Publication Date
1986
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
First Advisor
Donald Freeman
Abstract
This project is the result of efforts to set up a teacher training program for the Centro Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos de Curitiba in Brazil. It is especially designed for teachers who have been using teacher-centered classroom techniques and the traditionally structured approaches to teaching, and who are willing to change to a student-centered communicative approach to teaching English.
In chapter one, I give a general overview of the program Iset up and a short description of the Centro. I also state the reasons why I decided to set up this teacher-training program for the Centro.
In chapter two, I describe the training program, giving a detailed week-by-week description. In the training program, trainees reevaluated their personal assumptions about language, learning, and teaching. Micro-teaching activities and a shock language experience were also of great importance. They helped trainees to review their teaching, guiding it to a more student-centered communicative approach. Emphasis was given to the functional notional communicative approach to teaching ESL. To finish this chapter I make some suggestions for changes in this program.
In chapter three, I describe my conclusions about the program, about my work, and the effect it had on me professionally and personally.
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Business | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | International and Comparative Education | Teacher Education and Professional Development
Recommended Citation
de Paula Santos, Alberto, "A Teacher Training Program Focusing on Communicative Methodology for Brazilian Teachers of English as a Foreign Language" (1986). MA TESOL Collection. 645.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/645
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, International and Comparative Education Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons