‘Localizing’ Second Language Writing Pedagogy in a Skills-Integrated Language Program in Brazil

Abstract

This chapter describes the efforts of Casa Thomas Jefferson, a not-for-profit Brazil-US binational center that offers English lessons to students from children to adults, to supplement their writing textbooks with additional materials that included a process element for writing. This shift involved creating new materials and educating teachers in the process approach to writing. This chapter discusses challenges that the institution faced when implementing this curriculum innovation as well as steps taken to overcome those obstacles.