Tá Legal: Working with Portuguese Speakers

Printed Resource:

Shepard, D. (2001) . "Portuguese Speakers." In Swan, M. and B. Smith. (Eds.) Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Online Resources:

26 common English pronunciation problems (includes minimal pair practice) http://www.tedpower.co.uk/l1portuguese.html
COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID IN ENGLISH http://www.sk.com.br/sk-gram.html
The differences between English and Portuguese http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/portuguese.htm
English and Portuguese Vowel Phonemes Compared http://www.sk.com.br/sk-voga.html
English Lessons for Brazilian Portuguese Speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p6Rbvwzg
False Cognates Between Portuguese and English http://www.skypeenglishclasses.com/skype-english-blog/false-cognates-portuguese-english/
False Cognates Quiz for Portuguese Speakers http://www.skypeenglishclasses.com/quizzes/false-cognates-quiz-portuguese-speakers/
Perception and production of English initial // clusters by Brazilian learners http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbla/v2n1/06.pdf
ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE VOWEL PHONEMES COMPARED http://www.sk.com.br/sk-voga.html
Pronunciation Made Easy for Portuguese-speaking learners of English http://teresadeca-radicalenglish.weebly.com/e-dictionary.html
Pronunciation Problems for Brazilian Students of English http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/pronunciation.html

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