Read the article. Then read the question and choose the correct answers.

WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

We all have too much work to do and too little time to do it. Managing your time is a challenge, but the secret is to work smarter not harder.

First, know when to work. When are you most awake? When are you sleepy? Some people work better at night, others first thing in the morning. You should do creative work or complicated work when you are at your best. When you’re not at your best, you should do jobs which don’t need a lot of thinking, like reading emails or calling a colleague.

Second, eat and sleep well to work well. Have you ever had a large lunch and felt so sleepy that you couldn’t think? It’s better to eat small amounts of food several times a day than eat two or three large meals. A large meal at night can have a bad effect on your sleep quality and your ability to think. It’s important to not only get enough sleep but also get good quality sleep.

Exercise is important too. In fact, exercising can make you feel more awake than having a cup of coffee. In addition, exercise makes you feel happier, and happy people work better!

Finally, do the right work at the right time. Certain experts say you should do your most difficult piece of work first. After you’ve finished that, you’ll feel ready to do almost any other job on your to-do list. But other experts say the opposite; they suggest starting with something simple. Doing that will make you feel successful and ready to do your next job.

Read the article. Then read the question and choose the correct answers.

WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

We all have too much work to do and too little time to do it. Managing your time is a challenge, but the secret is to work smarter not harder.

First, know when to work. When are you most awake? When are you sleepy? Some people work better at night, others first thing in the morning. You should do creative work or complicated work when you are at your best. When you’re not at your best, you should do jobs which don’t need a lot of thinking, like reading emails or calling a colleague.

Second, eat and sleep well to work well. Have you ever had a large lunch and felt so sleepy that you couldn’t think? It’s better to eat small amounts of food several times a day than eat two or three large meals. A large meal at night can have a bad effect on your sleep quality and your ability to think. It’s important to not only get enough sleep but also get good quality sleep.

Exercise is important too. In fact, exercising can make you feel more awake than having a cup of coffee. In addition, exercise makes you feel happier, and happy people work better!

Finally, do the right work at the right time. Certain experts say you should do your most difficult piece of work first. After you’ve finished that, you’ll feel ready to do almost any other job on your to-do list. But other experts say the opposite; they suggest starting with something simple. Doing that will make you feel successful and ready to do your next job.

Read the article. Then read the question and choose the correct answers.

WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

We all have too much work to do and too little time to do it. Managing your time is a challenge, but the secret is to work smarter not harder.

First, know when to work. When are you most awake? When are you sleepy? Some people work better at night, others first thing in the morning. You should do creative work or complicated work when you are at your best. When you’re not at your best, you should do jobs which don’t need a lot of thinking, like reading emails or calling a colleague.

Second, eat and sleep well to work well. Have you ever had a large lunch and felt so sleepy that you couldn’t think? It’s better to eat small amounts of food several times a day than eat two or three large meals. A large meal at night can have a bad effect on your sleep quality and your ability to think. It’s important to not only get enough sleep but also get good quality sleep.

Exercise is important too. In fact, exercising can make you feel more awake than having a cup of coffee. In addition, exercise makes you feel happier, and happy people work better!

Finally, do the right work at the right time. Certain experts say you should do your most difficult piece of work first. After you’ve finished that, you’ll feel ready to do almost any other job on your to-do list. But other experts say the opposite; they suggest starting with something simple. Doing that will make you feel successful and ready to do your next job.

Read the article. Then read the question and choose the correct answers.

WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

We all have too much work to do and too little time to do it. Managing your time is a challenge, but the secret is to work smarter not harder.

First, know when to work. When are you most awake? When are you sleepy? Some people work better at night, others first thing in the morning. You should do creative work or complicated work when you are at your best. When you’re not at your best, you should do jobs which don’t need a lot of thinking, like reading emails or calling a colleague.

