Portuguese as an Additional Language in Brazilian federal universities: A profile of the area

• Autor(a) principal: Aurea Martins Marques, Aline
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Roquele Schoffen, Juliana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras de Hoje (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fale/article/view/38778
• topic: Portuguese as an Additional Language; Portuguese as an Additional Language teaching; Internationalization; Portugués como Lengua Adicional (PLA); Enseñanza de Portugués como Lengua Adicional (PLA); Internacionalización; Português como Língua Adicional; Ensino de Português como Língua Adicional; Internacionalização

This article presents a profile of the Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL) area in Brazilian federal universities. Very important for the internationalization process of universities and the attendance of the growing number of immigrants that Brazil has received in recent years, the PAL area is still relatively small in the country. In order to contribute to the strengthening of the area and the acknowledgement of its importance in the educational systems, we present how the field has evolved to its current state and discuss actions and policies that contributed to its growth and consolidation. In the sequence, we present and discuss data generated between November 2016 and July 2017 on the offer of PAL courses at federal universities. Considering the expansion of PAL education in recent years and the lack of published information about its insertion in higher education institutions, we understand the data we present here contribute as an important subsidy for the debate on policies for the institutionalization of the PAL area in Brazil.