Oral history as a didactic strategy in the teaching of portuguese as a heritage language

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https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v7i00.15462

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Didactic strategies, Oral history, Portuguese heritage language

Abstract

This text presents one of the projects proposed by us in a class of Portuguese as a heritage language, in a university context. This project, and didactic strategy, consisted of the so-called oral history, already widely used in the most diverse scientific areas for a long time, and which we resorted to in the specific context of language teaching. In this text, we will not only present, in general, the theoretical lines that guided us to implement this strategy in the classroom, but we will also describe the project itself and analyze some of the collected information, as a way to demonstrate the potential inherent to the use of this form of action in such a specific, and relevant, field, such as learning a language, in general, and an heritage language, more in particular

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Author Biography

Luciana Graça, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua Portuguesa, (CAMÕES I.P.), Lisboa, Universidade de Toronto (UTORONTO), Toronto

Lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and collaborator of the Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF) of the University of Aveiro.

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Published

08/10/2021

How to Cite

GRAÇA, L. Oral history as a didactic strategy in the teaching of portuguese as a heritage language. Revista EntreLinguas, Araraquara, v. 7, n. 00, p. e021037, 2021. DOI: 10.29051/el.v7i00.15462. Disponível em: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/entrelinguas/article/view/15462. Acesso em: 2 jan. 2025.