Review of four manuals currently available for the teaching Portuguese as a foreign language
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Keywords
textbooks; portuguese as a foreign language; teaching methodologies; communicative competence.
Abstract
Despite the new technological resources for teaching foreign languages, the textbook is still a privileged instrument; it guides the contents of the syllabus, the competences to be developed, and allows to monitor the progress of learning. Textbooks have acquired new responsibilities for their users. The times, challenges and demands have changed. Teaching language content is not enough. A textbook has to be a facilitator of the skills development and its choice should be cautious. Four teaching Portuguese as foreign language textbooks have been analyzed, and it is observed that they all emphasize the study of grammar and present different activities concerning communication development skills, being more engaged with new pedagogical approaches, therefore more attractive. However, one may clearly notice that they still keep a traditional plan and layout and do not consider the use of new technologies.
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Ana Nunes, University of Macau
Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Portuguese at the University of Macau. She holds a PhD in Clinical Linguistics and has extensive experience as a teacher of Portuguese linguistics and Portuguese as a second language. Her main areas of interest are phonetics, voice, prosody and teaching and learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language.
Maria Isabel Matos, University of Macau
Has master's degree in the area of Foreign Language Acquisition and a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Didactics of Foreign Languages). She has a long experience of teaching Portuguese as a foreign language to Chinese learners at different institutions in Macau. She has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Macau for 13 years. He worked in the area of teacher training. She is co-author of manuals for teaching Portuguese as a foreign language.