期刊名称:Intercâmbio. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem. ISSN 2237-759X
印刷版ISSN:2237-759X
出版年度:1999
卷号:8
期号:0
页码:1-14
出版社:Intercâmbio. Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem. ISSN 2237-759X
摘要:In this article, we examine the ways two teachers of English use Portuguese and English in their foreign language classrooms. First, we identify how much English and Portuguese they use. Second, we identify the communicative functions of the two languages in their speech. Finally, we also look at the teachers’ beliefs toward the use of Portuguese and English in the classroom. Findings indicate that the teacher of the public school used Portuguese as the medium of instruction whereas the teacher of the private school used both Portuguese and English. However, both share the idea that learning English is learning grammar which might have generated the high frequency of the metalinguistic utterances in their speech.