PASTORELLO, Adriana. The impact of brasilian Portuguese through internet for Portuguese basic education. []. , 15, pp.175-187. ISSN 1645-7250.

The article analyses a situation in a 4th grade classroom of a school in Lisbon - Portugal, where the professor presents to the students an instructive text about the human body which was engendered by a Brazilian internet user found in the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. The professor´s actions transforming the text to Potuguese orthography and her comments about it, are analysed. To contextualize the episode, the article presents comments about the orthographic Agreement of the Portuguese language community, the public reactions about it, the impact of the introduction of the internet as a research source for Portuguese students. The results show a concern of the Portuguese professor in exposing her students to the orthography of the Protuguese from Brazil by internet.

: Portuguese from Brazil; Portuguese from Portugal; orthographic agreement.

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