Leffa (2012) predicts a certain “invisibility” to teachers in the future. Accor...

Consider the following noun phrase: ‘the only navigable river’. Suppose a student asks you if there is a difference in meaning if ‘navigable’ is place...

In “Oficina de Linguística Aplicada”, Moita Lopes (1996) discusses the concept of “self-ful?lling prophecy”, presented by Rosenthal and Jacobson in 19...

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

Assuming that current language teaching tends to be eclectic in terms of approaches and that this might result in inconsistent and unfounded practice,...