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NationalTeachPortugueseWeek 2022
 

National Teach Portuguese Week! 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 

National Teach Portuguese Week is a week-long event to be held Monday, October 31 - Friday, November 4. The program highlights student and faculty teaching and engagement with Portuguese language and culture(s) in the US and abroad.  

The purpose of National Teach Portuguese Week is 

1. To promote the teaching of Portuguese as a profession.
2. To encourage the study of Portuguese in the US.
3. To emphasize the importance of Portuguese as a world language.
4. To celebrate the diversity of the Portuguese-speaking world.

 

View archives and videos from the 2020 and 2021 National Teach Portuguese Weeks. 

Click here to read an article in Language Magazine (pp. 40-41) written by NTPW co-chairs Renato Alvim and Rachel Mamiya Hernandez on the importance of NTPW.

We are excited to announce that we are working with the Center for Brazilian Studies (CEB) at the Universidad de Salamanca on special events for our Portuguese teachers and lovers of Portuguese for our 105th AATSP Annual Conference (June 26-29, 2023). Explore all the resources offered by CEB including their broadcasts on Radio Universidad and their short story competition "Cuéntame un Cuento". 

 
NATIONAL SURVEY OF PORTUGUESE PROGRAMS
 
To view the interactive map, click here.
Source: The National Flagship for Portuguese (UGA).

 

 

National Teach Portuguese Week 2022 will be co-chaired by Renato Alvim, Portuguese Representative on the AATSP Board of Directors, and Rachel Mamiya Hernández, AATSP President. 

 

 Just in time for NTPW, the Sociedade Honorária de Língua Portuguesa, also known as Phi Lambda Beta, has a new logo. For more information about the AATSP's collegiate honor society for Portuguese, click here.

 

GET INVOLVED WITH #NTPW2022! 

 

Webinars and Resources 

 

Você é artista! A língua portuguesa, as artes e aprendizagens afins

  • Panelists: Claudia Lyra, PhD student, Brazilian Portuguese and Arts (BRAPA) San Diego, CA; Ninfa Parreiras, Lecturer, Centro Educacional Anísio Teixeira (CEAT) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Vania Castro, Senior Lecturer, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  • Moderator: Renato Alvim, Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus, CA
  • Tuesday, November 1 at 7 pm Eastern Time. 
Recording

 

Revisitando o papel do input e output em aquisição de Português como língua adicional: práticas e abordagens

  • Presenter: Caio Albernaz Siqueira, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
  • Moderator: Florencia Hanshaw, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
  • Wednesday, November 2 at 6:30-8:00 pm Eastern Time.
  • Hosted by the Downstate Illinois AATSP Chapter.

Recording 
 
 

Making Space for Plurality and Inclusion in the Portuguese Language Classroom

  • Join this webinar hosted by Heritage Language Exchange on Thursday, November 3 at 4:30 pm Eastern Time.
  • Panelists: Camila Almeida, Universito di Bologna; Eugenia Fernandes, University of California, Davis; Leonardo de Oliveira Silva, CSU San Marcos; Tatiana Dutra e Mello, University of San Francisco
  • Moderator: Rachel Mamiya Hernández, University Hawai'i at Manoa

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