Portuguese & Language for Specific Purposes

Supporting Portuguese and Language Study for Specific

Purposes

Mary Risner, Ed.D. University of Florida

LASA 2013 mrisner@latam.ufl.edu

Connecting/Sharing: information/resources

Collaborating with Portuguese professional associations

Professional Development (K-16)

LSP- practical application of the language for the workplace

Getting Involved with Portuguese Initiatives

Portuguese is booming…

http://moreintelligentlife.com/blog/robert-butler/brazil-great-or-is-it

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Enrollments –Modern Language Association (MLA)

http://www.mla.org/cgi-shl/docstudio/docs.pl?flsurvey_results

Enrollments Across Languages

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Maybe not “booming”, but growing steadily in the U.S.…

MLA-Portuguese by State

MLA-Portuguese by State (cont.)

Connecting & Sharing

Portuguese Newsletter

Portuguese List-Serve

Twitter

PublicationsUF/UNM

www.ensinoportugues.org

Pointers on Portuguese. ADFL Bulletin, 2012O português do Brasil nos Estados Unidos dos anos de 1940. Hispania, 2013Portuguese Study in Higher Education in the United States. Hispania, 2012Ensino de Português nos Estados Unidos: História, Desenvolvimento, Perspectivas (book)

Publications

Collaboration

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) www.aatsp.org

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL Special Interest Group) www.actfl.org

Association of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP) www.aotpsite.org Sociedade Internacional de Português como Língua Estrangeira (SIPLE) www.siple.org.br

Professional Associations

Professional Development/Integrati

on at K-12

Flagship/NRC K-12 Teacher Institute

https://startalk.umd.edu/programs/search?sort=name&language=Portuguese

STARTALK

University of North Georgia-Portuguese Summer Program

Concordia Villages-Portuguese

Middlebury Language Schools

Other Programs

Conference Sessions

Promoting Proficiency(Celpe-Bras, Caple)

http://celpebras.inep.gov.br/inscricao/

Resources-Business Portuguese

http://faleportugues.ning.com/

Resources-Business Portuguesewww.nble.org

Languages & Careers

Preparing Global Leaders Through

the Spanish Classroom

Cristin Bleess-Coloradocristin.bleess@dcsdk12.org

How to set-up a Spanish for Leadership program at your

public school

Spanish in the Community and the Workplace-Wisconsin, Katrina Beeck

Spanish for Leadership-Florida, Danika Cornelius

Spanish for Careers- Connecticut, Juanjo Vazquez-Caballero

“C” for Careers

Brazil is a global leader…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcZ2kDh7TSA

Why Study Portuguese?

mrisner@latam.ufl.edu

@langforcareers@ensinoportugues

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/maryrnsb/portuguese-lsp-

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