Monções (Dec 2019)
The teaching of Portuguese as a language of reception and its role as a facilitator of the integration process of Venezuelan immigrants in Roraima
Abstract
This article had as its main objective to analyze how teaching Portuguese as a welcoming language of Acolher Project in the Federal University of Roraima promotes integration of the Venezuelan migrant in the society of Roraima. The hypothesis is that teaching Portuguese on the modality of welcoming language offers linguistic and social tools so the migrant can be integrated with greater skills in the society of destination. For this purpose, there were analyzed theories and the concept of integration of migrants and refugees, specially the role of the classes of the language and cultural knowledge as a facilitator in this process. Moreover, once it is about an extraordinary migratory flow, understanding the Venezuelan immigration to Roraima was of major importance, contextualizing Venezuela’s economic, social and political crisis and its link with the migratory outflow. Beyond that, it described the teaching of Portuguese as a welcoming language by Acolher Project in the years of 2016 to 2019 and how it facilitated the processes of integration of Venezuelan students graduated in this course.
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