Research Area:

Language and Teaching: The entire educational process is permeated by the development of reading and writing skills, from the early years of schooling to college education. Language is a fundamental tool for assimilating established knowledge and for the re-elaboration of it in the innovation and creation of new knowledge. Thus, the research conducted in this program, which is fundamentally applied in nature, will not be disconnected from the educational outcomes presented by various external assessment instruments to which students in Basic and College Education (Prova Brasil, ENEM, SAERS, SAEB, PISA, ENADE, etc.) are subjected. The program is committed not only to describing the linguistic and educational realities in which these students are immersed but also to intervening in these realities through research that contributes to significant findings for a social, cultural, and intellectual change in these individuals.

Research Lines (as of May 2018):

Teaching and learning of languages (native and additional) in multiple contexts:

Description: This line investigates the process of teaching-learning of native  language and additional languages, establishing a relation between theoretical and empirical perspectives referring to formal, literary, interactional and acquisition related issues in a lot of teaching contexts.

Reading and writing in school practices:

Description: This line investigates the processes of reading and writing across different supports, by theoretical approaches from the fields of language, literature, and education.