Second, eat and sleep well to work well. Have you ever had a large lunch and felt so sleepy that you couldn’t think? It’s better to eat small amounts of food several times a day than eat two or three large meals. A large meal at night can have a bad effect on your sleep quality and your ability to think. It’s important to not only get enough sleep but also get good quality sleep.

Exercise is important too. In fact, exercising can make you feel more awake than having a cup of coffee. In addition, exercise makes you feel happier, and happy people work better!

Finally, do the right work at the right time. Certain experts say you should do your most difficult piece of work first. After you’ve finished that, you’ll feel ready to do almost any other job on your to-do list. But other experts say the opposite; they suggest starting with something simple. Doing that will make you feel successful and ready to do your next job.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Answer the question according to the text “My Manhattan”.

My Manhattan

Today, the island of Manhattan is home to more than 1.5 million people. We live in a place where 23% of the population drive a car noisily (and sometimes dangerously) on the streets. The city is very noisy. In a lot of the open spaces, the noise is loud enough to damage your ears. If people don’t try to change this situation, we will be in a lot of trouble!

There are a lot of traffic jams because the only way in and out of Manhattan is either over a bridge or through a tunnel. If people start using public transportation more, the air pollution will get better.

The biggest green space in Manhattan is Central Park. It’s 1.317 square miles. This gives people some land where they can exercise and get away from the big concrete buildings. Incredibly, more than 230 different kinds of birds live in Central Park. If you go there early on a summer morning, you’ll hear them singing beautifully in the trees. There are only a few other green spaces in Manhattan. However, there is a plan to plant a million new trees in Manhattan in the next ten years.

A few years back, New York City had some of the dirtiest air in the United States. That’s a sad fact. Things are getting a little better now, but if we want clean air in the future, we will need to switch to electric cars.

Manhattan is my home, and I want to help fight these problems. If we all fight together, it will be a beautiful place in the future.

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”

Who wrote Imagine?

Imagine, John Lennon’s most famous song, was voted “Britain’s favorite song of all time.” It is an idealistic song about peace and the hope for a better world. “Imagine all the people living life in peace.” The song was a big hit in 1971, and again in 1980 after Lennon was murdered in New York. It became a hit for a third time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

But who really wrote the song? Until recently the answer to this question was always John Lennon. But on a TV program this week, Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, spoke for the first time about how she, in fact, helped write the song.

Ono said that the idea and inspiration for Imagine came from some of her poems that John Lennon was reading at that time. The poems began with the word imagine: “Imagine a raindrop, Imagine a goldfish.” Ono said, “when I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen.”

In an interview just before he died, Lennon admitted that Yoko deserved credit for Imagine. He said, “a lot of it - the lyrics and the concept - came from her, from her book of poems, imagine this, imagine that. “Lennon said that he was “too macho” to share the credit with her at the time.

Ono said that part of the song was written when they were flying across the Atlantic, and the rest was written on the piano in their bedroom at their home in England. Ono said, “The song speaks about John’s dream for the world. It was something he really wanted to say.” Imagine became a popular song for peace activists everywhere.

In March 2002 the airport in his home town of Liverpool was renamed John Lennon Airport. A sign above the main entrance has a line from Imagine: “Above us only sky.”

Text II

De-encapsulated Bilingual Education in Brazil: Multicultural Breakfasts and Translanguaging Kids

