About us
Coordinators
Juliana Zeggio Martinez
Juliana Zeggio Martinez has a PhD in Languages from the University of São Paulo (USP). She currently teaches English at the Federal University of Paraná. Her research interests focus on initial and continuing language teacher training, international and intercultural teacher training, language education, critical literacy, decolonial studies and linguistic and educational policies/practices.
Coordination: 2018-2020 and 2023
Angela Wasleko
Prof. Dr. Angela Maria Hoffmann Walesko has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and works in the Education Sector of the same university with Teaching Methodology and supervised internship in foreign languages – English and German. Her professional experience includes teaching Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education in private and public institutions and language schools, as well as authoring and editing textbooks. She is a researcher in the area of teacher education, interculturalism, Critical Literacy, translingualism, and English as a Lingua Franca.
Coordination: 2018-2023
Denise Hibarino
Denise A. Hibarino holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (UNICAMP), a master’s degree in Literature and a degree in English (UFPR). For the past fifteen years, she has been engaged in teaching English at private and public universities in Brazil. Currently, she is interested in the areas of research on literacy, teacher management and decolonial practices.
Coordination: 2021-2022
Tutors
Laís Mattuella
Undergrad in English from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 2019. She works as an elementary school teacher.
Project tutor: 2023
Bianca Mounic Santos
Bianca Mounic Santos is majoring in English and Portuguese at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). She worked as a PLE (Portuguese as a foreign language) teacher and volunteered in the Brazilian Portuguese for Humanitarian Migration (PBMIH) program in 2018. Her research interests are critical literacy, language and identity, and project-based pedagogy.
Project tutor: 2021
Lucas Henrique Gonçalves Soethe
Lucas Henrique Gonçalves Soethe is majoring in English Language at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).
Project tutor: 2021
Antônio Paulo Steffen Neto
Antonio is a Portuguese and German graduate of UFPR. He was part of the PIBID projects, Pedagogical Residency, and scientific initiation in Historical Linguistics.
Project tutor: 2020
Ana Sílvia
Ana Sílvia is an undergraduate student of Portuguese and German at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), she has experience as a German language teacher in language schools. Her areas of interest are Teaching German as a Second Language, Critical Literacy, and German-Brazilian Literary Studies.
Project tutor: 2020
Fernanda Marconcin Rodrigues
She graduated in Portuguese and English at UFPR. Worked as an English teacher in kindergarten and elementary school. Rodrigues is interested in bilingual education, critical literacy, and project-based pedagogy.
Project tutor: 2019
Teacher-trainer collaborators
Teresa Troyer
Teresa Troyer is a Doctoral Student (OSU) specializing in Language, Education and Society. She holds graduate degrees in Composition/TESOL and in Teaching and Learning/ Administration. She has nearly thirty years of professional experience in education across contexts and locations including New York City, Dayton (OH), Brazil, China, Colombia, Honduras, Indonesia, Slovakia, and Turkey. She is currently an EL Lead Teacher in Dublin City Schools, focusing on high school multilingual students and their teachers.
Derek Alvarado
Derek Alvarado currently works as an Intervention Specialist at a credit recovery school in Dayton, Ohio. He holds a graduate degree in special education and an administrative license. He is currently working on a TESOL endorsement. He has 20+ years of professional experience in education in a variety of school settings in southwestern Ohio, including in youth corrections. He has also taught Intensive English courses at universities in Brazil, China, Colombia, Honduras, Indonesia, and Turkey.
Katia Mulik
PhD in Linguistic and Literary Studies from USP; English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer in the Paraná state network. Teacher trainer in the project “Grupo de Estudos Formadores em Ação” (Study Group Trainers in Action), which aims to develop continuing education activities using theoretical-practical scripts prepared by the Paraná State Department of Education (SEED-PR). High school English teacher and author of books and articles
Rogério Tílio
Rogério Tilio holds a PhD in Language Studies and has been working at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro as Associate Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics since 2009. He has coordinated several projects for teacher education and is the author of EFL textbooks. His research interests include: analysis, evaluation and production of pedagogical materials, critical (multi)literacies, language teaching and teacher education. He was a member of the board of the Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics from 2012 to 2019.
