Margo Milleret
Biographic Data
| ID | 904134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margo Milleret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margo |
| FAMILY NAME | Milleret |
| SIGNATURE | MILLERET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modern Portuguese and the Narration of Brazil
Modern Portuguese and the Narration of Brazil Margo Milleret Modern Portuguese: A Project of the Modern Language Association was a package of film strips, prerecorded tapes, an instructor’s manual and a textbook first published by Knopf in 1971. It followed the model established by Modern Spanish that was also a project of the MLA published in 1960. The preface of Modern Portuguese traces its development in three phases: 1964–66 for planning and …
Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (review)
Reviewed by: The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas Margo Milleret The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. By Diana Taylor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xx + 326. $79.97 cloth, $22.95 paper. Diana Taylor's new book promises to spend more time doing performance studies than debating how to define it. Therefore, following an introduction to key terms and their d…
Exorcising History: Argentine Theater Under Dictatorship (review)
Lessons from Students about the Brazilian Dictatorship
Consuelo de Castro's play A Prova de Fogo (1968) communicates the student experience during the dictatorship to students of Brazilian theater today allowing for a sense of participation in the struggles for gender equality and political action. In spite of the passage of time, students can identify with the characters when they apply specific reading approaches outlined by Juan Villegas. There is a dialog then between the play's focus on Brazilia…
The Power of Performance Recent Research on Latin American Theatre History
Theatre is the most immediate and palpable of the creative arts, turning today's current events into tomorrow's performances. Theatre often serves as a laboratory in which dramatists and actors experiment with new approaches to social, political, domestic, and philosophical problems. At times theatre practitioners are so focused on the immediate, the performance that will be given today, that documentation of what happens onstage as well as conse…
Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino: Essays on the Portuguese Speaking World
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography
Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino
Cooperative Learning in the Portuguese‐for‐Spanish‐Speakers Classroom
Cooperative learning has a fifteen year history of research and application in primary and middle schools throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. This paper briefly describes that history in terms of research conducted in primary education and in foreign‐ and second‐language education. It also outlines the components that make up cooperative learning. The discussion then describes a specific application of some cooperative learn…
Luis Valdez: Early Works: Actos, Bernabe, Pensamiento Serpentino
The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program
Margo Milleret, Charles W. Stansfield, Dorry Mann Kenyon, The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program, Hispania, Vol. 74, No. 3, Special Issue Devoted to Luso-Brazilian Language, Literature, and Culture (Sep., 1991), pp. 778-787
Portuguese Program Development: Past, Present, and Future
Program development for attracting and retaining students is not the exclusive concern of those teaching Portuguese. Certainly, instructors of languages with large enrollments also must address this concern. But minor programs, like Portuguese, have been especially resourceful in making their programs known on college and university campuses. Most of the efforts over the past thirty years have focused on building visibility for Portuguese and on …
Nota Bene: Caveat Scriptor (Part 2)
As promised in our preliminary review (Hispania, December 1985), we propose to make a more detailed commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of this integrated software package. We now have had several months experience with Nota Bene, and base our observations in this review on two kinds of activities: 1) the note-taking, documentation, and word processing involved in the production of foreign language research materials; 2) the establishment …
Nota Bene: Caveat Scriptor
In a recent newsletter (Summer, 1985) and a subsequent special announcement to its members, the Modern Language Association has endorsed for the first time, and is currently marketing, an integrated word processing and data base management package for use on microcomputers (Nota Bene, Dragonfly Software Company, $495 list price, special price of $396 to MLA members). Writing for PC Magazine (July 23, 1985, p. 64), Stephen Manes takes note of that…
Cooperative Learning in the Portuguese‐for‐Spanish‐Speakers Classroom
Cooperative learning has a fifteen year history of research and application in primary and middle schools throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. This paper briefly describes that history in terms of research conducted in primary education and in foreign‐ and second‐language education. It also outlines the components that make up cooperative learning. The discussion then describes a specific application of some cooperative learn…
