Gláucia Silva received her B.A. from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and her M.A. (in Linguistics) and Ph.D. (in Hispanic Linguistics) from the University of Iowa. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Portuguese, where she supervises and coordinates the Portuguese Language Program. Besides teaching language courses, Dr. Silva also teaches courses in Linguistics and Teaching Methodology and trains Graduate Teaching Assistants. Dr. Silva came to The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from the Ohio State University, where she supervised several Spanish courses and directed the Portuguese Language Program, in addition to teaching Portuguese and Spanish language and linguistics. Her current research interests include Portuguese as a foreign language, non-native discourse analysis, teaching heritage learners, and collaboration between educators and students in college and K-12.
Publications and Presentations:
Book:
2001 Word order in Brazilian Portuguese. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter [Studies in Generative Grammar 57].
Refereed Book Chapter:
2004 (with Denise Santos) “Ensinando português para hispanofalantes: contrastes, transferências e a voz do aprendiz.” In Simões, Antônio, Ana Carvalho and Lyris Wiedeman, eds. Português para falantes de espanhol: Artigos selecionados escritos em português e inglês. São Paulo: Pontes.
Refereed Journal Articles:
To Appear (with Denise Santos) "Making suggestions in the workplace: Insights from native and learner
discourses." Hispania (September 2008).
2008 (with Denise Santos) "Authenticating materials through critical thinking: The case of teaching and
learning suggestions in Portuguese." Hispania 91:1, 109-122.
2006 (with Denise Santos) "Framing participation through repetition: The case of a Portuguese learner in different settings." Portuguese Language Journal, vol. I, Fall 2006. http://www.latam.ufl.edu
2006 (with Jan Macián and Magdalena Mejía-Gómez) "Peer TA mentoring in a foreign language program." International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 18:3.
2003 (with Scott A. Schwenter) “Anaphoric direct objects in spoken Brazilian Portuguese: semantics and pragmatics,” Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana. 1:2, 99-123.
2002 (with Scott A. Schwenter) “Overt vs. null direct objects in spoken Brazilian Portuguese: a semantic/pragmatic account,” Hispania 85:3, 577-586.
Refereed Conference Proceedings:
To Appear: (with Denise Santos) "The orchestration of voices in conversation sessions: Rules and roles developed by participants". Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers.
2005 (with Denise Santos) “A Spanish speaker learning Portuguese: Different settings, different voices,” in Eddington, David, ed. Selected Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Book Reviews:
2007 Cook, Manuela. 2004. Portuguese verbs explained: An essential guide. Herts, UK: Able Publishing. Hispania 90: 2.
2006 Chamberlain, Bobby J. and Ronald M. Harmon. 1983. A Dictionary of Informal Brazilian Portuguese. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. The Modern Language Journal.
2004 Cook, Manuela. 2001. Portuguese: a complete course in understanding, speaking and writing. London: Hodder & Stoughton. The Modern Language Journal.
2004 Perini, Mário A. 2002. Modern Portuguese: a reference grammar. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.The Modern Language Journal.
2002 Ferreira-Pinto, Cristina. Urban voices: contemporary short stories from Brazil. Lanham, New York & London: University Press of America, Hispania 85:3.
Conference Presentations (2004 - Present):
"Teaching and learning Portuguese: Collaboration between college and K-12", IX International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA IX), New Orleans, LA, March 27-29, 2008.
“Production of the subjunctive in Portuguese: Heritage vs. non-heritage learners” (with Sandra Sousa), Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA),
“Making suggestions in Portuguese: Is it about the subjunctive or the indicative?” (with Denise Santos), National Conference, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP),
"Research, teachers and learners as partners in material development" (with Denise Santos), National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), Madison, WI, April 26-29, 2007.
"Suggestions in the workplace as an interactional achievement" (with Denise Santos), American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Costa Mesa, CA, April 21-24, 2007.
“Using Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) Systems to Support Portuguese Instruction” (with Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers), Fifth International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association, University of Minnesota, October 5-7, 2006.
“The orchestration of voices in conversation sessions: Rules and roles developed by participants” (with Denise Santos), II Symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers, Stanford University, CA, March 17-19, 2006.
“Challenges for establishing a Portuguese individualized instruction program in the U.S.” (with Luiz Amaral), South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 4-6, 2005.
“An analysis of repetition in L3 learning” (with Denise Santos), The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2005), Madison, WI, July 24-29, 2005.
“Teaching and learning Portuguese in an Individualized Instruction Program”, 25th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 12-14, 2005.
“Repetition in language learning: The case of a Spanish-speaking learner of Portuguese” (with Denise Santos), 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 15-17, 2004.
“O ensino de português no Meio-Oeste dos Estados Unidos”, 57th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFCL), University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 15-17, 2004.
“Anaphoric direct objects across South America” (with Scott Schwenter), Ohio Latinamericanist Conference, The Ohio State University, February 27, 2004.
“The accessibility of anaphoric direct objects in Brazilian Portuguese” (with Scott Schwenter), Annual Meeting, Linguistc Society of America (LSA), Boston, January 8-11, 2004.
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