Chá Pedagógico – Arrival, the movie: linguistics review

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor Andre Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

Do you think it could be possible to travel through time just by having knowledge of how a different language works? Well, that is definitely not very plausible, but the movie Arrival (Paramount, 2016) says so. However, learning other languages do make us update our epistemic notions, time included.

This is our Linguistics review of the movie Arrival. I hope you’ll have as much fun as we did.

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Language, thought, and time perception: How far-fetched is the movie Arrival?

Written by André Hedlund and Rodolfo Mattiello

The idea that multilingualism develops cognitive potential and influences perception is well explored in the specialized literature. Linguists and cognitive scientists have long proposed the notion that language determines thoughts or at least shapes them depending on how adept they are to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Boroditsky, 2001). Several authors have also been able to find a high correlation between bilingual brains and executive functions (updating, switching, and inhibiting) as well as cognitive reserve, which buys the brain a few years before it develops dementia, thus, extending its protective effects (Perani & Abutalebi, 2015; Bialystok et al. 2004). It seems that learning languages have significant effects on cognition, however, what would happen if humans could access, be exposed to, and even learn an alien language? This premise is explored in one of Denis Villeneuve’s latest productions: the film Arrival (2016, Paramount). Leia mais

Chá Pedagógico – For those who paved the way

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor Andre Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

We’re back in black! The very first episode of 2021 is to honor some of the GOATs of Linguistics and Neuroscience. We paid homage to Chomsky, Freud, Tomasello, Millner among other renowned people who have actually inspired us and whose studies are the essence of what we do today.

Many thanks to those who paved our way.

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Chá Pedagógico – The year in review

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

We made it to the end of 2020! Was that a year! We had over 10 episodes with lots of topics related to language teaching and in this last one of 2020 we went through all the episodes of the year. We tried to recap them.

Merry Christmas and a great 2021!

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Chá Pedagógico – Talking CLIL

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

CLIL is an approach used by many educational systems where multilingualism is the goal. In this episode we go through the linguistic and learning aspects of it where a second language is used as a means of instruction, a tool that students use to achieve goals in different learning areas.

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Chá Pedagógico – The Social Media

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

What does social media and language acquisition have in common? A lot. We used some of the information in Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma” and compared with the language learning process that we normally experience. Unmissable episode.

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Our Thoughts Have No Official Language

“I have to stop thinking in my native language”. This is one of the most commonly heard sentences by every language teacher (mainly in Brazil) and also something that needs to be adjusted so that the same language teachers don’t fall into this trap. Thought has no official language, therefore it is not very accurate to agree with the starting sentence. What is confusing, though, is the presence of a “mental language” that every person has that is used to organize, plan and perform certain activities. Leia mais

Chá Pedagógico – Follow-up of Paul Howard Jones’ Webinar

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

In this episode we followed up on Professor Paul Howard Jones’ webinar entitled The Evolution of the Learning Brain. We selected some of the important topics discussed on the webinar and we explored them a little more.

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Chá Pedagógico – The Evolution of Language

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

In this episode we went through biological evolutionary processes that have influenced the development of speech. This was also a warm-up episode for Professor Paul Howard-Jones webinar for BRAZ-TESOL’s Mind, Brain and Education SIG.

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Chá Pedagógico – The Science of Bilingualism

Chá Pedagógico is a monthly show hosted by Professor André Hedlund and Professor Rodolfo Mattiello where Linguistics and Neuroscience aspects of Language Learning are discussed. The episodes are live directly from Instagram and also streamed on Youtube.

In this episode we’ll explore bilingualism under the lens of Linguistics and Neuroscience when we discuss some scientific studies on how a second language acquisition is performed in the brain, its performance in a communicative setting, (re)construction of meanings among other issues.

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