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to my home on the Internet. I developed this website with three objectives in mind: 1) to provide information on my professional and personal backgrounds; 2) to create a forum for other students of language and literature with research interests similar to mine; and 3) to supplement my teaching in Spanish and English, and provide ancillary material to support the academic and administrative work that I am currently doing at Essex County College in Newark, New Jersey. I thank you for dropping by, and hope your visit will be both informative and useful. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me via e-mail at sedycias@yahoo.com or via regular mail at my mailing address.
Unless otherwise indicated, the contents of this website are current as of .

Curriculum vitae in English
Statement of teaching philosophy
Statement of administrative philosophy
Pictures of my family and me
Copyright information © 1999-
How to contact me
Undergraduate Courses
Grammar of the Spanish Language
Comparative Grammar of Spanish and Portuguese
Strategies for Reading and Understanding Spanish Texts
Strategies for Reading and Understanding English Texts
History of the Spanish Language UnB (1999)
Spanish-American Civilization
History of the English Language
English Written Expression 4
English Language 4B UFPE
English Language 5 UFPE
English Language 7 UFPE
English Language 8A UFPE
English for Librarians UFPE
History of the Spanish Language UFPE (2003)
Graduate Courses
The Internet in the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Interactive Internet Strategies in the Teaching of Foreign Languages
The Internet in the Teaching of Foreign Languages UFPE
Interactive Exercises Using Java and CGI Scripts
Interactive exercises in Spanish
Article on naturalism in the New World
Article on Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction
Article on Aluísio Azevedo: Violence in O cortiço
Article on Federico Gamboa: The mexicanness of Santa
Article on the Internet in the teaching of foreign languages
Working papers on Spanish grammar (in Spanish)
Article on starting a Portuguese language program
Article on why Brazilians should learn Spanish
Article on Lope de Vega: A Girardian reading
Article on naturalism in Brazil and Portugal
Article on the Sephardim of Brazil
Article on Ernest Hemingway
Projects Recently Finished or Currently Under Way
The Internet in the Teaching/Learning of Foreign Languages
Publications stemming from this research project:
1. “The Evolution of the Paradigm for Production and Dissemination of Information” (2000)
2. Tópicos em lingüística aplicada – Issues in Applied Linguistics (2000)
The Teaching/Learning of Spanish and Portuguese
Publications stemming from this research project:
1. “Establishing a Portuguese Language Program at a Liberal-Arts College” (2002)
2. “Why Should Brazilians Learn Spanish?” (2005)
3. The Teaching of Spanish in Brazil: Past, Present, Future (2005)
Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures
Publications stemming from this research project:
1. “The Fallen Woman as Religious Allegory in New World Naturalistic Fiction” (2007)
2. Spanish America and Brazil in their Literary Imaginaries (2007)
Graduate Examinations in Foreign Languages
Consultancies established as a result of this project:
1. Prolingua-UFPE: Center for Graduate Examinations in Foreign Languages (2003-2006)
Translation and Interpretation in Foreign Languages
Consultancies established as a result of this project:
1. Translog-UFPE: Center for Translation and Interpretation in Foreign Languages (2003-2006)
Foreign Language Resources on the Internet
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
Essential terms in theoretical and applied linguistics
Internet resources for teachers and students of Spanish
Internet resources for teachers and students of English
Internet resources for teachers and students of Portuguese
Internet resources for webmasters and HTML programmers
Internet resources for teachers and students of applied linguistics
Miscellaneous Information
Academic information for my graduate advisees UFPE
Teaching Spanish to speakers of Portuguese
Teaching foreign languages for specific purposes
Information technology in the teaching of foreign languages
The impact of the Internet on contemporary living
Other websites that I have designed
Division of Humanities, Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey
Indigenous Language Lab, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Program in Creole Studies, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Master’s Program in Applied Linguistics, University of Brasilia, Brazil
2000 Convention of the Brazilian Association of Teachers of Italian, Brasilia, Brazil
2000 Convention of University Professors of Japanese, Brasilia, Brazil




This site was designed and is maintained by Dr. João Sedycias,
Chair of the Division of Humanities, Essex County College,
Newark, New Jersey, United States of America.
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