English In Brazil

Author : Kyria Rebeca Finardi
Publisher : SciELO - EDUEL
ISBN 13 : 8572168761
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English in Brazil: written by Kyria Rebeca Finardi and published by SciELO - EDUEL. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discussion of the role of English in Brazil is at the center of the discussion of the changes recently experienced in that country which is going through a moment of political awakening. Many are the claims and demands of the society and insomuch as educational reform is involved, there seems to be a general recognition that the role of English in that country must be reviewed in language policies and programs so as to meet these demands. Brazilian government funded rograms such as the English without Borders have been created as an attempt to readdress the perceived imbalance in terms of the o er of English courses. Despite the importance of this program in the national scenario, it is not available for all levels of education nor for all tertiary population. e chapters in this book describe di erent views, actions and programs in relation to English in Brazil and which show that the discussion of the role of English in that country summarizes many political, social and economic claims of the population and tensions in the country which help to understand the current scenario in Brazil in relation to globalization. With a population of over 200 million people and many challenges (and possibilities) in the economic and educational sectors, the discussion of the impact of globalization in Brazil (and the role of English within it) represents a relevant glimpse into to the struggle of other developing nations and the world in general.

Author : Gilberto Freyre
Publisher : Boulevard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781899460618
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English in Brazil written by Gilberto Freyre and published by Boulevard Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British influence on nineteenth-century Brazil was so prevalent it gave rise to the complaint that it was 'Londonising our land'. Previously isolated by the Portuguese to control the colony's riches, everything changed with Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 -- King Dom João fled to Brazil and opened its ports to the 'friendly nations' with Britain the chief beneficiary. Gilberto Freyre studies the 'gentle, velvet revolution' produced by a multitude of British manufactures, ideas and habits invading the country, from trams, gas lamps, railways, sewers and glass windows, to beer, hats, bread, butter, afternoon tea, the use of knives and forks and the habit of daily shaving. This pioneering piece of research takes the premise that eminent personages and great events only tell one side of the story, and that to see the influences of one culture on another demands a study of more shadowy characters and 'significant details'. Mechanics, firemen, engineers, sailors, traders and other 'Cinderellas of history' here reveal the less grandiose but more human aspects of cultural influence. Working along lines advocated decades later by historians like Carlo Ginzburg and Natalie Davis, Freyre makes the point that apparently minor, irrelevant facts of daily life in the home, in workshops, on the railways and in newspaper advertisements can be an excellent way to access a culture's past. The book is written in Freyre's extremely personal, unorthodox style vivid, sensuous yet colloquial -- which established him as one of the masters of twentieth-century Portuguese prose.

Author : Rebeca Finardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788572168823
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English In Brazil - Views, Policies And Programs written by Rebeca Finardi and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Brazil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521585872
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communicative Value of Intonation in English Book written by David Brazil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.

Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230120733
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil on the Rise written by Larry Rohter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.

Author : Ignacy Sachs
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807894117
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Ignacy Sachs and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization. All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies of social and economic inequality remain to be addressed in the new century. A foreword by Jerry Davila highlights the volume's contributions for a new, English-reading audience. The contributors are Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Cristovam Buarque, Aspasia Camargo, Gilberto Dupas, Celso Furtado, Afranio Garcia, Celso Lafer, Jose Seixas Lourenco, Renato Ortiz, Moacir Palmeira, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Ignacy Sachs, Paulo Singer, Herve Thery, and Jorge Wilheim.

Author : Telma Gimenez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503855
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education written by Telma Gimenez and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.

Author : A. J. Hald Madsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching English in Brazil written by A. J. Hald Madsen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Fox
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546285717
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vamos a Brasil! written by Mike Fox and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a visit to Brazil by Mike and his wife, Sylvia, in January 2008. Sylvia is a trained and experienced teacher; Mike is not, but he knows a smattering of Portuguese. They were invited to teach English in a mission school in the industrial city of Belo Horizonte, and the story covers their exploits and attempts to teach a lovable but very lively class of students from all over Brazil. Most of the action is set in and around Brazils fourth largest city, but they did board an eccentric train ride to the Portuguese colonial mining town of Ouro Preto. The icing on the cake was their last day spent in Rio and one of its favelas. They arrived in Brazil knowing no one, and they left having made a lot of friends.

Author : Osmar de Almedia-Santos
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781810074
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazilian Portuguese-English/English-Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary & Phrasebook written by Osmar de Almedia-Santos and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual dictionary and travel-oriented phrasebook focuses on the Portuguese of Brazil, which is spoken by more than 170 million people worldwide -- Back cover.