Entries by Rodolfo Mattiello

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]