Viajando atraves do alfabeto: A Reading and Writing Program for Intermediate to Advanced Portuguese

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Description

Making use of Dicionario do viajante insolito by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar as a point of departure, Viajando aims to help students develop reading comprehension and oral and written comprehension of Portuguese, filling a much needed void as a reader or complementary intermediate text. 

Features

The book is divided into 26 units (one for each letter of the alphabet) each presents a story or cronica  and  1) pre-reading exercises to encourage students to converse 2) post-reading activities to be done individually or in groups 3) grammar and vocabulary review. Students are also encouraged to write about their own travel experiences, and to reflect on Brazilian culture, as well as American.

Market

Intermediate (to advanced intermediate) Portuguese Language and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. Third year and above.

About the Authors

Dr. Sobral was educated in Brazil and the United States. She is undergraduate concentration advisor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, a member of the Advisory Board of the Writing Fellows Program, and an active member of the Center for Language Studies. Dr. Sobral also leads workshops in Brazil several times a year using the ArtsLit approach for second language acquisition.

Dr. Jouët-Pastré is a Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and undergraduate advisor in Portuguese. She has taught at the University of Campinas, Brazil, where she also received her BA and MA, as well as at Stanford and Princeton Universities. She is the author of many articles on language acquisition and Brazilian culture and cinema. She is the co-author, with Patricia Sobral, of a Portuguese textbook, Ponto De Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language.

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