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Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
2014
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- Focus on Brazil: Country images held by Malaysian learners of Brazilian Portuguese Larisa Nikitina Zuraidah Binti Mohd Don Loh Sau Cheong Lengua y Literatura country image mixed methods applied linguistics Brazilian Portuguese foreign language learners This study explores images about Brazil held by learners of Brazilian Portuguese in a big public university in Malaysia. It employs a mixed methods approach for this purpose. In the qualitativecomponent of the study, the students’ images about Brazil were explored by analyzing their responses to an open-ended question and grouping the resultant images into categories. In the quantitative strand, favourability of the images about Brazil was accessed using the ratings thateach respondent had assigned to his or her images about Brazil. The findings revealed that references to football and sporting events made up the largest share in the kaleidoscope of images about Brazil. For the most part, the students’ images about the target language country, culture and people were highly positive. At the same time, the fi ndings indicated that the students’ mental pictures about Brazil were limited to popularly held country stereotypes. The article concludes with a discussion on pedagogical implications of the fi ndings. 2014 artículo científico 2177-6202 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=571561779010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5715 Calidoscópio application/pdf Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos Calidoscópio (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.12