TEACHING PORTUGUESE: NATIVE, FOREIGN AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE

Abstract

In a multilingual and multicultural world, it is important to emphasize Portuguese as a pluricentric language in its different aspects. Learning a language and its new literacies has consequences for the identity of its students. Therefore, it is vital to reinstate the importance of updated theoretical and pedagogical study materials for teachers and educators respecting the linguistic and cultural identities of its students in a constructive dialogue utilizing different learning contexts. Thus, this issue of Diadorim hosts theoretical papers that discuss and problematize the teaching of the Portuguese Language, from the perspective of native, foreign or heritage language. The target audience for the material includes students, professors, and researchers from Graduate, Undergraduate, and Basic Education Programs.