Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do SulInstituto de Letras

Estágio em Língua Inglesa IIProf. Simone Sarmento

Teaching Project for Indigenous Students

Joana LuzNathália Gasparini

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

General Objectives

● Deal with their indigenous context in higher school, identity and culture

● Literacy in English and in Portuguese● Not academic genres

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.

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.

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.