ENSINO/APRENDIZAGEM PORTUGUES LINGUA ESTRANGEIRA

Ensino/Aprendizagem do Portugues como Lingua Estrangeira is specially addressed to a public of teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language.

Drawing on a corpus of thirteen text books intended for teaching Portuguese as a foreign (or second) language, published in Portugal between 1964 and 2005, we can conclude that there was no straight line progression and that few text-books stressed communication skills. It is now essential to undertake a judicious evaluation of the text-books being produced and to invest in teacher training in this developing area of education.