The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to host this virtual Portuguese K-12 Pronunciation Workshop for educators! Teachers who participate will receive 2 contact hours or .2 CEUs. Open to all teachers but most suitable for Spanish language K-12 educators who wish to incorporate Portuguese in the classroom.
Led by André Zampaulo, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton, this 2-hour workshop will provide an overview of the sound patterns of Portuguese, including its most salient dialectal manifestations in Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa, as well as contrastive examples with the sounds of Spanish. The workshop will deepen participants’ understanding of Portuguese content to use in the K-12 classroom. There will also be time for Q&A.
Registration will open Monday, May 17, 2021 and will close Monday, May 31, 2021, or when we have reached 25 participants*. Space is limited. Accepted applicants will receive a confirmation email with Zoom link on June 1, 2021.
*If we have reached 25 participants, you will be placed on a waitlist. If you have any questions, please contact vocal.4@osu.edu.
André Zampaulo (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. His research focuses on Romance linguistics, particularly Ibero-Romance phonetics, phonology, dialectology, and historical linguistics. He is the author of Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Os Sons do Português: Uma Introdução Prática à Fonética e à Pronúncia da Língua Portuguesa (Routledge, 2019).
