Consider the following noun phrase: ‘the only navigable river’. Sup...

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

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

The “Currículo Mínimo – Língua Estrangeira” (2012) has the purpose of developing the following competence in basic school education:

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:

Suppose a student asks you if 'whose' in the following academic passage is wrong. “There is a way of proceeding in conceptual matters whose method is ...

The “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais" claim that learning a foreign language contributes to the learning of the first language. According to this do...

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

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