This seminar offers an advanced approach to general principles and practices in the field of applied linguistics, by covering its connections to other related disciplinary areas and addressing current debates in language acquisition, language pedagogy, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and creolistics. A particular emphasis will be given to language transfer phenomena and interlinguistic issues in Portuguese language-based contexts.

CILO-1: Identify the main issues of language acquisition, language pedagogy, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and creolistics from a cross-linguistic, applied perspective. CILO-2: Acquire advanced knowledge about language transfer phenomena and interlinguistic issues in Portuguese language-based contexts. CILO-3: Write a scientific document within the central field of study of this course.