Maya Honda just returned from the Abralin (Brazilian Association of Linguistics) Institute where she co-taught a week-long course on “Teaching about Language(s) as Science in Basic Education” with former MIT faculty member Richard Larson (Stonybrook University). There were 40 course participants, including high school teachers, teachers-in-training, linguistics graduate students, and linguistics faculty. Maya also spoke at the opening session of Abralin’s International Congress on “Fostering a Community of Inquiry through Linguistics”. The opening session of the Congress was focused on the interface of Linguistics and Primary and Secondary Education. The Institute and Congress were held at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba.
At the Congress, Maya met up with MIT graduate Luciana Storto (University of São Paulo) and former MIT visitor Filomena Sandalo (State University of Campinas), both of who worked with Ken Hale.
