Welcome to the Web Site for the 2nd Symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Acquisition and Teaching!

Portuguese for Spanish Speakers is the fastest growing field in the teaching of Portuguese, both in the United States and abroad, and has been the subject of an increasing number of publications and conference presentations. It is, however, far from possessing an established and unified body of knowledge based on research.

Aiming to start mapping this body of knowledge, the First Symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers took place from March 21-23, 2003, at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Two years later, the time has come to meet again. The goal of the Second Symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Acquisition and Teaching is to give scholars in field an opportunity to come together to further discuss the development of an organized body of knowledge on the acquisition of Portuguese by speakers of Spanish and to generate a coherent and successful approach to the teaching of Portuguese to this population.

In addition to two keynote addresses by the renowned scholars Milton Azevedo and Elizabeth Bernhardt, the Symposium will include the following nine roundtable discussions:

    Table I - Past, Present and Future of Teaching of Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
    Table II - Acquisition and Teaching of Phonetics and Phonology of Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
    Table III - Acquisition and Teaching of Lexical, Syntactic, and Morphological Components of Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
    Table IV - Acquisition and Teaching of Lexical, Syntactic, and Morphological Components of Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
    Table V - Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in Portuguese by Spanish Speakers
    Table VI - The Voice of the Learner in Language Acquisition of Portuguese by Spanish Speakers
    Table VII - Approaches to Design and Practices in Portuguese Programs for Spanish Speakers
    Table VIII - Assessment of Linguistic Proficiency in Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
    Table IX - The Other Side of the Coin: Spanish for Portuguese Speakers

For details on the presentations for each table, please click on Program tab above.

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