Using children’s literature in ELT: A story-based approach

There has been a growing interest in the role of children’s literature in language teaching since the 80s, when the communicative approach made it possible to bring stories into the classroom (Garvie, 1990). It is undeniable that storytelling has many benefits. Not only are children naturally drawn to stories, but they are also an effective and enjoyable way to teach and learn. This article presents the findings of a MA project on using stories with children. It shows the importance of stories on language acquisition and concludes with some practical suggestions based on my teaching experience with young learners

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature

This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women\u27s Literature

This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality, and desire. Female writers discussed include: Gilka Machado, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Marcia Denser, and Marina Colasanti. While creating new forms, these writers are also deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behavior. In order to understand these myths, the book also presents new readings of some male-authored canonical novels by Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Manuel Antonio de Almeida, and Aluisio Azevedo. The specific focus on female sexuality and desire acknowledges the intrinsic link between sexuality and an individual\u27s sense of identity, and its importance for female identity, given the historical repression of women\u27s bodies and the double standard of morality still pervasive in many Western cultures. In the discussion of the strategies Brazilian female poets and fiction writers employ, Ferreira-Pinto addresses some social and cultural issues that relate to a woman\u27s sense of her own body and sexuality: the characterization of women based on racial features and class hierarchy; marriage; motherhood; the silencing of the lesbian subject; and aging. Ferreira-Pinto\u27s analysis is informed by the works of various and diverse critics and theoreticians, among them Helene Cixous, Teresa De Lauretis, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldua, Georges Bataille, and Wilhelm Reich.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/psrl/1004/thumbnail.jp

Analysis of take-back decisions regarding electrical and electronic equipment waste in Portugal

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os determinantes da decisão de entrega dos EEE em fim de vida para reciclagem, avaliando as motivações e os interesses dos utilizadores destes equipamentos em relação ao mercado de retoma dos EEE em Fim de Vida. Os resultados obtidos indicam que existe uma falta de sensibilidade dos consumidores para o processo de retoma dos seus equipamentos. Por outro lado, mostram que as condições de informação e as características sociodemográficas interferem nos desejos dos consumidores para a devolução dos seus REE. Neste âmbito, pode-se concluir que o mercado de retoma de EEE em Fim de Vida em Portugal se encontra em fase de crescimento nomeadamente ao nível de estratégias de retoma e competitividade.This paper aims to investigate the determinants of consumers’ decision to take-back Electrical and Electronic Equipment Waste in Portugal. It assesses users’ perception of these items, evaluating the motivations and interests they have concerning the market of electrical and electronic equipment waste. Results indicate a lack of awareness by consumers about the process of take-back available for their equipment. On the other hand, results show that information conditions and sociodemographic factors affect consumers' motivations for returning the electrical and electronic equipment at the end of life. In this context, it can be concluded that the Portuguese market for the recovery of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Waste is still in its infancy, particularly in terms of recovery strategies and competitiveness

Reported missing - learners in SLA/EFL research

A very brief overview on research on classroom language learning seems to support Gitlin's statement that Educational research is still a process that for the most part silences those studied, ignores their personal knowledge, and strengthens the assumption that researchers are the producers of knowledge. (1990: 444) Research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in general and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in particular has moved in recent years from “an almost exclusive concern with the teacher and teaching procedures to issues related to the learner and learning processes” (Kübler, 1991: 1). However, the ultimate focus of many of the early studies on learners was still the optimisation of teaching and the development of teaching techniques (Allwright, 1988), rather than an attempt to describe and understand better learners' contributions to the classroom

Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe : — texto orgulhosamente negro

Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian author, has been considered by critics as one of the most important founders of African literature, in reaction to the literature that until then had been produced on Africa. In the sequence of the most diverse colonial literary texts and the arguments that validated colonialism in Africa, always in a dimension of affirmation of white superiority and black savagery, and in which any value, history, or notion of culture was denied to African peoples, Achebe begins a mission to show the western world that pre-colonial Igbo culture had beauty, philosophy, dignity and viable social, political and judicial structures, and that it was by no means an example of the «blank slate» that many Europeans wanted people to believe. In this sense, Achebe publishes his first novel, Things Fall Apart, still in a colonial context (1958), to make his culture known, realistically and based on internal knowledge, in a counterpoint to this prejudiced and racist European devaluation.Chinua Achebe, autor nigeriano, tem sido considerado pela crítica como um dos fundadores mais importantes da literatura africana, numa reação à literatura que até aí tinha sido produzida sobre África. Na sequência dos mais diversos textos literários coloniais, e dos argumentos que validaram o colonialismo em África, sempre numa dimensão de afirmação de superioridade branca e de selvajaria negra, e em que se negava qualquer valor, História ou noção de cultura aos povos africanos, Achebe inicia uma missão de mostrar ao mundo ocidental que a cultura pré-colonial igbo possuía beleza, filosofia, dignidade e estruturas sociais, políticas e judiciais viáveis, e que não era, de forma alguma, exemplo da «tábua rasa» que muitos europeus queriam fazer crer. Neste sentido, Achebe publica o seu primeiro romance, Things Fall Apart, ainda em contexto colonial (1958), para dar a conhecer, realisticamente e a partir de conhecimento interno, a sua cultura, num contraponto a essa desvalorização europeia, preconceituosa e racista

Recrutamento e seleção na Page Personnel

Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos HumanosOs processos de Recrutamento e Seleção são momentos extremamente importantes na vida das organizações e cada vez mais, os recursos humanos das empresas são vistos como uma fonte de vantagem competitiva. A redefinição das estratégias das organizações e o seu recurso à externalização de alguns sectores tem provocado uma presença cada vez maior das empresas de consultoria no mercado, que atuam nas mais diversas áreas da Gestão de Recursos Humanos. Este Trabalho Final de Mestrado faz uma descrição sobre as atividades desenvolvidas no estágio curricular, componente integrante do Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Humanos, que realizei no departamento de Retail e Secretarial & Management Support na Page Personnel, marca pertencente à multinacional PageGroup, que atua na área da consultoria de recrutamento. A reflexão sobre as atividades e conhecimentos apreendidos neste estágio é acompanhada por um enquadramento teórico referente aos métodos de Recrutamento e Seleção praticados pela Page Personnel, empresa que me permitiu ter uma participação ativa nas diversas fases dos processos de Recrutamento e Seleção que englobaram a pesquisa e identificação de candidatos através do e-recrutamento e do head-hunting e a sua avaliação baseada na realização de testes, entrevistas e controlo de referências.The recruitment and selection processes are important moments for organizations and their human resources are seen as a competitive advantage source. The redefinition of organizations strategies and the implementation of outsourcing in some sectors have been increasing the presence of consulting firms in the market, that work in different areas of Human Resources Management. This Final Master Work makes a description of the activities developed during the internship, part of the Master of Human Resources Management, that I realized in Retail and Secretarial & Management Support department at Page Personnel, a brand that belongs to PageGroup, which operates in recruitment consultancy area. The reflection about the activities and knowledge learned at this internship is accompanied by a theoretical framework about the methods of recruitment and selection practiced by Page Personnel, a company that allowed me to take an active part in the various stages of recruitment and selection processes which included research and identifying candidates through e-recruitment and head-hunting and their evaluation based on testing, interviews and references checking