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 Associate 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 anaphoric direct objects in Portuguese, heritage language learning, 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:
2008 (with Denise Santos) "The orchestration of voices in conversation sessions: Rules and roles developed by participants". Português para falantes de espanhol: Ensino e aquisição / Portuguese for Spanish speakers: Teaching and acquisition. São Paulo: Pontes. 135-156.
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. 125-151.
Refereed Journal Articles:
2008 "Heritage language learning and the Portuguese subjunctive." Portuguese Language Journal 3, Fall 2008 http://www.latam.ufl.edu/portugueselanguagejournal/articles.html
2008 (with Denise Santos) "Making suggestions in the workplace: Insights from native and learner discourses." Hispania 91 (September). 651-664.
2008 (with Denise Santos) "Authenticating materials through critical thinking: The case of teaching and learning suggestions in Portuguese." Hispania 91 (March). 110-122.
2006 (with Janice L. Macián and Magdalena Mejía-Gómez) "Peer TA mentoring in a Foreign Language Program". International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Eucation 18:3. 241-249.
2006 (with Denise Santos) "Framing participation through repetition: The case of a Portuguese learner in different settings." Portuguese Language Journal 1, Fall 2006 http://www.latam.ufl.edu/portugueselanguagejournal/articles.html
2003 (with Scott Schwenter) "Anaphoric direct objects in spoken Brazilian Portuguese: semantics and pragmatics," Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana 2. 99-123.
2002 (with Scott Schwenter) "Overt vs. null direct objects in spoken Brazilian Portuguese: a semantic/pragmatic account," Hispania 85.3, 577-586.
Refereed Conference Proceedings:
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. 137-149.
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 90:1.
2004 Cook, Manuela. 2001. Portuguese: A Complete Course in Understanding, Speaking and Writing. London: Hodder & Stoughton. The Modern Language Journal 88:2.
2004 Perini, Mário. 2002. Modern Portuguese: A Reference Grammar. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. The Modern Language Journal 88:1.
2002 Ferreira-Pinto, Cristina. 1999. Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil. New York & London: University Press of America. Hispania 85:3.
Conference Presentations (2005 - Present):
"Anaphoric direct objects in spoken European Portuguese: Variation, topicality and cross-dialectal comparison" (with Scott Schwenter), 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 26-29, 2009.
"Portuguese language maintenance by college students", 2008 Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Orlando, FL, November 21-23, 2008.
"Narratives of the diaspora by heritage learners of Portuguese", Narrating the Portuguese diaspora: 1928-2008, University of Lisbon, October 23-25, 2008.
"Heritage languages in North America: Maintaining (?) Portuguese", Portuguese in North American Universities: Situation and Challenges, University of Toronto, October 16-18, 2008.
"Heritage language learning and the Portuguese subjunctive" (with Sandra Sousa), Sixth International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), Yale University, October 0-11, 2008.
"Language use by generation 1.5: Brazilians in Southeastern Massachusetts", Brazilian-Americans in Georgia and Beyond: A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium, Athens and Atlanta, GA, April 25-26, 2008.
"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), Calgary, October 4-6, 2007.
“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), San Diego, CA, August 2-5, 2007.
"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.
“It’s more than about using the verb ‘sugerir’: how native speakers and learners of Portuguese differ in their ways of making suggestions” (with Denise Santos), Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario, October 19-22, 2006.
“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.
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