Kristin Bourdage
Prof. Dr. Kristin Bourdage works in curriculum administration and instruction with elementary schools in the Olentangy School District and also as a professor in the Department of Education at Otterbein University in Ohio, USA. She is a researcher and author in the areas of literacy, curriculum design, project-based learning and classroom discussion approaches. She has been coordinating the Teachers without Borders project in the United States since 2017.
Deise Picanço
Deise Picanço has a degree in Portuguese/Spanish language (1995), a Master in Education (2001), and a PhD in Letters (2006) from UFPR – Federal University of Paraná. She currently works in the area of teacher education, especially with the teaching of Neolatin Languages, and conducts research on the following topics: Methodology of language teaching, History of language teaching in Brazil, Discourse Analysis on language and its teaching, Analysis and Production of teaching materials. Her main theoretical references are Applied Linguistics, Bakhtin’s Circle, and French Discourse Analysis. She is a professor in the Language and Education Graduate Program at UFPR, Language, Body, and Aesthetics, and participates in the NPPD Research Group on didactic publications and the NELID/PIPGLA/UFRJ Research Group.
Angela Bussmann
Angela Cristina Cavichiolo Bussmann has a degree in Portuguese/English Letters (UTP, 1994), a Specialization in English Language Teaching (UTP, 1997), the Certificate of Japanese-language – level 4 (Japan, 2000), the University Research and Extension Program in English Literature (Nara University of Education, Japan, 2000), the Certificate of Proficiency in English (University of Cambridge, 2002). She works as a teacher and coordinator in the Positivo network of schools in Curitiba, Paraná, and as a technician and teacher trainer for the foreign language team of the Municipal Education Department of Curitiba, Paraná.
Maristela Gabardo
She holds an undergraduate degree in Portuguese and Spanish (2005) and an undergraduate degree in English from the Federal University of Paraná (2008). She completed her Master’s degree in 2011 with emphasis on linguistic studies (Linguistic Politeness) at the same institution. She has experience in the area of Languages, with emphasis on Modern Languages, acting and having interest mainly in the relations between technology, society and teaching focused on: media, literacy, teaching modern foreign languages, educational technologies, active methodologies, project methodology, distance learning methodologies, high school, media education and technical/ technological education.
Isabel Marson
Isabel Cristina Vollet Marson holds a PhD in Languages – Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Paraná (2019). She is a professor in the Department of Language Studies at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG), as well as Coordinator of the ongoing research project “Teacher Training, Multiliteracies and English as a Lingua Franca”. Her research interests are in the area of English language teaching-learning, teacher education, multiliteracies, English as a lingua franca, translanguaging practices, information and communication technologies, internationalization of universities, virtual learning environments and distance education.
Cloris Torquato
Clóris Porto Torquato holds a PhD in Linguistics from the State University of Campinas (2009). She teaches undergraduate courses in Languages at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) and postgraduate courses in Languages at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). She has experience in Linguistics, with emphasis on Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics, working mainly on the following themes: language policies, linguistic ideologies, teacher education, pedagogical practice, literacies, discourse (Bakhtin’s Circle), interculturalism and decolonial studies. She also develops an extension project on Portuguese as an Additional Language (PLA) and Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages (PFOL): interculturality and academic literacies, in which she works with all the themes explained above.
Alessandra Coutinho
Professor at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of the Federal University of Paraná. PhD in Linguistic Studies – Discourse Analysis – from the Federal University of Paraná (2011). She holds a master’s degree in Languages (English and Corresponding Literature) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1996), a specialization in English and Corresponding Literature from the Federal University of Paraíba (1991) and a BA in Languages – Portuguese and English from the Federal University of Paraíba (1990). She did postdoctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August/2016 to January/2017) and at USP (February/2017 to July/2017), with a focus on multilingualism and the initial education of language teachers. She participates in the research group Identity and Reading, at UFPR, and in the research group National Literacies Project: Language, Culture, Education and Technology, based at USP. Areas of interest: new and multiliteracies, critical literacy, Critical Discourse Analysis, foreign language teaching, foreign language teacher education.