Apresentação Estágio Indígenas - Letramento Acadêmico

1. Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul
Instituto de Letras
Estágio em Língua Inglesa II
Prof. Simone Sarmento
Teaching Project for Indigenous Students
Joana Luz
Nathália Gasparini

2. Teaching an Learning context
● English course for indigenous students
● Final goal: academic literacy – Portuguese and
English
● Three students (Pedagogy, Agronomy and
Physiotherapy)
● Two-hour classes on Tuesday nights

3. General Objectives
● Deal with their indigenous context in higher
school, identity and culture
● Literacy in English and in Portuguese
● Not academic genres

4. Specific Objectives
● Read texts were they are depicted: news from “Jornal
da Universidade”, “Zero Hora” and from the Internet
about indigenous students in higher education
● Produce a subtitled video about their lives here, as
students, and there, where they used to live.
● Write the project to be be submited to earn support
from the University to this project.
● Write a text to submit to “Jornal da Universidade” and
to be spread through Facebook about the production
of the documentary.

5. Justify
● Public texts which deal with identity issues
involving them: news
● The need of having texts about them written by
themselves
● In this context, texts in Portuguese and in
English are needed.

6. Project Organization
Unit 1: approach the
subject: indigenous
role in the academic
world.
Unit 3: Video
production.
Unit 2: project
organization and first
final product.