In Brazil, when we talk about bilingual education, we are talking about two very different realities. Children and youth from minoritarian and underprivileged groups such as immigrant, indigenous or deaf communities make up one group, as Antonieta Megale (2019) points out. The other is children of wealthy people who learn another language to further enhance their privileged participation in society. Brazilians seem to cultivate a notion of monolingualism and, although there are more than 200 languages spoken in the country (Maher, 2013), they seem to be made invisible, which reinforces a denial of cultural diversity in the country (Monte Mór, 2002). We believe that education should provide expansive new modes of effective participation in society to offer students the chance to increasingly develop forms of insertion in the world and means to transform their mobility. The expansion of mobility should imply the creation of language practices at school which can lead to the reflection of life through a large range of possibilities of understanding concepts, content and knowledge through diverse sources as well as through various semiotic resources and multiple languages. As part of the Global South, Brazilians must figure out ways of teaching in a multilingual perspective to lessen human suffering, as suggested by Ofelia García (2019). Thus, bilingual education in Brazil should involve breaking with modules imposed by educational parameters or cultural biases, which impose a mono-ideology that makes it difficult to move in the direction of a multi/ intercultural perspective. Turning to the challenges presented by globalization, especially in a country with extreme social differences such as Brazil, we must become critically aware of the ways in which schools position themselves regarding local and global issues. When teaching and learning practices enable connections between such issues and the learners’ different realities and needs, change and transformation are more likely to occur.

Aiming at showing how some schools in Brazil are striving to implement multicultural and multilingual practices, distancing themselves from the prescribed curriculum and the traditional separation between languages, we will describe an example taken from Multicultural Breakfasts, a research project carried out at Esfera Escola Internacional, a bilingual school in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology was based on critical collaborative research (Magalhães, 2011), in which researchers are included as active participants in the search for shared solutions. Discourse analysis was used to reveal how language was materialized in the participant’s interactions. Although the majority of the students at Esfera are Brazilian, about 15% are from other countries, thus creating a diverse linguistic landscape. Four teachers, coordinators and students made up the research group for the year. The school follows an inquiry-based curriculum, which is organized through transdisciplinary projects in the primary years. To begin their inquiries and provoke questions for exploration, the students read migration stories of children from around the world. They later explored their own family stories of travel and change, and connected them to how the Brazilian people were formed. Making room for further questioning and critical thinking, the students also looked at how migration movements have been affecting people and places in Brazil and the world today. As a performance task, the students invited their parents to breakfast at school, with typical dishes from their countries of origin, and presented their new understandings using different resources and the languages of their preference.

The Multicultural Breakfasts’ example helps us understand how dynamic language practices and de-encapsulation can support teaching and learning, while also enabling agency and social transformation. Ofelia García (2009, p. 9) asserts that “Bilingual education in the twenty-first century must be reimagined and expanded, as it takes its rightful place as a meaningful way to educate all children and language learners in the world today.” She proposes that the dynamic language practices that take place in the social environment should have a place in bilingual schools, to enhance learning and transform conditions of social injustice. The complex networks of language practices in which children interact today are no longer supported by linear language instruction. Knowing how to interact dynamically and collaboratively in this new reality is a challenge faced by the new generations and, consequently, a goal for bilingual schools. The traditional notions of languages as distinct and pure systems should be replaced by fluid visions of language for a society in constant movement, as pointed out by Jan Blommaert (2012). When two or more people who don’t share a common language interact, they sometimes rely on language fragments or diverse semiotic resources to communicate. There is a scenario of intense mixture of languages, in which different repertoires are necessary.

Similarly, the dynamic framework (García, 2009) considers language as repertoire, created through the lived experience of language (Busch, 2012; 2015). It presupposes language not as something one owns, but as something one does. In this perspective, interaction is based on the integration and not separation of languages and resources, an understanding associated with the notion of translanguaging. In the Multicultural Breakfast sessions, translanguaging is made visible through the various resources mentioned by participants in their interaction with researchers, including, for instance, the use of technology to assist communication and understanding. Translanguaging is characterized by the interconnected ways in which individuals select and use their language resources from a unitary linguistic repertoire to negotiate and create meaning. Translanguaging can be understood both as a theoretical lens and a pedagogical approach, when teachers intentionally plan for and use fluid language practices in the classroom. In this sense, translanguaging also lends itself to de-encapsulation, according to Sara Vogel and Ofelia García (2017).

