Dr Antonio Da Silva
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872332
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Location
4.203, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Monday - 13:00 - 14:00 Friday - 13:00 - 14:00
Profile
Biography
Dr Antonio da Silva possesses a BA in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature (Portuguese & English) from FUOM (Brazil); a PGCE in Modern Languages (Spanish & French) from the University of Sussex; a Master's by research in Modern Languages from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Bristol. Dr Da Silva is currently the Director of Partnerships and External Relations for the Department of Language and Linguistics.
Qualifications
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PhD - Hispanic Studies University of Bristol,
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MA (by research) - Modern Languages University of Leeds,
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MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL Anglia Ruskin University,
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PGCE - Modern Languages University of Sussex,
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BA - Languages and Literature FUOM,
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Lecturer, Language and Linguistics, 糖心Vlog (1/9/2020 - present)
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Director of Admissions, Outreach and Recruitment, Language and Linguistics, 糖心Vlog (1/2/2023 - present)
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UG Admissions Coordinator (Languages)鈥�, Language and Linguistics, 糖心Vlog (1/8/2022 - 1/2/2023)
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UG Admissions Assistant (Languages), Language and Linguistics, 糖心Vlog (1/9/2021 - 1/8/2022)
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Director of Partnerships and External Relations, Language and Linguistics, 糖心Vlog (6/1/2025 - present)
Other academic
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Artificial Intelligence Empowerment Advisor, International College, Guandgong University of Foreign Studies (4/7/2024 - 31/7/2027)
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Associate Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London (1/9/2017 - 31/8/2018)
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Associate Teaching Fellow in Portuguese, University of Surrey (16/1/2017 - 31/7/2018)
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External examiner, University of Liverpool (1/10/2016 - 31/8/2018)
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External examiner, Modern Language Centre, King's College London (1/9/2015 - 31/8/2018)
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Portuguese language coordinator, University of Kent (1/9/2013 - 13/1/2017)
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Brazilian Lector, Birkbeck, University of London (1/9/2008 - 31/8/2012)
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External examiner, Coventry University (1/1/2011 - 31/12/2014)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Cinema in Portuguese
World cinema
Portuguese language
Language teaching
Internet stardom and fandom
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)
AI (Artificial Inteligence) & language learning/teaching
Conferences and presentations
Integrating language learning and employability: a flipped curriculum using semantic waves and digital technologies
26th Annual Conference of The Association of University Language Communities in the UK and Ireland, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 8/4/2025
Ensinar para Todos: Estrat茅gias Pr谩ticas para uma Sala de Aula Inclusiva (Teaching for All: Practical Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom)
Invited presentation, PIBID, 1/4/2025
Mastering Academic Writing: Strategies for Clarity, Publication, and Research Impact
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Writing for impact: How to make your research standout, Islamabad, Pakistan, 19/12/2024
Bridging Borders: Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching in Transnational Higher Education
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, The 7th International Conference on Internationalization of Higher Education (ICIHE) and the 20th Anniversary Celebration of International College, GDUFS, Guangzhou, China, 4/7/2024
Advancing Language Education: Harnessing Corpora and AI Texts
Invited presentation, The Language Teaching Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 3/7/2024
Tech-Enhanced Language Differentiation for Educators
Invited presentation, Annual Teachers鈥� and Advisers鈥� Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 27/6/2024
The use of new technologies for differentiation purposes
Invited presentation, The Language Teaching Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 6/7/2023
Workshop: Designing differentiated teaching materials with technology
Invited presentation, The Language Teaching Conference, Colchester, United Kingdom, 6/7/2023
