Documents and domains Aspects of Intercultural Education in English Language Teaching (ELT) in Portugal

The early learning of English in the state school network Portugal has been subject a wide debate, which not exhausted by introduction teaching as curricular 1st cycle, 2015, and helped to develop intercultural awareness greater number children. new programmes guideline documents emanating from Ministry Education, where objectives areas have redefined, discussed changed since supranational imposition Common European Framework Reference 2001, with increasing allusions domain English. Likewise, all academic literature, authors such Byram (2006; 2009) Guilherme . (2006), points centrality competence citizenship curriculum construction first years schooling. This article seeks analyze extent these intentions visions “Intercultural Domain” incorporated into reference and, turn, will be structuring experience language Portuguese children