The distance between how the curriculum is presented in schools and how it can be explored in real life has motivated studies in the field of de-encapsulation (Liberali et al., 2015, Liberali, 2019b). Traditionally, schoolwork generates individual changes in ways of knowing and being. From the perspective of de-encapsulation, these changes occur collectively and through a variety of cultural artifacts. This process of de-encapsulation allows for school curriculum to be understood as opportunities for problem posing and solving, creating enhanced possibilities for learning outside of the disciplines, the teaching resources and the school itself (Liberali 2019a, 2019b). De-encapsulation builds on the notion of an ecology of knowledges (Santos, 2006) as central to environments where creativity, innovation and transformation flourish. De-encapsulated practices challenge pre-established truths and value multiculturalism, through an open and continuous process of construction and deconstruction, which results from the interactions between people of different cultural backgrounds. It is not limited to the acceptance of various cultures but is characterized by a movement of appreciation and approximation between them, a disposition which should also be addressed in schools (Freire, 2003). The Multicultural Breakfasts project can be viewed through the lens of de-encapsulation, as it aimed to approximate learners to the real world, through events that connected to the reasons for exploration and immigration. While exploring these concepts collaboratively, learners also learned about the formation of the Brazilian people and addressed national standards. De-encapsulation is not only about creating context and connection, but also how different perspectives are valued, in an intentional effort to create meaning and enable agency and transformation.

CLEMENSHA, S.; LIBERALI, F. De-encapsulated Bilingual Education in Brazil: Multicultural Breakfasts and Translanguaging Kids. ReVista, 19 (2), 2020. Available at: https:// revista.drclas.harvard.edu/de-encapsulated-bilingual-education -in-brazil. Retrieved on: January 6, 2026. Adapted.

Text II

De-encapsulated Bilingual Education in Brazil: Multicultural Breakfasts and Translanguaging Kids

In Brazil, when we talk about bilingual education, we are talking about two very different realities. Children and youth from minoritarian and underprivileged groups such as immigrant, indigenous or deaf communities make up one group, as Antonieta Megale (2019) points out. The other is children of wealthy people who learn another language to further enhance their privileged participation in society. Brazilians seem to cultivate a notion of monolingualism and, although there are more than 200 languages spoken in the country (Maher, 2013), they seem to be made invisible, which reinforces a denial of cultural diversity in the country (Monte Mór, 2002). We believe that education should provide expansive new modes of effective participation in society to offer students the chance to increasingly develop forms of insertion in the world and means to transform their mobility. The expansion of mobility should imply the creation of language practices at school which can lead to the reflection of life through a large range of possibilities of understanding concepts, content and knowledge through diverse sources as well as through various semiotic resources and multiple languages. As part of the Global South, Brazilians must figure out ways of teaching in a multilingual perspective to lessen human suffering, as suggested by Ofelia García (2019). Thus, bilingual education in Brazil should involve breaking with modules imposed by educational parameters or cultural biases, which impose a mono-ideology that makes it difficult to move in the direction of a multi/ intercultural perspective. Turning to the challenges presented by globalization, especially in a country with extreme social differences such as Brazil, we must become critically aware of the ways in which schools position themselves regarding local and global issues. When teaching and learning practices enable connections between such issues and the learners’ different realities and needs, change and transformation are more likely to occur.

Aiming at showing how some schools in Brazil are striving to implement multicultural and multilingual practices, distancing themselves from the prescribed curriculum and the traditional separation between languages, we will describe an example taken from Multicultural Breakfasts, a research project carried out at Esfera Escola Internacional, a bilingual school in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. The methodology was based on critical collaborative research (Magalhães, 2011), in which researchers are included as active participants in the search for shared solutions. Discourse analysis was used to reveal how language was materialized in the participant’s interactions. Although the majority of the students at Esfera are Brazilian, about 15% are from other countries, thus creating a diverse linguistic landscape. Four teachers, coordinators and students made up the research group for the year. The school follows an inquiry-based curriculum, which is organized through transdisciplinary projects in the primary years. To begin their inquiries and provoke questions for exploration, the students read migration stories of children from around the world. They later explored their own family stories of travel and change, and connected them to how the Brazilian people were formed. Making room for further questioning and critical thinking, the students also looked at how migration movements have been affecting people and places in Brazil and the world today. As a performance task, the students invited their parents to breakfast at school, with typical dishes from their countries of origin, and presented their new understandings using different resources and the languages of their preference.

