Event Details

HL2C-SLLAT Seminar: Paulo Santos, Sónia Valente Rodrigues, Isabel Margarida Duarte, Simone Tomé, Fátima Silva, Ângela Carvalho, Fátima Outeirinho, Luís Fardilha (Porto)

Title: Characterization of Portuguese language heritage teachers: A preliminary study

Presenter(s): Paulo Santos, Sónia Valente Rodrigues, Isabel Margarida Duarte, Simone Tomé, Fátima Silva, Ângela Carvalho, Fátima Outeirinho, Luís Fardilha (Porto)

How to join: The seminars are free to attend. Simply sign up to the HL2C Mailing List or to the SLLAT mailing list to receive the link to join us via Microsoft Teams link. You do not need a Teams account to access the talk.

About: This is a joint event, co-organized by the Heritage Language 2 Consortium (HL2C) and the Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) Research Group.

Abstract:

Research on Portuguese Language Heritage (PLH) teachers around the world has shown that these professionals form a very diverse group in terms of their education and work contexts (Soares 2012; Melo-Pfeifer 2016; Silva 2016; Ferreira 2017). However, detailed and systematized knowledge about these teachers does not yet exist. The aim of the present study was to address this gap. With this purpose, an electronic questionnaire was created for PLH teachers to collect data that would enable these teachers to be characterized, namely in terms of their socio-demographic profile, their academic background, their relationship with other languages and cultures, their professional activity, beliefs about teaching PLH, and their professionaltraining needs. A sample of six PLH teachers from three countries, United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States, was used to test the survey. Following this test, some changes were made to the questionnaire in order to reformulate ambiguous items. This communication will present the preliminary results of the research conducted with this survey and identify areas that need further investment.

Melo-Pfeifer, S. 2016. (coord.). Didática do português língua de herança. Lisboa: LIDEL.

Ferreira, T. 2017. Ensino diferenciado: uma reflexão sobre práticas de diferenciação curricular. (Tese de mestrado não publicada). Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Silva, T. S. 2016. Desafios na aprendizagem do português por estudantes francófonos: diferenças e semelhanças entre aprendentes de português língua estrangeira e português língua de herança. (Tese de mestrado não publicada). Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Soares, S. 2012. Português língua de herança: da teoria à prática. (Tese de mestrado não publicada). Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.