segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2015

II Encontro do PIBID - UTFPR


Nos dias 16 e 17 de outubro nossos Pibiders participaram do "II encontro do PIBID na UTFPR Campus Curitiba".
 
Durante esses dias foram desenvolvidas várias atividades, desde Palestras e Minicursos até apresentações de pôsteres dos trabalhos desenvolvidos nas escola em que cada Pibider realiza suas atividades.



segunda-feira, 2 de março de 2015

Hello Pibiders!!

This time we will read the article “The Intercultural Approach to EFL Teaching and Learning” by Zofia Chlopek. In this text, she demonstrates the importance of cultural issues in English as a Foreign Language (EFL), as well as gives some examples of activities to cross-cultures.

During the introduction, Chlopek (2008, p.10) asserts that “communication that lacks appropriate cultural content often results in humorous incidents, or worse, is the source of serious miscommunication and misunderstanding”. Have you ever faced any situations like those (humorous incidents or miscommunication and misunderstanding)? Could you tell us what happened and why did it happen?

Now, here are some questions about the text. Please, choose one of them to answer. Then, interact with your friends’ answers making comments.

1) The author makes a distinction between big-C culture and small-c culture. In your own words, differ these kinds of culture and give one example for each one.

2) What is the intercultural approach? Why is this approach necessary in the teaching and learning a foreign language?

3) Characterize the general stages to implement the intercultural approach in an EFL classroom.

4) What are the possible problems that should be considered and the ways to deal with them when implementing the Intercultural Approach? Do you agree with these problems and ways? Are there any other problems and ways to deal with?

5) After reading the article and the examples of activities suggested by Zofia Chlopek, give an example of activity in the Intercultural Approach. Don´t forget: there are three general stages.


I hope you enjoyed the reading.
See you
XOXO

Marina

terça-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2015

Dear friends

Hope everybody is fine and ready to return to our enjoyments here at UTFPR. Also hoping you are reading academic texts and planning to improve your own researches this year. 

Recently I have sent you an article about the use of literary texts for teaching English: “A imbricada relação entre língua e literatura: o texto literário na sala de aula de língua estrangeira”… I suppose you have already read it…

Very well! As you should know, that subject is kind of controversial, since there are people who agree on the issue and others who do not. By verifying the tone in which the authors wrote the text, one may suppose that they really defend the use of those texts for teaching English.

One of the questions I would ask is exactly this: Would you defend that practice or rebel against it? Why or why not? 

Other questions would be:

- This text explores the activity of teachers during the process of teaching English through literary texts, and tries to grasp something about what are the students’ responses about it. What are the results of their research?
- How would you explain Ferradas’s words on page 269?
- What are the arguments in favor of teaching language through literature? In other words, according to the authors, what are the positive points about literature and teaching?
- If you were supposed to write an article about the intricate relation between literature and English teaching, what would you write about? Explain in details.

We are looking forward to hearing from you… choose one or two of these questions to discuss argumentatively. By the way, why not to formulate other questions to your classmates?

(You can answer in Portuguese or in English)

May the world go well!!
Take care!!

sábado, 10 de janeiro de 2015

Hello “Pibiders”!  

 
How have you been?
            Well, hoping everybody is fine, happy and enjoying vacation. Yes, after a long and demanding year of study as 2014 was, you desserve a very nice vacation.
            However as you know PIBID doesn’t stop. Thus, we’re here, again, to restart its activities or start the PIBID 2015 activities.
This year is our second year of PIBID –Edital 2013- so it’ll be a very important period: a period to learn and share knowledge  about English  and English language teaching, as well as about English teacher education.
In sum, we’ll read a lot, assist teachers in English language classroom in schools of Pato Branco/PR, elaborate didactic material and reseach.
 
How about starting by reading?
            Yes? So, we propose a new discussion forum- the first of  2015-  by reading and debating about “critical literacy”, since the understanding of this concept and approach is crucial to understand and construct knowledge on how to teach English in the contemporary world in Brazilian schools.
            According to Jordão and Fogaça (2007) in the text you are going to read called “Ensino de Inglês, letramento crítico e cidadania: um triângulo amoroso bem sucedido”,  critical literacy is conceived as a reading teaching approach which privileges  the construction of meaning  of a text by means of the understanding of interaction and power relations in it.
            Of course, the understanding of the definition of critical literacy above should  also be deepened. So that, we invite you to read Jordão and Fogaça’s (2007) text carefully and, then, answer and discuss the questions below.
 
a)      How do the authors conceive and relate “language”, “text” and “the teaching of reading comprehension”? (Como os autores concebem e relacionam “língua”, “texto” e “ensino de de leitura”?)
b)      What are the implications of the authors’conception about “language” and critical literacy to students’ development as English learners and citizens? (Quais são as implicações da concepção dos autores sobre “língua” e “letramento crítico” para o desenvolvimento de alunos como aprendizes de Inglês e como cidadãos?)
c)      In the critical literacy teaching approach of foreign language, the teacher has a political role. Can you explain that based on the text discussion? (Na abordagem de ensino “letramento” crítico”, o professor desempenha um papel político. Você pode explicar essa concepção a partir de sua leitura do texto?)
d)     What is the importance of teaching English in Brazilian schools based on the critical literacy approach? (Qual é a importância do ensino de Inglês em escolas brasileiras baseando-se na abordagem “letramento crítico”?)
e)      The authors offer a model to practice critical literacy teaching approach to the teaching of reading in Englihs classrooms. How is the model constituted? Name and explain each phase of it? (Os autores oferecem um modelo para trabalhar com a abordagem “letramento crítico” nas aulas de Inglês. Como o modelo é constituído? Nomeie e explique cada uma das fases do modelo.
 
You can choose one or the other question to answer. You also can answer it in Portuguese or in English. After that, post your comment and choose one of your colleagues’ answer to comment.
How to post: Como postar:
-Fazer o login no blog para ser um seguidor e poder interagir na página;
- Escrever comentários de 150 a 300 palavras (usar a ferramenta do Word para contar as palavras);
- Responder ao comentário de um colega;
- Fazer as postagens até o dia 15/01/2015.
-Dúvidas, escrevam para o meu e-mail (didiedenardi@gmail.com), please!
 
Cheers,
Profª Drª Didiê Ana Ceni Denardi