Teaching linguistic variation and culture through new medias: Instagram, Youtube and memes
Questioning Language Teaching Orthodoxy in Higher Education, Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching, Leeds, United Kingdom, 28/6/2023
Reexamining Motherhood and Femininity in the Brazilian Film Central Station (1998)
Maternal Narratives on Screen, Manchester, United Kingdom, 16/6/2023
Enhancing Language Teaching with AI: Leveraging ChatGPT and Quizlet for Effective Learning Object Creation
AULC Teaching and Learning support SIG, United Kingdom, 26/5/2023
Considera莽玫es sobre a forma莽茫o de professores de l铆nguas adicionais em contexto ingl锚s: poss铆veis contribui莽玫es te贸rico-pr谩ticas para o contexto brasileiro
Invited presentation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 20/12/2022
Latin American LGBTQIA+ cinema in the 2000s
Latin American LGBTQIA+ Cinema Showcase, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8/4/2022
The intermediality of Brazilian queer cinema: A case study from the 1960s onwards
II Intermedia conference - The moving form of film: exploring intermediality as a historiographic method, Reading, United Kingdom, 7/11/2017
Framing abjection through violence in Teresa Villaverde鈥檚 films
International Symposium 鈥榃omen in Iberian Cinema鈥�, Lisbon, Portugal, 11/9/2017
Enviadecendo intimacy: resisting (gay) heteronormativity in Brazilian queer funk videos
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 8/9/2017
Human rights abuses and state violence in prison films by Hector Babenco
Film-Philosophy Conference, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 17/7/2017
D茅j脿-vu br茅silien; ou, cinema e pol铆tica ainda n茫o se misturam: O caso do filme Aquarius (2016) de Kleber Mendon莽a Filho
REBRAC International Conference: Brazil in the Spotlight, Belfast, United Kingdom, 11/11/2016
O uso de recursos online gratuitos para ajudar jovens alunos de Portugu锚s a ter sucesso e manter a motiva莽茫o
Invited presentation, MFL Teachers鈥� conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 6/6/2016
Portuguese as a heritage language
Invited presentation, Portuguese Language day seminar, London, United Kingdom, 4/5/2016
Rebuilding colonial memory through archive in the work of two Portuguese women filmmakers: Margarida Cardoso and Filipa C茅sar
Invited presentation, Portuguese Cinema Symposium, London, United Kingdom, 13/1/2016
Synchronous and asynchronous connectivity through blended learning: Language teaching in the post method era
Invited presentation, London, United Kingdom, 27/11/2015
When Language Teaching and Cultural Studies go hand in hand: A Snapshot of an Approach to Brazilian Studies at University Level
Invited presentation, International Conference: Remapping Brazilian Cultural Studies, London, United Kingdom, 25/9/2015
Synchronous and asynchronous activities in Portuguese language teaching: cinema, blogs, phones and beyond
Invited presentation, Portuguese as a Global Language: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching and Learning, Exeter, United Kingdom, 30/6/2015
Language research and Portuguese teaching practices
Invited presentation, Portuguese Studies in the UK, London, United Kingdom, 5/6/2015
Disability, sexuality and abjection: The (im)perfect horny body and subjectivity in contemporary Brazilian and Angolan cinemas
Film-Philosophy Conference: A World of Cinemas, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 3/7/2014
There come the naughty Brazukas: Gender identity and the Brazilian immigrant in Europe in the Brazilian films Foreign Land (1996) and Jean Charles (2009)
III Seminário de Estudos sobre a Imigração Brasileira na Europa, London, United Kingdom, 15/4/2014
O exame Celpe-Bras em contexto brit芒nico
Invited presentation, I Simpósio Europeu sobre o Ensino de Português como Língua de Herança, London, United Kingdom, 24/10/2013
A retextualiza莽茫o na produ莽茫o escrita de aprendizes de portugu锚s como l铆ngua adicional em contextos multil铆ngues
Congreso Internacional La Lengua Portuguesa, Salamanca, Spain, 28/5/2013
Guilherme de Almeida and Brazilian neo-noir cinema: A dama do Cine Shanghai (The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema, 1987)
Invited presentation, Brazilian Week, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1/3/2013
In-between: encouraging students鈥� interaction beyond the classroom context through VLE
Invited presentation, Enhancing flexible learning, London, United Kingdom, 18/2/2013
O processo de compreens茫o e produ莽茫o em leitura por aprendizes iniciantes de portugu锚s e de ingl锚s em ambiente digital.
° Simpósio internacional: Ensino de português como língua adicional 鈥� práticas de ensino e formação de professores, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 12/11/2012
Because they are too dirty! Abjection and the films of the contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese filmmakers Cl谩udio Assis and Jo茫o Pedro Rodrigues
The 5th Annual Film-Philosophy Conference, London, United Kingdom, 13/9/2012
The little adults: gender and child prostitution in contemporary Brazilian cinema.
