My Research Group: aCOMTECe approaches the studies on Science Communication under the light of Cognitive Linguistics and is aimed at working with linguistic theory, technology and pedagogy applied to how science can be effectively communicated via writing, based on the narrative and figurative patterns of scientific texts.
aCOMTECe means "to happen" and stands for COM = communication; tece = text and TEC = technology.
The group was founded at IFSP São João da Boa Vista, Brazil on August 24 2019 and has four professors and twelve graduate and undergraduate students as members.
CNPq: http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/2031602251685513
Website: https://acomtece.sbv.ifsp.edu.br
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/acomtece
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acomtece/
Group Description: https://youtu.be/hJjnakd0Utg
My lab: Laletec is a Scientific Literacy and Technical Writing Lab I founded in 2015 and have coordinated since then with the partnership of a librarian and a computer science engineer. We work on the education of new scientists teaching them information literacy, the use of tech tools for research methodology and scientific & technical writing.
Website: https://laletec.sbv.ifsp.edu.br
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/laletec
Project Description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-nhMj-1Ar8
Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) at the Faculty of Communication, Administration and Arts (EsAct) at the Mirandela Campus in Portugal as a result of an international agreement of this institute with IFSP which aims to promote internationalization, applied research and formative innovation. I'm teaching Scientific Methodology in a Master's Program of Game Development & Design and Project Design in an undergraduate course of Multimedia, integrating my classes with professors of computing and visual design.
Website: https://esact.ipb.pt
The Language, Cognition and Teaching for Scientific Education in Professional and Technological Education Project aims to educate scientists for life, making scientific research and written communication (as learning processes) a method of sharing the knowledge produced, stimulating the integral formation of new student researchers, having as values integration, collaboration, empathy, autonomy, innovation and internationalization. As a cognitive theoretical contribution, it is based on conceptual integration (blending theory) as to understand the origin of new ideas. It develops, from cognitive tools such as analogy and categorization, transversal and interdisciplinary strategies to boost human creativity in the knowledge production, in the communication and diffusion of science and in the application of knowledge in the world of work. As a methodology, it produces content and develops and applies educational products using technology for teaching at Professional and Technological Education, focusing on conceptual discussions and innovative teaching proposals.
Website: https://profept.srt.ifsp.edu.br
International research collaboration in teaching science communication in two technological institutions of education in Brazil and Norway.
International academic research collaboration allows researchers to tackle complex problems together as it promotes shared learning and innovation and helps researchers gain access to resources such as funding and expertise. This project aims to consolidate and enhance established collaboration between two Applied Linguistics professors and researchers from two Technological Institutes of Education in Brazil and Norway. From an Applied Linguistics approach used in language teaching for academic purposes and based on cognitive-linguistic perspectives, they plan to develop research and educational practices on scientific communication/writing for professional education. It is a two-year work plan integrated to a Memo of Understanding signed by IFSP and NTNU. The expected impact is knowledge production and transfer as they aim to publish papers, books and book chapters, attend conferences, offer online workshops together and promote a technical visit of the IFSP professor to NTNU.
NTNU: https://www.ntnu.edu
My partner - Professor Hana Gustafsson: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/hana.gustafsson
IFSP International Relations (ARINTER): https://www.ifsp.edu.br/institucional?layout=edit&id=1085
Extension Curricularization Projects:
Development of technological tools to support teaching training in educational assessment in Medicine Undergraduate Courses, in partnership with Unifae - https://www.fae.br/unifae2/cursos/medicina/ .
Integrated Extensionist Action in Communication Engineering, in partnership with E.E. Anésia Martins Mattos - https://desjboavista.educacao.sp.gov.br/e-e-anesia-martins-mattos/ .
The Scientific Storytelling Project is an investigation of the narrative and figurative patterns of scientific texts from image schemas, semantic frames, blends and metaphors for pedagogical applications with the use of technological tools. We work with Cognitive Linguistics Empirical Methods, Corpus Linguistics, Data Science, Conceptual Modeling and Design Thinking.
For a full description see: https://ojs.ifsp.edu.br/index.php/sinergia/article/view/1112
My MOOC: The Laletec Scientific Communication MOOC aims to teach new researchers how to use: reliable information sources and search strategies for literature review; technological tools for collecting and treating data in the research methodology; and writing strategies for style, formatting and rhetoric structure of scientific texts.
http://mooc.ifsp.edu.br/course/redacao-cientifica-com-tecnologia-laletec/intro
Post-Doc Visiting Researcher: Cognitive science is the transdisciplinary study of the human mind. Research emphases are on the interaction of brain and culture in development and evolution, the origins of human higher-order cognition, the role of language, body and social interaction in shaping human cognition, and the operation of systems that human beings have invented to guide their thought and action individually and culturally.
My partner: Red Hen is a global big data science laboratory and consortium for research into multimodal communication. Its mission is based on three goals: the theory of multimodal communication; the development of computational, statistical and technical tools for big data science; and pedagogy for learning environments.
Basic Text Pipeline: Some "multimodal communications" consist of text files. A scientific article is such a piece of data. These files can be processed and tagged so as to create files of metadata that can then be searched and further processed. This project focuses on processing and tagging abstracts of scientific articles for frames to make it easier to analyze them for image-schematic and narrative structure as well as blending constructions.