Teachers' Rooms

August 17 (Saturday)

From 10h45 to 12h

Teachers' Rooms

Teachers' Rooms are thematic talking sessions aimed at encouraging the dialogue among participants and their teaching experiences.

Choose one the six rooms and join a conversation about:

(1) Music & Cinema; (2) Inclusive Education; (3) Teaching Young Learners; (4) Culture; (5) Diversities; or (6) PDPI Teacher Training Program.

Have you ever worked with any of these themes? Tell us about it!

Do you have teaching material (for example: handouts, board games, flash cards) related to any of these topics? Please, bring it!

Or are you just curious about the room theme? Join us!

Room 1 - Music & Cinema

This will be a place and a moment for sharing teachers’ experiences with their students in the classroom when taking Music & Cinema to the English class.

Facilitators: Danielle Almeida (UFPB) and Renata Gonçalves Gomes (UFPB)

Danielle is a Full Professor at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages (DLEM) at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. Through her research in Visual Semiotics, she has been developing, for almost two decades, multimodal projects in scientific articles of national and international journals. She has recently started to expand her musical semiotic studies from a linguistic perspective that helps teachers, musicians, consumers, educators and researchers towards a more interpretative musical reading. She worked as the Brazilian representative of our northeastern region in the Latin American Systemic-Functional Linguistics Association (ALSFAL). Since 2008, she has been coordinating the Research Group of Visual Semiotics and Multimodality (GPSM).

Renata is a literature professor at Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), in João Pessoa. She has been an undergraduate student majoring in Cinema Studies at the same university since 2021. In the past, she carried out her master and doctoral degrees at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) on Brazilian literature and US literature, respectively. During her doctoral studies, she spent a year as an International Researcher at University of California, Berkeley (UCB). She has been researching since her early academic studies about US and Brazilian literatures, Gender Studies, Counterculture and Cinema.

Special guest: Elizandra Rodrigues Alves da Silva

Elizandra is an English Professor. Since 2021, she has cultivated a diverse experience across private, public and language schools. Currently, she is working in a public school under the Prefeitura de João Pessoa. She has a degree in Modern Languages - English, acquired from Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). In her teaching practice, she focusses on integrating English language learning with dynamic and engaging projects that involve sports, music and literature.

Room 2 - Inclusive Education

Join us in making a difference: every student matters, every teacher counts. Let's share pedagogical practices and possibilities for creating accessible and inclusive learning environments for all.

Facilitator: Rosycléa Dantas (UFPB)

Rosycléa is a professor at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the same university. She is vice-coordinator of the Research Group Agir de Linguagem, Docência e Educação Inclusiva (ALDEI-CNPq). Her research focuses on the inclusive educational process, emphasizing ethical and affective aspects, and on teacher education and teaching work.

Room 3 - Teaching Young Learners

In this room we will be sharing experiences, possibilities and challenges in teaching English to young learners.

Facilitator: Barbara Cabral Ferreira (UFPB)

Barbara is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics (PROLING) at the Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB (2015) and a Master´s degree in Letras from the same institution (2007). She is a member of the following research groups: Programa Nacional de Letramentos (PNL – CNPq) and Letramento, Ensino e Ação Docente em Inglês (Leading – CNPq). Areas of interest: teacher education; English language teaching/learning and multiliteracies.

Room 4 - Culture

Considering the question "What culture does the English language represent?" as the guiding theme for our Teacher’s Room, I would like to invite participants to reflect on and discuss how culture is represented in our English classrooms, whose culture gets to be visible or invisible in our teaching/learning experiences and materials, and how we can bring together the pluricultural dimensions of our students and those of the English speaking worlds.

Facilitator: Flávia Santos de Araújo (UFPB)

Flávia is a literary and cultural studies scholar, holding a PhD and master’s degree in African American studies from UMass Amherst (U.S.A.). Her research and teaching focus on African Diaspora literature and cultural production across the Americas, Women of Color feminisms, and decolonial studies. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Modern Languages (DLEM) at UFPB as an Assistant Professor. Flávia is also a mother, a poet, a percussionist, a dance-lover, and Oxum’s daughter.

Room 5 - Diversities

Framed under the overarching theme of Diversities, our discussions in this room will center on sharing and examining personal and professional intersectional experiences with language, gender, sexuality, race, and social class in Brazilian school contexts. We invite you to engage in insightful conversations that reveal how these complex intersections inform our lived experiences and influence educational journeys. Join us for an intellectually stimulating and dynamic collective learning opportunity!

Facilitator: Fábio Alexandre Silva Bezerra (UFPB)

Fábio has a doctorate in English Language and Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney (USYD). He completed his postdoctoral studies in Sociology at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages (DLEM) and a Permanent Professor in the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PROLING). Additionally, he leads GEPLAM – Research and Study Group in Systemic-Functional Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Multimodality/Multiliteracies (UFPB/CNPq). His main research emphasizes socio-identity differences in transdisciplinary, intersectional, and decolonial perspectives, critical multimodal discourse studies and multiliteracies.

Room 6 - PDPI Teacher Training Program

This room is a place for sharing information and experiences about the PDPI, a collaborative program between CAPES and Fulbright aimed at the professional development of public school teachers. The PDPI program offers scholarships for a six-week intensive course at universities in the USA. We intend to discuss the impacts of cultural immersion and this teaching training course on teachers' practice.

(PDPI - Programa de Desenvolvimento Profissional de Professores de Língua Inglesa)

Facilitators: Adalberto Modeira de Medeiros Junior (6ªGRE/SEE/PB), Ana Tália Ramos (PMJP), and Eveline Alvarez dos Santos (SEE/CELIN)

Adalberto recently attended the PDPI program as a CAPES/FULBRIGHT scholarship recipient in Austin, Texas, USA (2024). He undertook a one-year exchange program in Dublin, Ireland, where he studied at the Dublin International Foundation College (DIFC) (2014). He has extensive experience with the communicative approach in various English language institutes as an English teacher and has also taught English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at IFPB/Princesa Isabel (2009-2011) and IFPB/Esperança (2017-2019). Currently, he is a permanent English teacher in Paraíba/6ª GRE/Patos. He holds a Lato Sensu qualification in English Language Teaching from Universidade Regional do Cariri - URCA (2011) and a Bachelor's degree in Languages and Literature from Faculdades Integradas de Patos (FIP) (2007).

Ana Tália is currently the bilingual coordinator and an English teacher at the bilingual school Dom José Maria Pires (PMJP). She holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PROLING) at the Federal University of Paraíba.She is also a specialist in Language and Teaching of Languages and Literature. Ana completed her Bachelor's degree in English Language at the Federal University of Paraíba, including an academic exchange program at the State University of New York at Oswego. In 2024 she attended a teaching training program at the University of Texas in Austin supported by a Capes/Fulbright scholarship.

Eveline has a degree in Modern Languages - English from UFPB, a specialization in English Language Teaching from UECE, and a Master's degree in Literature and Interculturality from PPGLI - UEPB. She has been an English teacher since 1999. In 2006, she studied for one year at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands as part of the PIANI Project (UFPB). She participated in the Gira Mundo Finlândia program, 21st Century Entrepreneurship in Education, at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (September-October 2018), and the EFOPLI program in 2018/2019. She recently participated in the PDPI program at the University of Texas in Austin during July and August of this year. She was a Temporary Professor at the State University of Paraíba (Campuses III and V), and at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Campus I - DMI). She is currently an English teacher in Paraíba State (Centro Estadual de Línguas do Estado - CELIN).

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