Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ564080
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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Critical Language Awareness in the Teaching of Portuguese.
Leal, Maria Christina Diniz
Language Awareness, v7 n1 p1-8 1998
Reports a two-phase project aimed at developing critical language awareness through the teaching of Portuguese. During the first phase, 13-year-olds in a Brazilian state school evaluated their Portuguese lessons, and identified features they felt needed altering to develop critical awareness of language and social reality. Changes were proposed and then implemented in the second phase. (Author/VL)
Descriptors: Action Research, Citizenship, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Language Tests, Metalinguistics, Portuguese, Power Structure, Prior Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Change, Student Attitudes, Tests, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil
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