Mr. Marco A. Schaumloeffel
BA (Unisinos, Brazil), MA (UFPR, Brazil)

Lecturer in Brazilian Studies (Portuguese, Brazilian Culture and Brazilian Film)

Tel.: (246) 417-4016
Fax: (246) 434-0634
E-mail: marco.schaumloeffel (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

Marco Schaumloeffel was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and studied German, Portuguese and Literature at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) and Linguistics and Dialectology at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Before coming to Cave Hill in 2005, he worked for the German Goethe Institute and a Swiss School in Curitiba, Brazil (1994-2002) and as Brazilian Lecturer at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana (2003-2005). Since 2001 he is one of the five elected members in the board of the International Association of Teachers of German (IDV), which represents over 250,000 German teachers, lecturers and professors worldwide. He is IDV webmaster and editor of the periodicals “IDV-Magazin” and “IDV aktuell”.

Research Interests:

Tabom – The Afro-Brazilian returnees to Ghana, German and Brazilian Dialectology, Brazilian Film and Culture, Papiamento, use of new technologies in language learning.

Select Publications:

• Tabom. A comunidade de afro-brasileiros do Gana. // Tabom. The Afro-Brazilian community of Ghana. 2. ed. Lulu, 2008. v. 1. 302 p. (bilingual edition).
  
  
• Interferência do Português em um Dialeto Alemão Falado no Sul do Brasil. 1. ed. Bridgetown: Lulu, 2007. v. 1. 149 p.
  
  
• History of the Tabom, the Afro-Brazilian community in Ghana. In: Kwesi Kwaa Prah. (Org.). Back to Africa. Afro-Brazilian Returnees and their communities. 1 ed. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2009, v. 1, p. 159-172.
  
  
• Schweizerschule, Schweizer Schule, Schweizer-Schule?. In: Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel; Jürgen Reiter.. (Org.). Meine Heimat ist BrEUsilien. 1 ed. Curitiba: Schweizerschule, 2000, v. , p. 8-10.
  
  
• Die Interferenzen des Portugiesischen im Hunrückischen von Boa Vista do Herval, Rio Grande do Sul. In: I Congresso Latino-Americano de Professores de Alemão & VI Congresso Brasileiro de Professores de Alemão, 2006, São Paulo, Brasil. Tagungsakten des VI. Brasilianischen Deutschlehrerkongresses. São Paulo : Abrapa, 2006. p. 1-9.
  
  
• Internet im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Pädagogische und Didaktische Ansätze. In: Medienkongress Moskau - Internet: Konzeption - Perspektiven, 2000, Moscow, Russia. GI, 2000.
  
  
• A internet no ensino de alemão como língua estrangeira. In: VII Encontro de Professores de Língua Estrangeira, 1998, Londrina - PR, 1998
  
  
• Empréstimos lingüísticos do português nas línguas faladas no País dos Tabons. Palavras (Lisboa, Portugal , v. 34, p. 47-60, 2008.
  
  
• Schaumloeffel, Marco Aurelio ; Bredemeier, Maria Luísa Lenhardt. Zweite Regionalkonferenz Zielsprache Deutsch zum Thema Deutsch an der Schwelle zum Dritten Jahrtausend in Havanna, Kuba vom 18.03.2000 bis zum 25.03.2000. DaF-Brücke (Curitiba), Sao Paulo - SP, v. 35, p. 8-9, 2000

  A complete list of publication can be found at http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4734372U6

Other Information:

Marco Schaumloeffel also does technical translations (English and German to Portuguese) as well as translation of novels from German into Portuguese (e.g “The White Massai” by C. Hofmann and “An exclusive love” by J. Adoriján).