Gender and Visual Representation Conference, Winchester, United Kingdom, 12/9/2012
Brazilian cinema and counter-culture movements in the 1960s: Cinema novo and Underground cinema
Invited presentation, Utrecht, Netherlands, 15/2/2012
The use of technology to facilitate inter and extra classroom interaction for learners of Portuguese as an additional foreign language
E-Learning Symposium, Southampton, United Kingdom, 26/1/2012
Public sex and the challenge to the patriarchal law: the femme fatale as a symbol of otherness in A dama do lota莽茫o (Lady on the Bus, 1978).
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) IV Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 9/9/2011
Configura莽玫es de tarefas de ensino de portugu锚s como l铆ngua estrangeira adicional - implementa莽茫o e condi莽玫es de uso de linguagem.
Congresso Brasileiro de Linguística Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26/7/2011
Pleasurable but dirty and castrating: the display of female sexual organs in Brazilian WIP (Women in Prison) Film
Cine-Excess IV Corporeal Excess: Cult Bodies, London, United Kingdom, 14/4/2010
From prison to the street, from the street to prison: transposing the prison walls in the Brazilian documentary O C谩rcere e a rua (The Prison and the Street, Liliana Sulzbach, 2005)
鈥楾ransitions鈥� - The WISPS (Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2/10/2009
A title says all: Brazilian Pornochanchada鈥檚 titles as an indication of male anxiety about female sexuality
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference III, Maynooth, Ireland, 11/9/2009
Titillating and betraying the male audience: Brazilian sexploitation film titles and covers
Framing Film 鈥� Cinema and the Visual Arts, Winchester, United Kingdom, 5/9/2009
Brazilian Women in Prison Film: a gendered reading
B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value, Melbourne, Australia, 9/4/2009
Madame Sat茫 e a performance da femme fatale: problematizando a constru莽茫o de g锚nero (2002)
Retratos do Brasil Homossexual 鈥� IV Congresso ABEH/ Encontro Hispano-Brasileiro de Miliantes Homossexuais, São Paulo, Brazil, 10/9/2008
Troubling the femme fatale gender in Brazilian film Madame Sat茫 (2002)
JISLAC Event, Bristol, United Kingdom, 14/2/2008
鈥淚sso n茫o Xica!鈥� O corpo escravo e o imagin谩rio da femme fatale no filme Xica da Silva (1976): de striptease a masoquismo
ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 11/1/2008
Socio-cultural identity: meaning of travel in Brazilian film Central Station
7th Borders and Crossings Congress, Sardinia, Italy, 9/11/2007
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Intensive Beginners Portuguese I (LA321)
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Intensive Beginners Portuguese II (LA322)
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Portuguese Conversion I (LA333)
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Portuguese Conversion II (LA334)
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Post A-Level Portuguese I (LA340)
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Post A-Level Portuguese II (LA342)
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Mastery Portuguese (LA360)
Current supervision
Publications
Journal articles (24)
Da Silva, AM., (2024). . Revista Dimens玫es Docentes. 1 (1), 86-103
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2024). . Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia. 17
Santos, SSD., Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2024). Apresenta莽茫o: "A escrita acad锚mica a partir de diferentes abordagens te贸ricas". Revista Horizontes de Linguistica Aplicada. 23 (2), 1-6
da Silva, AM., (2024). Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema. Hispanic Research Journal. 24 (4), 333-334
Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2024). . Revista Horizontes de Linguistica Aplicada. 23 (2), 1-13
Da Silva, AM., Rottava, L. and Dos Santos, SS., (2024). . ENTRETEXTOS. 24 (2), 1-11
Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2023). Sistema l贸gico-sem芒ntico de expans茫o na reescrita de textos acad锚micos: escolhas lingu铆sticas de uma estudante versus as escolhas do ChatGPT (Logical-Semantic Expansion System in the Rewriting of Academic Texts: Linguistic Choices of a Student versus the Choices of ChatGPT). Di谩logo das Letras. 12, 1-18
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2023). . Trabalhos em Ling眉铆stica Aplicada. 62 (2), 307-321
Rottava, L. and Da Silva, AM., (2020). . Organon. 35 (68), 1-21
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2019). 鈥楻eel life: Brazilian realities reflected in cinema.鈥�. The Architectural Review (1465)
Da Silva, AM., (2016). 鈥楾he little adults: child and teenage sexual exploitation in contemporary Brazilian cinema鈥�. Hispania. 99 (99), 212-222
Da Silva, AM., (2016). 鈥楢rchives, memory and colonial resistance in the work of the Portuguese filmmakers Margarida Cardoso and Filipa C茅sar鈥�. Journal of Romance Studies. 16 (2), 96-111
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2015). 鈥楤lended learning no ensino de portugu锚s l铆ngua estrangeira adicional: tarefas ass铆ncronas extra-classe鈥�. Portuguese Language Journal. 9
Da Silva, AM., (2014). 鈥楾he Portuguese queer screen: gender possibilities in Jo茫o Pedro Rodrigues鈥� cinematic production鈥�. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 6 (1), 69-78
Da Silva, AM., (2014). 鈥業鈥檓 dirty, dirty, dirty! Abje莽茫o e identidade queer em Stella Manhattan de Silviano Santiago鈥�. Caderno Seminal Digital. 21 (21), 168-199
Da Silva, AM., (2014). 鈥楲ima Barreto: uma releitura da obra do autor sob a 贸tica p贸s-colonial鈥�.. Revista de Letras da UNESP. 54 (1), 51-70
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). Language learning, identity and globalization: a comparison between learners of Brazilian Portuguese in England and learners of English and Spanish in Brazil鈥�. Acta Scientiarum : Language and Culture. 36 (2), 171-181
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). 鈥楧a tela ao papel: a retextualiza莽茫o como recurso na aquisi莽茫o da escrita em portugu锚s como l铆ngua adicional鈥�.. Revista Veredas - Revista da Associa莽茫o Internacional de Lusitanistas, 25-38
Da Silva, AM., (2014). 鈥極 ensino de portugu锚s como l铆ngua estrangeira adicional em contexto universit谩rio ingl锚s: especificidades e pr谩tica鈥�. SIPLE
Da Silva, AM., (2014). Lima Barreto: A postcolonial rereading of the author's work. Revista de Letras. 54 (1), 51-70
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2012). 鈥楢 intera莽茫o em ambiente eletr么nico no ensino de portugu锚s l铆ngua estrangeira adicional: a otimiza莽茫o da aprendizagem de iniciantes鈥�. Revista Horizontes de Lingu铆stica Aplicada. 11 (1), 159-188
Da Silva, AM., (2011). 鈥榁iewing the Angolan experience of war and peace through the filmic representation of Luanda in Maria Jo茫o Ganga鈥檚 Na cidade vazia/Hollow City (2004) and Zez茅 Gamboa鈥檚 O her贸i/The Hero (2004)鈥�. Journal of African Cinemas. 3 (2), 187-200
Da Silva, AM., (2010). 鈥楨nsino de Portugu锚s L铆ngua Estrangeira (PLE) por meio de filme: considera莽玫es sobre o 鈥楶ortf贸lio Europeu para L铆nguas (CEFLs)鈥欌��. Revista Littera. 1 (1), 121-133
Da Silva, AM., (2007). 'Sugest玫es de atividades para aulas de Portugu锚s L铆ngua Estrangeira鈥�.. Portuguese Language Journal. 2
Books (3)
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2018). Human rights, social movements, and activism in contemporary Latin American cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3319962078
Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2017). Space and subjectivity in contemporary Brazilian cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-3-319-48267-5
Da Silva, AM., (2014). The 鈥淔emme鈥� Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1-137-39920-5
Book chapters (15)
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., Exploring the Impact of Flipped Learning on Beginner-Level Portuguese Writing Skills: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective. In: Academic Writing in Lx: Teaching, Research and Beyond. Editors: Testa, M. and Figueira-Cardoso, S., . University of Warsaw. 51- 72
