CINEMATOGRAPHIC PRACTICE: THE CINEMA AS AN ETHICAL-AESTHETIC AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY POTENTIAL IN THE PORTUGUESE AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

This paper aims at presenting the course Cinematographic Practice offered by the Portuguese for Foreigners Program (PPE) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), discussing some of the activities carried out within this teaching proposal. PPE is an extension program created in 1993 with the objective of educating Portuguese as an additional language (PLA) teachers and offering PLA classes to foreigners enrolled or not as UFRGS students. The courses are elaborated from different themes and discourse genres (BAKHTIN, 2003), some of which include the development of learning projects and others are configured exclusively as projects (HERNANDEZ, 2008). These learning methodologies, we believe, provide mechanisms for students to engage in and through language in different spheres of human activity. We consider cinema not as a tool for teaching Portuguese, but as an art that has the potential to provide an ethical-aesthetic experience of awareness to the world and to the various ways we relate to languages.