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Biography
I studied English and Portuguese at the
Universidade Federal do
Rio de Janeiro and Psychology at the
Universidade Estadual do Rio de
Janeiro for my undergraduate degrees. After that, I worked as an EFL
teacher for about 9 years (From 1992 to 2001) in Rio de Janeiro at a variety of contexts,
using various methodologies and working with students from diverse cultural
and social backgrounds and of various age-ranges. I worked mainly in language
schools teaching general English to children, teenagers and adults, and in higher education teaching EAP (English for
Academic Purposes).
In 1999 I took a Masters degree in Applied
Linguistics at the Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro. My
Masters dissertation presented
an analysis of a way of teaching lexis based on a socio-interactional
view of learning. In October 2001 I moved to the UK in order to undertake a
full-time M.A. in English Language Teaching at the
Linguistics Department of Lancaster
University. This second Masters dissertation dealt with the use of
text-based asynchronous computer conferencing in two different postgraduate
courses at
Lancaster
University.
From 2002 to 2005 I worked on my
doctoral
thesis at Lancaster
University, which is a
study of the impact of Interactive Whiteboard technology on the English
language classroom. While doing my PhD, I worked as a part time tutor at the Department
of Linguistics, where I taught applied linguistics at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and EAP. I was also
involved in designing pedagogical materials for the EAP/Study skills courses
provided by the University in order to integrate ICT, through the use of
interactive whiteboard technology, into the teaching/learning process.
Currently I work as an
assistant professor (Junior Professorin) at the
English Department
of the University
of Education (Paedagogische Hochschule) in Heidelberg, Germany.
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