Práticas de Escrita e de Reflexão sobre a Escrita em Diferentes Mídias | Writing Practices across Media

Our research group has researchers and students interested in literacy and writing practices across different media. We also work with the composition and circulation of texts at school and with local processes of internationalization and globalization of academic writing.

Aryane Santos Nogueira works as an Assistant Professor at the State University of Campinas and she has been teaching sign language and deaf education at this same university (Faculty of Education) since 2017 and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at IEL (Institute of Language Studies) – Unicamp. She has also taught undergraduate courses at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Her research interests range from current trends in language education and deaf education studies (bilingual education, multilingual and multimodal communication, questions of language-culture-identity, applied linguistics and deaf education), the interface between deaf education and sociolinguistics contemporary thoughts about language (translingual practices, sociosemiotic repertoires, transsemiotic and transmodal aspects of communication of deaf people) and teacher training for deaf education (theory and practice). She has published papers on these topics in Revista da Anpoll; Revista Linguagem em (Dis)curso; Revista Leitura, among others.

Rita de Fátima Rodrigues Guimarães is a first-year PhD student. Her doctoral research investigates how the immersive media Virtual Reality can be incorporated into the classrooms to assist literary reading classes. She holds a B.A. in Languages (Portuguese and English) from Centro Universitário Padre Anchieta, a B.A. in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas. During her master’s degree, she investigated the use of a multimedia material, which included Augmented Reality (AR) and a poem reading for students in the first and second years of Middle School. The analysis of results pointed to the potential of AR to be used in pedagogical context with poem reading.

Luisa Ianhes Moyses has a B.A in Languages – (Portuguese) from the State University of Campinas (2016), and is a Master’s student in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas, specializing in ​​Language and Education. Her research is about the strategies in the use of punctuation in abstracts written by students of the Interdisciplinary Higher Education Program (Programa de Formação Interdisciplinar Superior – ProFIS) at the State University of Campinas.

Maria Luiza Alves is master’s degree student in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), in the research line “Language and Linguistic Education”, and she is a Portuguese teacher, specializing in Language and Writing in Basic Education and in university entrance examinations. She has a B.A in Languages (Portuguese and Spanish) from the Federal University of Alfenas (Unifal-MG).

Elis Siqueira holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics (2018), with emphasis on Language and Technology, at the State University of Campinas and a B.A. in Languages – Portuguese (2015) from the State University of Campinas. During her undergraduate studies, she developed a research about remediation and hypermodality in an e-book reading process. In 2014, she took part in an exchange program at the University of Évora, in Portugal, where she deepened her studies on Portuguese literature, English literature, theater texts and visual arts’ fields. Also, in 2014, Elis completed an English course by Embassy Brighton, in England. During her Master’s degree, she investigated folksonomies and hashtags in tourism photos in Rio de Janeiro’s slums posted on Instagram. In 2018, she began a PhD research in Applied Linguistics, also at the State University of Campinas, and since then she has been investigating tags, hashtags and hypermediatic frames used in social media throughout the last Brazilian presidential elections. From 2012 to 2015, she participated in the research group E- LANG, coordinated by Professor Denise Braga and, since 2016, has been a member of the project “Hypermedia literacy and language teaching”, coordinated by Professor Inês Signorini. In addition to her interest in language and technology studies, Elis also seeks to deepen her interdisciplinary studies and, for that, began her second Undergraduate studies in Social Sciences at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the State University of Campinas. Since 2011, she has been working as a Portuguese Language teacher, specifically with Text Production for High School students.

Karina Menegaldo is a third-year PhD student in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas. From 2018 to 2019, she participated in a Doctoral Exchange program at Atilf University, under the supervision of Professor Alex Boulton. Her research focuses on mapping structural textual norms in abstracts in Portuguese. Her master’s degree research was about Referential Progression in journalistic texts. She works at DOAJ as an associated editor and at De Letra em Letra (UNIFESP) as Head editor. In addition, she is an editorial assistant at Works in Applied Linguistic Journal (Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada – TLA). Her fields of interests are: academic literacy, machine learning, data-driven learning, artificial intelligence and social interactions involving language and technology.

LaerteLuis Orpinelli Neto is a master’s student in Applied Linguistics at the State University of Campinas and works as a High school teacher. He has a passion for writing and has been working, since 2015, with teenager groups focusing on university entrance examinations. He has a B.A. in Languages – Portuguese and during his undergraduate studies, his research focused on image reading and on patterns of reading in verbal and visual texts as well as on the uses of stereotypes to fill reading gaps in unconventional images. More recently, his research is about the ways in which graduate students in Applied Linguistics use English and digital resources to write abstracts for international journals. His study also aims to verify the relationship between the writing of the abstracts and the university’s ongoing internationalization process, for which he was granted a CNPq scholarship