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For decades now, in the context of teacher education, we have been discussing the importance of paying attention to the fast and profound changes both in society and in people’s personal lives, as a consequence of the widespread use of new digital technologies. Yet, not much has changed in schools, where traditional teaching still rules. Students continue to be more knowledge consumers than active knowledge producers; besides, the use of technology for educational purposes remains as either a threat or an unattainable goal. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has compelled educational institutions to rethink the role of technology in education. In this article, we comment on the crisis that has struck higher education and how it has set our institutions and ourselves, as professors and teacher educators, into a deep process of rethinking our past practices and reimagining our future.

This paper aims at presenting and discussing some potentialities and projections of the use of instructional resources for teaching Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL) with videos of Brazilian youtubers. These kind of videos are considered as authentic materials, which bring out, through samples of real-life language in use, opportunities to develop the linguistic-communicative competence in the teaching context of PAL. Besides, they facilitate the work with different dimensions of the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. Based on the theories of critical literacy in language teaching (Duboc, 2012; Menezes de Souza, 2011; Monte-Mór, 2012; 2013), we aim at developing learner’s linguistic-communicative competence by making use of critical-reflexive practices. This contribution is part of an ongoing project to elaborate instructional materials for teaching PAL.

Nessa conversa, o professor, Lynn Mario Trindade Menezes de Souza, titular da FCH/FLUSP, dialoga com xs organizadorxs do Dossiê sobre a amizade/parceria/colaboração acadêmica com a Professora Walkyria Monte Mór e sobre o Projeto Nacional de Letramentos que é um dos frutos dessa parceria. A partir de provocações baseadas em sua participação no V Encontro do Projeto Nacional de Letramentos, Lynn pensa o contexto contemporâneo e o futuro das pesquisas que se situam na interface de linguagem, sociedade e educação, abordando conceitos como lugar de fala/posição enunciativa, epistemologias da experiência, cidadania ativa, ocupação ontológica e decolonialidades, além de destacar a importância das releituras de Paulo Freire.

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