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Glaucia Silva

faculty

Glaucia Silva, PhD she/ela

Professor

Portuguese

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-999-8271

508-910-6502

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Spruce Hall 0168

Education

1999University of IowaPhD
1991University of IowaMA
1988Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBA

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

The study of a specific topic, author, or literary period from Portugal, Brazil and/or Lusophone Africa. May be repeated with change in content.

Continuation of POR 301.

Action research for in-service teachers. Participants will make connections between their theoretical understandings of research and their own emergence as practitioner researchers as producers of knowledge through studying their own practice. They will identify a problem in their practice, develop a research plan, gather and analyze data, reflect on results, and develop implications for future teaching practice and action research

Study of a specific topic, author or literary period from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa or elsewhere in the Lusophone World (Asia, Lusophone diaspora), as well as related advanced work in literary theory and cultural studies.

Research

Research interests

  • Teaching and learning Portuguese as a heritage language
  • Language inclusiveness

Gláucia Silva is a Professor in the Department of Portuguese at UMass Dartmouth. She specializes in heritage and foreign language learning, with a focus on Portuguese. Professor Silva has co-authored four Portuguese language textbooks and is the author of Word Order in Brazilian Portuguese (De Gruyter, 2001/2013). She has also published several scholarly articles and book chapters, both in English and in Portuguese. Her graduate advisees have investigated different aspects related to Portuguese language and linguistics, such as the roles of attitude and motivation in learning Portuguese, service encounters in Portuguese in Massachusetts, gay articulations of desire in Rio de Janeiro, the impact of anxiety on learning Portuguese, using songs in the foreign language classroom, task-based language teaching, mother-child interactions in a bilingual family, among others.