The Multicultural Breakfasts’ example helps us understand how dynamic language practices and de-encapsulation can support teaching and learning, while also enabling agency and social transformation. Ofelia García (2009, p. 9) asserts that “Bilingual education in the twenty-first century must be reimagined and expanded, as it takes its rightful place as a meaningful way to educate all children and language learners in the world today.” She proposes that the dynamic language practices that take place in the social environment should have a place in bilingual schools, to enhance learning and transform conditions of social injustice. The complex networks of language practices in which children interact today are no longer supported by linear language instruction. Knowing how to interact dynamically and collaboratively in this new reality is a challenge faced by the new generations and, consequently, a goal for bilingual schools. The traditional notions of languages as distinct and pure systems should be replaced by fluid visions of language for a society in constant movement, as pointed out by Jan Blommaert (2012). When two or more people who don’t share a common language interact, they sometimes rely on language fragments or diverse semiotic resources to communicate. There is a scenario of intense mixture of languages, in which different repertoires are necessary.

Similarly, the dynamic framework (García, 2009) considers language as repertoire, created through the lived experience of language (Busch, 2012; 2015). It presupposes language not as something one owns, but as something one does. In this perspective, interaction is based on the integration and not separation of languages and resources, an understanding associated with the notion of translanguaging. In the Multicultural Breakfast sessions, translanguaging is made visible through the various resources mentioned by participants in their interaction with researchers, including, for instance, the use of technology to assist communication and understanding. Translanguaging is characterized by the interconnected ways in which individuals select and use their language resources from a unitary linguistic repertoire to negotiate and create meaning. Translanguaging can be understood both as a theoretical lens and a pedagogical approach, when teachers intentionally plan for and use fluid language practices in the classroom. In this sense, translanguaging also lends itself to de-encapsulation, according to Sara Vogel and Ofelia García (2017).

The distance between how the curriculum is presented in schools and how it can be explored in real life has motivated studies in the field of de-encapsulation (Liberali et al., 2015, Liberali, 2019b). Traditionally, schoolwork generates individual changes in ways of knowing and being. From the perspective of de-encapsulation, these changes occur collectively and through a variety of cultural artifacts. This process of de-encapsulation allows for school curriculum to be understood as opportunities for problem posing and solving, creating enhanced possibilities for learning outside of the disciplines, the teaching resources and the school itself (Liberali 2019a, 2019b). De-encapsulation builds on the notion of an ecology of knowledges (Santos, 2006) as central to environments where creativity, innovation and transformation flourish. De-encapsulated practices challenge pre-established truths and value multiculturalism, through an open and continuous process of construction and deconstruction, which results from the interactions between people of different cultural backgrounds. It is not limited to the acceptance of various cultures but is characterized by a movement of appreciation and approximation between them, a disposition which should also be addressed in schools (Freire, 2003). The Multicultural Breakfasts project can be viewed through the lens of de-encapsulation, as it aimed to approximate learners to the real world, through events that connected to the reasons for exploration and immigration. While exploring these concepts collaboratively, learners also learned about the formation of the Brazilian people and addressed national standards. De-encapsulation is not only about creating context and connection, but also how different perspectives are valued, in an intentional effort to create meaning and enable agency and transformation.

CLEMENSHA, S.; LIBERALI, F. De-encapsulated Bilingual Education in Brazil: Multicultural Breakfasts and Translanguaging Kids. ReVista, 19 (2), 2020. Available at: https:// revista.drclas.harvard.edu/de-encapsulated-bilingual-education -in-brazil. Retrieved on: January 6, 2026. Adapted.