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“É melhor fazer aula com um falante nativo?”

5 de janeiro de 2021

“É melhor fazer aula com um falante nativo?” — pergunta o leigo. E hoje é com ele que vou falar. Você com certeza já deve ter visto cursos de inglês que anunciam aulas com professores nativos. Será esse de fato um diferencial? Vamos pensar aqui: se fosse o contrário e você fosse dar aula de português para...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

Native speaker fallacy, native speakerism, native teachers, professor nativo

What sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology can do for you / PART 1

17 de maio de 2018

by Teresa Carvalho

Before you read it, think quickly: Why do learners think native speakers make better teachers? Now let me share something with you: I have recently come across some works by sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists — as well as social theorists, and I began to wonder why I had not related the latest developments of linguistic...Read More

Reflections about Education

ideal-speaker, ideologies, linguistic-anthropology, linguistic-repertoire, native speakerism, sociolinguistics

And you know what else, she’s a Carioca

5 de maio de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. Now that’s something to be proud of: not only did I survive (mostly unscathed) one of the world’s most dangerous cities, but I also get beaming smiles and even hear some bossa nova tunes when I tell foreigners that’s where I’m from. So being from Rio...Read More

Career

equality, native speakerism, NES, NNES, non-native English language teacher, prejudice