The “Currículo Mínimo – Língua Estrangeira” (2012) aims at promoting interdisciplinarity, majorly with the discipline of Portuguese language. The document suggests that this promotion be achieved by means of:

In “Dimensões Comunicativas no Ensino de Línguas", Almeida Filho (2007) discusses the types of competence a language teacher should achieve. For the author, “implicit competence" is the most basic one and should be surpassed. This competence can be defined as a/an:

The current state of the reflections about language teaching is broadly associated to the idea of “postmethod". This term was proposed by Kuramadivelu in 1994 and it includes ten macrostrategies. Three of these macrostrategies are:

The conceptual difference between “method” and “approach” is an interesting point to start discussing English language teaching. According to Richards and Rogers (2001), in “Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching”, “method” and “approach” can be translated into the two following phrases, respectively:

In the article “Ensino de Línguas: passado, presente e futuro”, Vilson Leffa (2012) predicts a certain “invisibility” to teachers in the future. According to the author, this “invisibility” means: