Coordinator
2024 – present
Dr. Leonardo da Silva
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
He is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (DLLE) at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), a permament faculty member in the Graduate Program in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies (PPGI/UFSC), coordinator of the Center for Research and Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (NUPLE), and coordinator of the UFSC Test Center for the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese as a Foreign Language (CELPE-Bras). He holds a doctoral degree from the Graduate Program in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies (UFSC), with a specialization in Language Studies, a master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the same program, and an undergraduate degree in English Language and Literatures (UFSC). He has experience teaching English and Portuguese as additional languages, having taught Portuguese language and cultural studies at Middlebury College (USA) in undergraduate programs and in the Portuguese School immersion program. His research interests include: task-based language teaching, critical pedagogy in language education, critical tasks, and identity and intersectionality (race, class, gender, sexuality, disability and generation) in the teaching of additional languages.
Lattes curriculum: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7865306957193962
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7346-5966
E-mail: leonardo.silva.l@ufsc.br
