This text presents a multi-case study focused on 5th and 6th grades' (10 -12 years-old students) teachers' beliefs and practices towards the process of teaching and learning grammar. Current practices of grammar instruction are connected to prescriptive approaches, outdated, disconnected from linguistic theory, and ineffective at improving communicative skills. Research has revealed that to promote real changes in practices it is important to act upon all the dimensions of teachers' professional knowledge, including tacit phenomena, like beliefs, by means of professional training and development. The recent modification of the Portuguese Language curriculum reflects a new paradigm in grammar teaching, based upon a constructivist approach. Therefore, it is relevant to know how teachers implement it and how what they think about teaching grammar affects their practices. Data analysis revealed inconsistencies between beliefs and practices, leading to the conclusion that teachers have difficulties facing the required adjustment to the emerging paradigm.Portugal, the situation seems to be similar. On the one hand, the results of a study on teachers' positioning towards Portuguese Language teaching (Duarte, 2008) have 15 Santos Ferreira
A revisão da literatura aponta que a sexualidade é entendida como algo inerente, sendo constituída ao longo da vida. Sexo é expressão biológica que define um conjunto de características anatômicas e funcionais (genitais e extragenitais). A construção do que é pertencer a um ou outro sexo, se dá pelo tratamento diferenciado para meninos ou meninas, inclusive nas expressões diretamente ligadas à sexualidade e pelos padrões socialmente estabelecidos. Esses padrões são oriundos das representações sociais e culturais construídas a partir das diferenças biológicas dos sexos e transmitidas pela educação, o que atualmente recebe o nome de relações de gênero. O intuito deste trabalho é averiguar o quanto os alunos são influenciados pelos conceitos culturais que estabelecem o que é adequado em relação ao gênero e se agem em conformidade a eles. Trata-se de uma pesquisa quanti-qualitativa, por meio da aplicação de um questionário a alunos do sétimo ao nono anos de escolas públicas da Cidade de Cláudio. Os resultados apontam que esse tema tem que ser mais debatido e aprofundado em todos os segmentos educacionais. E a Educação Física especificamente deve cumprir um dos objetivos gerais da no ensino fundamental, que por meio de sua práxis deve levar os alunos a participar de atividades corporais, estabelecendo relações equilibradas e construtivas com os outros, reconhecendo e respeitando características físicas e de desempenho de si próprio e dos outros, sem discriminar por características pessoais, físicas, sexuais ou sociais.
Mentoring is valued in foreign language learning, as it is based on the recognition of the benefits of the interaction between peers. This paper aims at presenting the results of a mentorship experience thought for a Portuguese as a Foreign Language course in higher education, in 2017/18. The mentees are Erasmus students attending these courses. This initiative was developed through the preparation of mentors, structured sessions of interaction between mentors and mentees, a reflection upon the experienced process and the administration of questionnaires to the participants. Data were collected through direct observation, following a naturalist observation protocol. There was a content analysis of the answers for open questions and a statistical analysis of all answers. Results suggest the existence of positive effects of the mentoring program, such as the individual, social and linguistic development of the mentors, the mentees' integration and learning of Portuguese and the interpersonal relationship in both groups.
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