Denise Abreu e Lima
President - IsF Program
January
• PEC – G (1965) – 97 institutions –
55 countries
• MARCA – Mercosul (Student
Mobility Program) – 2006 - 1,000
st (2014 – 430 st) – Argentina,
Brasil, Uruguai, Bolivia and Chile.
• International Conferences and
Events (support and participation)
GUIDING OF OUR COORDINATORS AT THE PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION VIA MOODLE
140 representatives from Brazilian public institutions of
higher education from all states in Brazil
Official Website:
isf.mec.gov.br
# of Public Universities (Federal):
58 in all Brazilian states
# of tests TOEFL ITP: 500 thousand
# of tests administered: 40
thousand
# of tests to be administered
(2014): 300 thousand
# of logins to MY ENGLISH ONLINE: 2
million
Self instructional – 5 levels
1 English Teacher – 3 groups of 15 sts each
• 12 hours + 3 hours + 5 hours = 20
h/week
Classes of 1 hour/ 4 hours per week
# of Public Universities (Federal):
43 in all Brazilian states
# of pedagogical coordinators: 33
# of English teachers: 355
# of students: 15.975
# of courses: 966
• Event in December 2013 – President
François Hollande in Brasilia
• The Embassy of France and MEC (MOU):
 Language Tests: for CsF students and others
 Online Courses: for CsF students and others
• Agence Universitaire de la Francofonie
 Brazilian universities using the language and
cultural tools – online information
• 27 Brazilian professors as FsF
representatives
• First meeting March 18-19,
2014
• Working as a team
• Team work to diagnostic test (specific for
Brazilian students)
• On-line courses (2 modules – A1 and A2)
• B1 module – designed specifically for
Brazilian students
• Exchange of Brazilian pre-service teachers
of Spanish to Spain and Spanish teachers to
the Brazilian Universities without Spanish
Language Programs
• Agreement to be signed in May 2014.
• Team work – specialists Portuguese as a
foreign language
• On-line course (for beginners – A1 and A2)
• On-line prep test for CELPE-BRAS
• Agreement for exchanges: pre-service
Brazilian teachers of English, Spanish,
French learning the foreign language
culture and skills – teaching Portuguese as
a foreign language.
Let’s contribute to the internationalization!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889-1951)