UCP Professors provide online training to Non-Maternal Portuguese Language Teachers from the USA

The Universidade Católica Portuguesa, represented by the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH), is collaborating in two distance learning sessions for Teachers of Portuguese as a Non-Mother Language (PNML), on November 5 and 6.

The FCH professors, Ana Margarida Abrantes and Joana Meirim, lead the first two sessions, focusing on grammar and literature. On November 5, Professor Ana Margarida Abrantes talks about "Grammar with meaning. Ideas for teaching grammar in context", in a session that takes place at 9 p.m.

In the next day, "Literature in the foreign language class. Challenges and added-value" is the theme of Professor Joana Meirim's workshop, which takes place at 10 p.m. and can be attended through this link.

The teachers at UCP, are the authors of several works dedicated to the teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PFL) and have extensive experience in teaching PFL.

These workshops are dedicated to the training needs of Portuguese as a Non-Mother Language teachers in the USA, but can be seen for free by anyone interested.

The online training sessions are an initiative of the Training Plan of the Portuguese Teaching Coordination in the USA (CEPE-USA), with support from Camões, Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P. and Fundação Luso Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD), in collaboration with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, LIDEL and Porto Editora.