Brazil Window Study

The Window Project for the children of Brazilians born and / or raised outside of Brazil whose parents seek to maintain the language and Brazilian culture. We note that the new multicultural generations face many barriers to learn and internalize your language coming from a unique context. In the large group formed by Brazilian immigrants in the US, we note that the group of families who are here temporarily because of work or academic specializations is smaller than the group of families that emigrated here permanently. In this first group, we find more engaged parents in keeping the language and living culture in their children, invest more in cultural programs and courses geared to learning the Portuguese language believe in the need to prepare the new generations to live and complete their studies in Brazil . In the second and largest group, the permanent immigrants; encontramse difficulties in adapting and assimilating the new culture, which creates a disincentive to maintain the Portuguese language spoken at home. Thus, children and young people educated in the United States, encontramse amalgamated in linguistic diversity that does not represent their actual ethnicity, eventually not find identification with the culture brought by the parents and often afastandose it, recusandose to speak or learn Portuguese. …show more content…
With the passage of time, of course the school pays the role of shaping the ethnic characteristics that are primarily linked, and with it, the links with Brazil are losing tone and spontaneity, leaving parents, along with the initiative of educators Brazilians, who are committed to the teaching of Portuguese as Heritage Language (PLH), create programs that address this gap and to provide the opportunity to access real Brazilian culture and their native