21 articles in this issue
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Rosane Silveira
Introduction: the multiple facets of language studies
Ricardo Augusto de Souza,Jesiel Soares-Silva,Gustavo Garcia Silva
In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond eit... see more
Ana Paula Petriu Ferreira Engelbert,Denise Cristina Kluge,Adelaide Hercília Pescatori Silva
Voice quality results from the modulation of vocal tract articulators and laryngeal activity and produces a long-term efect in speech production and perception. Bilingual speakers can alter voice quality when speaking diferent languages, according to... see more
Thais Cristófaro Silva,Marco Aurélio Camargos
This article discusses the appropriation of rhotics in English-L2 spoken by Brazilian speakers. he results show that rhotics are quickly incorporated into the English-L2 speakers’ production. A detailed examination of the data indicates that the... see more
Rosângela Gabriel,José Morais,Régine Kolinsky
Can learning to read change the information process and expand the storage capacity of the human brain? The purpose of this article is to review and to discuss models of memory (working memory, short term and long term memory) in their relation ... see more
Maria da Gloria Tavares
The present study is part of a larger scale research (Guará-Tavares, 2011, 2013) that investigates the relationship among working memory capacity, pre-task planning, and L2 speech performance. The aim of the study was to analyze 1) what processes learners... see more
Karen Pupp Spinassé,Daniele Blos Bolzan
This paper presents data from a study that proposed peer review in ESL writing to an 8th year elementary class in a Bilingual School in the South of Brazil. his research aims at analyzing the collaborative activity students engaged in while revi... see more
Lisiane Ott Schulz,Tânia Maris de Azevedo
This article shows the results of a study that aimed at verifying how much B2 proiciency level students, according to the Common European Framework of Reference, understand their teachers’ speech. It also aimed at identifying teachers’ and stude... see more
Luciana de Oliveira Silva
This paper, a fragment of a doctorate research, aims at investigate possibilities for building collaborative approaches to / from the virtual environment, contributing to the development of teacher in training technological competence as well as... see more
Cristiana Gomes de Freitas Menezes Martins,Vládia Maria Cabral Borges,John Michael Levis
The purpose of this study was to develop and test the reliability and validity of an instrument to evaluate the extent to which software programs teach English as a Foreign Language and/or Second Language (EFL/ESL) pronunciation following the principles o... see more
Vanderlei J. Zacchi
Based on the book Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics (Block, Gray & Holborow, 2012a), this paper aims at discussing the relationship between these two concepts. After a general discussion on the subject, the paper will deal with the use of celebri... see more
Nikolay N. Boldyrev Boldyrev,Olga Georgievna Dubrovskaya
The paper explores basic properties of language that can be explained by appealing to its main functions, namely, cognitive, communicative, and interpretive. Although the irst two functions have always been recognized, it is only recently that t... see more
Maria Carmen Aires Gomes
This article analyzes the designations chosen by the vehicles Tititi, R7 Site and Site G1 to represent the MC’s Xuxu, Transnitta and Banana Woman and the issues about trans people, sexuality and gender, generated on the basis of textual and disc... see more
Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo,camila alvares pasquetti
This article presents a critical reading of the text “Best in Travel 2015: Top 10 cities” and its translation to Brazilian Portuguese, both published online in 2014 by one of the world’s largest tourism publishing houses, Lonely Planet. The study aims at ... see more
Sinara de Oliveira Branco,Iá Niani Belo Maia
This paper relects on literary translation, taking into account the efects caused by the needs of the publishing market, which pinpoint what must be translated and how, inluencing the formation of cultural identities. In order to achieve this ai... see more
Kelvin Falcão Klein
The aim of this article is to present some of the results of a research study involving the concepts of repetition, originality and translation. he results presented here are engaged in a critical reading of the theory of Anglophone matrix. he b... see more
Juliana Cristina Salvadori,Mônica Santos Silva
This work focuses on the translations of Cummings’ work made by Brazilian poet, critic and translator Augusto de Campos between the 1960s and the 2010s, highlighting how this long-term project (comprehending 5 editions, namely 10 poemas, 20 poem... see more
Andreana Marchi,E. Doyle McCarthy
The problem of “culture” in the process of intercultural understanding is one of the most discussed issues among scholars today. Anthropologists, linguists, literary critics, and philosophers, just to name a few, study this issue in a problem-based and re... see more
Rosângela Gabriel
Trata-se de uma resenha do livro "Consciousness and the brain: deciphering how the brain codes our thought", da autoria de Stanislav Dehaene, publicado em 2014, pela Editora Vicking nos Estados Unidos.