Ponto De Encontro: Portuguese As a World Language (Portuguese Edition)

Ponto de Encontro is the first Portuguese language textbook that gives the student the choice to learn either Brazilian or European Portuguese. While it seeks to emphasize commonalities, Ponto also highlights and preserves important differences in both vocabulary and grammar. This program provides an ample, flexible, communication-oriented framework for a beginning or intermediate student of Portuguese.

Anna Klobucka holds an M.A. in Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (1993). She has taught at the Ohio State University and the University of Georgia, and she is currently Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures. She is the co-editor of After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature 1974-1994 (Bucknell UP, 1997) and Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (Toronto, 2007), and the author of The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (Bucknell, 2000; Portuguese edition 2006), in addition to many articles in scholarly journals. She served as President of the American Portuguese Studies Association (2005-06).

Clémence Jouët-Pastré obtained her B.A. in Portuguese at UNICAMP, Brazil. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from UNICAMP and an M.A. in Education from UMASS- Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in Translation Studies from Universidade de São Paulo —Brazil, and has taught at Stanford University and Princeton University. Currently, she directs the Portuguese Language Program at Harvard and the Harvard Summer Program in Rio. Her research interests focus on Portuguese linguistics, translation studies, intercultural communication, and multicultural education. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and is the co-editor of Giving Voice to a Nascent Community: Exploring Brazilian Immigration to the U.S. through Research and Practice (Cambridge: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2004).

Patricía Isabel Santos Sobral was educated in Brazil and the United States. She holds a M.A. in Comparative Literature, from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1991) and a Ph.D. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University (1997), where she currently teaches. Her teaching interests include the intersection of the arts and its applications to second language acquisition, Brazilian literature of the 20th century, contemporary Brazilian film and its pedagogical applications, and comparative literature. Dr. Sobral is the undergraduate concentration advisor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, member of the Advisory Board of the Writing Fellows Program, and an active member of the Center for Language Studies. She also leads workshops in Brazil several times a year using the ArtsLit approach for second language acquisition.

Maria Luci De Biaji Moreira received her B.A. in Portuguese and English Languages and Literatures at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. She holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, and Ph.D. coursework in Linguistics and Philology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 1990, she went to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and certificate in SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Education), under the direction of Bill VanPatten. She taught at the University of Georgia and University of California, Berkeley. Since 2000, she directs the Portuguese program at the College of Charleston. As a generalist, she teaches Portuguese language, Brazilian culture and civilization, Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition Theories and Teaching in the MA in Foreign Languages program. As director of summer programs in Brazil, she has traveled extensively to different regions of Brazil, teaching her students Brazilian culture and civilization. She has published several articles on language acquisition and pedagogy and li