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Carlos Henrique Trindade

We don’t live in boxes

30 de setembro de 2019
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
Chaos. That’s what the world is all about. We spend our whole lives trying to organize what cannot be organized. We want to predict the unpredictable. We believe we can have control over our lives but there is no control. We have been doing the same with Education for centuries. We try to put knowledge...Read More
Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education
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Waiting for the world to change

27 de maio de 2019
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
You probably have heard of the term Glocalization, which translates the idea of thinking globally and acting locally. It seems obvious, and it doesn’t seem something difficult to do. But yet we continue to find excuses not to do it. Especially here in Brazil, our culture is one where we expect changes to come from someone above...Read More
Bilingual Education, Classroom Management, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

The best bilingual we can be – Part 1

27 de abril de 2019
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
It often strikes me when there is a very emotional talk about bilingual education here in Brazil and we tend to criticise what we have been doing here compared to what is being done elsewhere in the world. My opinion is clear: adopting an international bilingual education model “as is” here in Brazil is not...Read More
Bilingual Education, Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development
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What I have been learning from my baby boy – part 3

27 de novembro de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
Murilo’s journey to bilingualism has been an enormous learning opportunity for me, and an extraordinary field for me to put into practice many theories related to bilingualism and bilingual education in the 21st century. Murilo, now 4 years old, masters the comprehension of the English language typically spoken by me. There are some terms that...Read More
Reflections about Education
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People are still struggling with the role of Grammar in bilingual education…

27 de setembro de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
It is amazing how difficult it is for us to let go of old habits, old beliefs, traditional ways of doing things. That is not different with teachers… although one might expect it to be. Recent and not so recent studies about language acquisiton have pointed out the importance of acquiring a language in a...Read More
Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development
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Translanguaging – what is it?

27 de julho de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
One of the most intriguing new concepts around bilingual education in the 21st century is translanguaging. According to Ofelia Garcia in her book Bilingual Education in the 21st Century – A Global Perspective, translanguaging is “the act performed by bilinguals of accessing different linguistic features or various modes of what are described as autonomous languages, in order to...Read More
Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

In Search of a Latin American Identity for CLIL

27 de junho de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
CLIL has been the starting point for the majority of bilingual education programs and methodologies across the globe. Born in 1994 with the establishment of the European Community, CLIL was an attempt to standardize bilingual education approaches within the comunity, or at least to determine a range of  practices that, based on a common concept,...Read More
ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT
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The Generation Z Invades Schools

27 de abril de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
This year, 2018, is a landmark. Schools across the globe, from kindergarten to high school, starting this year, have now only students from the Generation Z. That is, young people in school age were all born in the 21st Century. That brings us the need to understand this generation, the way they act, the way they behave, the way...Read More
Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development
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Bilingual education – the path to a new school

27 de março de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
When Ofelia Garcia in her book Bilingual Education in the 21st Century – a Global Perspective  states that “bilingual education is the only possible education in the 21st century”, what does she mean by that? Is she saying that she envisages a future with only bilingual schools? Bilingual Education, for a lot of people, is...Read More
ELT Management, Reflections about Education

What I have been learning from my baby boy – part 2

27 de fevereiro de 2018
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
One important thing I learned from my baby is that laziness starts from a very early age. Having been talking to him only in English for more than 2 years now, I can notice his incredible understanding of my production in spoken English. He understands nearly everything I speak to him, reacts appropriately to commands,...Read More
Reflections about Education
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