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Costa Waetzold, Juliane; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In the context of German linguistic policies, Heritage Language (HL) education ranges from formal and informal to non-formal offers. Families with migratory backgrounds seeking acquisition and maintenance of the HL frequently resort to educational or maintenance opportunities that are not institutionalized. In the region of Bavaria (Germany), the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Portuguese, German, Parent Child Relationship
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia; Schmidt, Alexandra Fidalgo – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2019
After a theoretical overview of the concept of heritage language (HL) from a plurilingual perspective, we will describe the project "Images on the (teaching of) Portuguese Language abroad". For this project, several drawings were collected, produced by lusodescendant children living in Germany and attending supplementary Portuguese…
Descriptors: Portuguese, German, Heritage Education, Freehand Drawing
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015
Focusing on the topic of the development of the plurilingual and intercultural competence through the integration of electronic communicative practices both in foreign language classrooms and non-formal contexts, this work aims at defining and characterizing, in view of a co-actional perspective, a "pedagogical blog", by considering it…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education