Da Silva, AM., (2018). 鈥業ntersectionality as a human rights issue in contemporary Latin American Queer Cinema鈥�. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Editors: Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., . Palgrave Macmillan. 225- 248. 978-3-319-96208-5
Da Silva, AM., (2018). 鈥楬uman rights abuses and State violence in prison films by Hector Babenco鈥�.. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Editors: Da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., . Palgrave Macmillan. 71- 93. 978-3-319-96208-5
Cunha, M. and da Silva, AM., (2018). Introduction. In: Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Springer International Publishing. 1- 19. 9783319962078
Da Silva, AM., (2017). 鈥楶贸s-modernidade e novas tecnologias: o ensino-aprendizado de portugu锚s l铆ngua adicional na era do p贸s m茅todo鈥�. In: Portugu锚s para falantes de outras l铆nguas:ensino-aprendizagem, tecnologias e letramentos. Editors: De S谩, RL. and Augusto, RC., . Pontes Editores. 91- 124. 9788571137158
da Silva, AM. and Cunha, M., (2017). Introduction. In: Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema. Springer International Publishing. 1- 19. 9783319482668
Da Silva, AM., (2016). 鈥楳emory and gender in the Portuguese speaking Africa鈥檚 postcolonial cinematic production鈥�. In: New approaches to Lusophone culture. Editors: Pinazza, N., . Cambria Press. 79- 110. 9781604979152
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2015). 鈥楪锚neros e registros em contexto de comunica莽茫o mediada eletronicamente: uma abordagem Sist锚mico-Funcional da intera莽茫o eletr么nica de aprendizes de Portugu锚s L铆ngua Adicional鈥�. In: Reflex玫es em Lingu铆stica Aplicada: a forma莽茫o de professores de l铆nguas e a pr谩tica em sala de aula - caminhos e expectativas. Editors: Rottava, L. and et al., . Pontes Editores. 199- 225. 978-857113-613-7
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2014). 鈥楢 retextualiza莽茫o na produ莽茫o escrita de aprendizes de portugu锚s como l铆ngua estrangeira adicional em contextos multil铆ngues鈥�. In: La lengua portuguesa - vol II Estudios Ling煤铆sticos. Editors: De Dios, AM., . Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca y los autores. 711- 717. 978-84-9012-445-1
Da Silva, AM., (2013). Gender in Brazilian cinema: Introduction. In: Directory of World Cinema: Brazil. Editors: Pinazza, N. and Bayman, L., . Intellect. 82- 102. 9781783200092
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2013). Influ锚ncia interlingu铆stica no processo de escrita em portugu锚s LE-adicional鈥�. In: Portugu锚s como l铆ngua (inter)nacional: faces e interfaces.. Editors: Da Silva, KA. and Dos Santos, DT., . Pontes Editores. 275- 297. 978-85-7113-483-6
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2013). 鈥業ntera莽茫o em ambiente virtual no ensino de portugu锚s como l铆ngua estrangeira adicional鈥�. In: Comunica莽茫o electr贸nica na aula de Portugu锚s L铆ngua Estrangeira. Editors: Melo, S. and S谩, MHA., . Edi莽玫es Lidel. 140- 155. 978-972-757-708-8
Da Silva, AM., (2012). 鈥楢 experi锚ncia angolana de guerra e paz: um olhar por meio da representa莽茫o f铆lmica de Luanda em Na cidade vazia (2004) de Maria Jo茫o Ganga, e em O her贸i (2004), de Zez茅 Gamboa鈥�.. In: Filmes da 脕frica e da di谩spora. Editors: Meleiros, A. and Bamba, M., . EDUFBA. 19- 42. 978-85-232-0999-5
Da Silva, AM. and Rottava, L., (2011). 鈥楤eliefs about learning Portuguese as a foreign language 鈥� multilingual context鈥�.. In: Cren莽as, discursos & linguagem II. Editors: Da Silva, KA., . Pontes Editores. 153- 175
Da Silva, AM., (2009). 鈥楾roubling the femme fatale gender in the Brazilian film Madame Sat茫 (2002)鈥�. In: Latin American issues and challenges. Editors: Naciamento, L. and Sousa, G., . Nova Publishers. 81- 95. 978-1-60692-349-8
Grants and funding
2023
Developing employability skills through language learning: a pilot project with adult learners in the Colchester area
British Academy
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