Focusing on enhancing listening skills in second language education, this book combines research findings with an exploration of teachers' beliefs and practices. It critically examines textbook materials and provides practical activities designed to improve listening instruction. By bridging theory and practice, it aims to equip educators with the tools necessary for effective teaching in this essential area of language learning.
In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological moments— historicity and globality —which are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively. By displacing historicity’s ontological prerogative, Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the present global power configuration because it institutes moral regions not covered by the leading post-Enlightenment ethical ideals—namely, universality and self-determination. By introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of globalit y, Toward a Global Idea of Race provides a new basis for the investigation of past and present modern social processes and contexts of subjection. Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego.
Organized around themes of particular relevance for Portuguese language
learners, this textbook develops students' writing competence in a range of
textual genres and features sources drawn from across the Portuguese-speaking
world-literary, journalistic, or otherwise.
Game Changer is a four-level lower Secondary course designed to give young
teens all the confidence they need to prepare them for a world where critical
thinking, great communication skills and creativity are key. With its fresh
and fun approach to global real-world topics, Game Changer is designed to help
teachers prepare stimulating and easy-to-teach lessons that will ensure lower
secondary teenage students are motivated and engaged throughout the school
year. Cross-cultural reading topics, in-context language presentations,
scaffolded speaking and writing tasks, opportunities to develop competencies
such as learner autonomy, critical thinking and creative thinking are
guaranteed to develop learners' global awareness and encourage a learning
mindset. The latest digital resources are all in one place on Cambridge One.
This self-study guide includes an introduction to Brazil; 7 carefully-paced
and practical lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, and phrases; review
exercises with answer key; Brazilian Portuguese-English and English-Brazilian
Portuguese glossaries; and online MP3 audio files for free download featuring
pronunciation by native speakers.
