Centro de Formação de Escolas do Concelho de Almada - ALMADAFORMA - PORTUGAL

List of the team

• Adelaide Silva – Director of the Teachers Training Center of Almada;
• Ana Josefa Cardoso – Trainer and researcher in Portuguese language for non native persons
• Tiago Machete - Trainer and researcher in Portuguese language for non native persons
• Vanda La Salete – Trainer and researcher in Portuguese language for non native persons
• Rui Baltazar – Expert in ICT;
• Celina Busto  - Teacher of Portuguese, at the  elementary school and Expert in Adults Education;
• Maria Filomena Galvão – Teacher of Portuguese as native language, in the secondary school.
•  Cláudia Vaz - Lecturer in Anthropology (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). Working on  qualitative methodologies (especially participatory methodologies).

Target/s

• Classes attended by adults who are not native speakers just arrived in Portugal (learning Portuguese as L2 in institutional educational structures)
• Classes with adults learning Portuguese
• Foreign students at the university
• Teachers of Portuguese as a foreign/second language

Aims:

• Teachers training in the area Portuguese as L2, and Portuguese for foreign people  and spread this contented in all the schools of our municipality;
• To create and share, several didactic materials to introduce and experiment in different educational levels;
• To elaborate different proposals for language teachers writing their language autobiography and for its analysis;
• To develop different methods/tools to help teachers and learners in writing language autobiographies;
• To create and implement materials for promotion and development of  plurilingualism through the use of language autobiographies.
• Dissemination of the contents of the project in a local, regional, national and international, by different ways: newsletter, newspaper, web site and  social network.