Associate Professor at the Department of English Language Studies, Literature and Translation - DELILT - and at the Postgraduate Program in Translation Studies - POET - at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He holds a master's and PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the University of São Paulo (USP). She has a degree in English from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Her main research interests are bilingualism from the perspective of cognition, especially with regard to language and its linguistic skills, such as reading and translating. Her works are in the filed of acquisition, teaching and learning of L2. At the moment, she investigates Lexical Access and the Parafoveal Preview Benefit in monolinguals and bilinguals (BP L1/ EN/SP L2) in the Neuroscience and Cognition Graduate Program at UFABC in SP.