The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program
Margo Milleret, Charles W. Stansfield, Dorry Mann Kenyon, The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program, Hispania, Vol. 74, No. 3, Special Issue Devoted to Luso-Brazilian Language, Literature, and Culture (Sep., 1991), pp. 778-787
Nota Bene: Caveat Scriptor
In a recent newsletter (Summer, 1985) and a subsequent special announcement to its members, the Modern Language Association has endorsed for the first time, and is currently marketing, an integrated word processing and data base management package for use on microcomputers (Nota Bene, Dragonfly Software Company, $495 list price, special price of $396 to MLA members). Writing for PC Magazine (July 23, 1985, p. 64), Stephen Manes takes note of that…
Nota Bene: Caveat Scriptor (Part 2)
As promised in our preliminary review (Hispania, December 1985), we propose to make a more detailed commentary on the strengths and weaknesses of this integrated software package. We now have had several months experience with Nota Bene, and base our observations in this review on two kinds of activities: 1) the note-taking, documentation, and word processing involved in the production of foreign language research materials; 2) the establishment …
Portuguese Program Development: Past, Present, and Future
Program development for attracting and retaining students is not the exclusive concern of those teaching Portuguese. Certainly, instructors of languages with large enrollments also must address this concern. But minor programs, like Portuguese, have been especially resourceful in making their programs known on college and university campuses. Most of the efforts over the past thirty years have focused on building visibility for Portuguese and on …
Luis Valdez: Early Works: Actos, Bernabe, Pensamiento Serpentino
The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program
Margo Milleret, Charles W. Stansfield, Dorry Mann Kenyon, The Validity of the Portuguese Speaking Test for Use in a Summer Study Abroad Program, Hispania, Vol. 74, No. 3, Special Issue Devoted to Luso-Brazilian Language, Literature, and Culture (Sep., 1991), pp. 778-787
Cooperative Learning in the Portuguese‐for‐Spanish‐Speakers Classroom
Cooperative learning has a fifteen year history of research and application in primary and middle schools throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel. This paper briefly describes that history in terms of research conducted in primary education and in foreign‐ and second‐language education. It also outlines the components that make up cooperative learning. The discussion then describes a specific application of some cooperative learn…
Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino
Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino: Essays on the Portuguese Speaking World
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography
The Power of Performance Recent Research on Latin American Theatre History
Theatre is the most immediate and palpable of the creative arts, turning today's current events into tomorrow's performances. Theatre often serves as a laboratory in which dramatists and actors experiment with new approaches to social, political, domestic, and philosophical problems. At times theatre practitioners are so focused on the immediate, the performance that will be given today, that documentation of what happens onstage as well as conse…
Exorcising History: Argentine Theater Under Dictatorship (review)
Lessons from Students about the Brazilian Dictatorship
Consuelo de Castro's play A Prova de Fogo (1968) communicates the student experience during the dictatorship to students of Brazilian theater today allowing for a sense of participation in the struggles for gender equality and political action. In spite of the passage of time, students can identify with the characters when they apply specific reading approaches outlined by Juan Villegas. There is a dialog then between the play's focus on Brazilia…
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (review)
Reviewed by: The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas Margo Milleret The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. By Diana Taylor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xx + 326. $79.97 cloth, $22.95 paper. Diana Taylor's new book promises to spend more time doing performance studies than debating how to define it. Therefore, following an introduction to key terms and their d…
Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women
Modern Portuguese and the Narration of Brazil
Modern Portuguese and the Narration of Brazil Margo Milleret Modern Portuguese: A Project of the Modern Language Association was a package of film strips, prerecorded tapes, an instructor’s manual and a textbook first published by Knopf in 1971. It followed the model established by Modern Spanish that was also a project of the MLA published in 1960. The preface of Modern Portuguese traces its development in three phases: 1964–66 for planning and …
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