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BraCE

BraCES is a project proposed by a small group of Brazilian researchers from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, with the objective of compiling a corpus of Lingua Franca - Spanish and English - in interactions happening in our local context, in Brazil. Here you will find all the information about the researchers, the corpus, references that base our pillars of investigation. The main idea here is to instigate and motivate different research projects around Brazil - and also the world - which aim to analyze corpus and understand how speakers use the language to interact with each other in a multilingual context. This site is a door for new discussions in the Lingua Franca research area and everybody is completely welcome to join the group and share opinions, works, and interests with us. 

 

We hope you enjoy it!

 

Lead Researchers:

Prof. Dr. Lucielen Porfirio - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

Prof. Dr. Camilla Santero Pontos - Brasilia University (UnB) 

 
ILF BRASIL

This is an initiative of a small group of Brazilian researchers from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, with the objective of sharing our ideas, concerns, and discoveries related to the global spread of the English language, and its political, ideological, and pedagogic implications around the world, and more specifically in our instructional and social contexts. Here you will find different sections centered around the three main pillars of our interests of investigation, Criticism, Attitude, and Identity, closely intertwined with the condition of English as the world’s lingua franca. This is a door for new friends and colleagues to join the group and share their opinions, works, and interests with us. Contributions and suggestions are most welcome.

We hope you enjoy it!

Prof. Dr. Sávio Siqueira (Lead researcher)
Department of Germanic Languages
Institute of Letters at UFBA
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

 

Meet Our Group

PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS

A autoria de si e o emergir da Língua-Cultura do aprendiz de inglês: Esta língua me representa?
Author: Lucielen Porfirio; Juliana Silva
Year: 2016
English as a lingua franca: recent developments
Author: Telma Gimenez; Michele El Kadri; Luciana Calvo; Sávio Siqueira; Lucielen Porfirio
Year: 2015
English as an International Language: for a critical intercultural pedagogy
Author: Sávio Siqueira
Year: 2015
Which English please your ear? An attitude study on accents in times of English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Juliana Silva
Year: 2013

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METHODOLOGY

TEAM


Camilla Santero Pontes
Camilla Santero Pontes holds a PhD in Letters and Linguistics from UFBA, with a Master's Degree in Neo-Latin Languages from UFRJ. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Instituto de Letras at UFBA and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Instituto de Letras at UnB. She is interested and has... See more

Lucielen Porfirio
Lucielen Porfirio is a professor Department of Germanic Languages – Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She has been teaching English for about 15 years. She also has MA in Linguistics from Paraná West State University (UNIOESTE) and a Phd in Language and Culture in Bahia Federal University (UFBA... See more

Ana Beatriz Almeida
Ana Beatriz Almeida has an English and Portuguese degree at Federal University of Bahia. She became part of the group English as a Lingua Franca: criticism, attitude and identity in her first semester and fell in love with the idea. There she heard about BraCE - Brazil Corpus of English and got a... See more

Carla Cerqueira
Carla Daiane Cerqueira is a graduating student. She is studying Portuguese and English as Foreign Language at Federal University of Bahia. She became part of the group English as a Lingua Franca as student Graduation and advanced to English Bachelor: multilinguism, identity and pragmatics in her... See more

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