Viajando atravs do alfabeto: A Reading and Writing Program for Interm. Portuguese

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Viajando atraves do alfabeto: um olhar uses "Dicionario do Viajante Insolito" (the little yellow book) by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar as a point of departure and aims to help students develop reading, oral, and written comprehension of Portuguese, filling a much needed void as a reader or complementary intermediate text. The book is divided into 26 units (one for each letter of the alphabet) each presenting a story or cronica Each unit has pre-reading exercises to encourage students to converse, post-reading activities to be done individually or in groups, and grammar and vocabulary review. Students are also encouraged to write about their own travel experiences, and to reflect on Brazilian culture, as well as American.

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Patricia Sobral is Senior Lecturer at Brown University, Educated in Brazil and the United States, her teaching interests include intersection of the arts and its applications to second language acquisition, Brazilian literature of the 20th century, and contemporary Brazilian film. Dr. Sobral is undergraduate concentration advisor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, member of the Advisory Board of the Writing Fellows Program, and an active member of the Center for Language Studies. She leads workshops in Brazil for second language acquisition. Clemence Jouet-Pastre received her PhD from the University of Sao Paulo and has taught at Stanford, Princeton and the University de Campinas, Brazil. She is currently Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her research interests include Brazilian culture and cinema, computer assisted language learning, Portuguese linguistics and immigration studies.