Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro is a five-week long online self-access course whose aim is to expand intercultural awareness and develop upper intermediate/advanced reading and listening comprehension skills regarding Brazilian Portuguese as a foreign language. An extra week was added to expand the topics of the course. From a pluralist perspective, the course aims at exploring cultural topics and linguistic diversity. The course activities are based on contextualized use of Brazilian Portuguese in several communicative situations. Oral, written and multimodal texts are used to develop reading and listening comprehension skills, which requires prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese. The course also focus on vocabulary and grammar expansion, pronunciation awareness, meta-cognitive skills and critical thinking.
What you'll learn
enhanced reading comprehension in Brazilian Portuguese
improved listening skills in Brazilian Portuguese
expanded vocabulary and grammar knowledge
increased awareness of pronunciation
developed critical thinking skills
Course objectives
to expand intercultural awareness
to develop upper intermediate and advanced comprehension skills in Brazilian Portuguese
to explore cultural topics and linguistic diversity through course activities