GODOFREDO RANGEL AND AUTRAN DOURADO: THE ARTIST AND APPRENTICE

The name Godofredo Rangel has been fixed itself in the history of Brazilian literature mainly as Monteiro Lobato's eternal friend and correspondent. Nevertheless, his memory is revered by writers of the same strain as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Autran Dourado. The latter, above all, in more than one occasion, declared having had in Rangel a master in writing, whose guidance had been fundamental to the development of his literary vocation. In the novel Um artista aprendiz (n.t.: An apprentice artist), from 1989, Dourado narrates the trajectory of a novice writer, whose  encounter with the literary personality of Godofredo Rangel, fictionalized by the author in the character of Sílvio sousa, is also decisive. This study consists of the comparison between the testimony of Autran Dourado about Godofredo Rangel and the fictional matter of the novel, searching in them the elements to understand what Dourado and others considered as being a work of mastery in the literary art.

Translation as a resource for the teaching of linguistic diversity in foreign language

Translation has played many roles in foreign language teaching. It has been, on the one hand, considered a fundamental methodological tool, constituting the core of the grammar-translation approach, and, on the other hand, heavily criticized and excluded from the classroom, whether from the practical or the theoretical point of view. Currently, with the communicative approach to language teaching, the study of language varieties has become very important to the learner, and considering the need to understand and interpret the meaning of a word within a specific socio-cultural context during the translation process, it is of paramount importance to acknowledge sociolinguistic variations in the text to be translated. Thus, our goal is to show, through a reflective analysis, that translation can be an educational resource for the teaching of linguistic diversity in foreign language. This study isbased on theoretical assumptions on translation dating from the time of Cicero and Saint Jerome to the present times.

LITERATURA INFANTIL PARA UMA FORMAÇÃO LEITORA MULTICULTURAL

This essay aims at presenting some reflections on the compositional structure of two children literary works based on African-Brazilian theme and their implications on the elementary school reader’s background. The selected works are "The Little Kings of Congo" (2007), written by Edimilson Pereira de Almeida, and "Africa, my little Chaka" (2006) by Marie Sellier, and translated by Rose Freire D'Aguiar. Our basic principle is that, during the formative process in reading and culture, the structural organization of children's literature work comes as a factor that can trigger more or less interest from this reader under construction in the early grades. The educator who wishes to educate proficient readers should know and explore the structural, linguistic and contextual aspects from the literary text so the student can deduce their meanings. These studies are based on sociological aspects of reading, as Freire (2006) and Silva (1998), of culture in Hall (1997), of training reader through children's literature in Zilbermann (2003), Abramovich (1983), Aguiar and Bordini (1993), Cademartori (2009), Coelho (2000), among others. It is also bring into account that the school is the locus of ethno-racial diversity and the Afro-Brazilian children's literature, when present in this context and properly handled, can create opportunities to train children to be proficient readers; to give knowledge concerning the African culture and promote respect for differences, since the early school years.

A INTERNET COMO FERRAMENTA PEDAGÓGICA NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO E APRENDIZAGEM DE LÍNGUA INGLESA

A informação e a comunicação tornam-se cada vez mais relevantes no atual contexto, e, por conseguinte, novos canais para transmiti-la são necessários. O computador e a Internet já não são apenas ferramentas de trabalho e entretenimento, seus aplicativos também modificam os paradigmas na educação visto que criam novas formas de ensinar e aprender. No ensino e aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa o uso de diferentes materiais disponíveis na Internet, quais sejam; arquivos de áudio, vídeo, textos autênticos, imagens entre outros permitem aos aprendizes maior contato com a língua que estudam. Norteado pela perspectiva Construcionista de educação, em que o uso do computador como ferramenta de aprendizagem contribui para a construção de conhecimento do aprendiz, este trabalho apresenta reflexões sobre o uso da Internet no ensino e na aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa. Para tanto fundamentamo-nos em estudos de Piaget (2003), Papert (1994), Valente (1993, 1999, 2002, 2003), Altoé (2005), Saviani (2001), Paiva (2001, 2008) entre outros. Ao longo dessas leituras o repensar sobre a formação do professor de línguas a fim de possibilitar-lhe condições para atuação crítica com tecnologias é apontado como um dos fatores para mudança na educação. Até porque, para que o computador e a Internet sejam utilizados como ferramentas pedagógicas, o professor de Língua Inglesa precisa encarar esse ambiente virtual novo e desafiador como uma alternativa para construção de conhecimento nesse idioma.