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- Title
Focus on Brazil: Country images held by Malaysian learners of Brazilian Portuguese.
- Authors
Nikitina, Larisa; Mohd Don, Zuraidah Binti; Loh Sau Cheong
- Abstract
This study explores images about Brazil held by learners of Brazilian Portuguese in a big public university in Malaysia. It employs a mixed methods approach for this purpose. In the qualitative component of the study, the students' images about Brazil were explored by analyzing their responses to an open-ended question and grouping the resultant images into categories. In the quantitative strand, favourability of the images about Brazil was accessed using the ratings that each respondent had assigned to his or her images about Brazil. The fi ndings revealed that references to football and sporting events made up the largest share in the kaleidoscope of images about Brazil. For the most part, the students' images about the target language country, culture and people were highly positive. At the same time, the fi ndings indicated that the students' mental pictures about Brazil were limited to popularly held country stereotypes. The article concludes with a discussion on pedagogical implications of the fi ndings.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; FOREIGN language education; APPLIED linguistics; STRUCTURAL linguistics; QUALITATIVE research; PUBLIC universities &; colleges
- Publication
Calidoscópio, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
1679-8740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/cld.2014.121.08