Pluralities in Brazilian Portuguese: Exploring Diversity in Language Learning in Virtual Courses

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Public lecture with Dr Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha, State University of Campinas, CNPq, Brazil

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Abstract

In this talk, Dr Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha explores the concept of Language MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and presents the current challenges for research and educational practice in this field. She also situates the discussion by presenting the main features of Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro, a LMOOC focused on reading and listening skills for intermediate learners of Portuguese as a foreign language. The course is guided by the notions of language as a situated and context-bound practice and of learning as a collaborative process of reshaping knowledges and meanings. The interconnected presence of a multiplicity of multimodal resources – such as  written and oral language, images and videos -  a central characteristic of the course design, represents a move towards the recognition of  modes  other than language as constitutive elements  in communication and learning in foreign language courses. As part of the presentation, Dr Hilsdorf Rocha also discusses the multimodal design of the MOOC in order to approach the challenge to create Language MOOCs aimed at the learning of oral academic literacies in present times.

Some of the event may involve Portuguese as well as English, for example during the Q&A.

About the speaker

Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha is Associate Professor at the Applied Linguistics Department, University of Campinas, Brazil. She holds a PhD degree in Applied Linguistics and her main field of interest includes foreign language teaching and learning, literacies and education technology. She presently holds a research productivity scholarship granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and her current research is on translanguaging, oral academic literacies, and foreign language learning in digital environments.

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