Illustrating the Intercultural in Portuguese Secondary School Foreign Language (FL) Classrooms

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Ulisses, Carla (Author) Other; Hurst, Nicolas (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: e-Teals : an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies

No. 7

Pages: 40-69

ISSN: 1647-712X

Publisher: CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > language sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1515/eteals-2016-0007

Abstract (EN): This article reports on a small-scale action research project developed in the context of the practicum of a Teacher Education Masters course at the Faculty of Letters, the University of Porto. The project was focussed on the importance of visual stimuli in the foreign language teaching classroom (English and Spanish), within the context of an intercultural approach. Different strategies, activities and materials were employed with the general aim of helping the learners to develop their critical cultural awareness. The learners played a central role, participating actively, by bringing into the classroom their own knowledge of the world. Simultaneously, the role of the teacher was not without importance in this action research project, presenting herself as an example of a cultural mediator.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific