Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Anthropology of Language, and Indigenous Languages and Culture. She is a professor of the Department of Modern Languages at the Federal University of São Carlos (Universidade Federal de São Carlos/ UFSCar). She has been developing research work in the area of Applied Linguistics concerning writing, literacy and translation for the last ten years. She coordinates two large projects involving undergraduate and post-graduate students: "Translation and New Literacies? and "Translation, Poetics and cultural artefacts in literacy practices in kindergarten? (concerning indigenous language, culture and literature), supported by FAPESP and CNPq. She also coordinates the Research Group ?Languages in Translation? - LEETRA/CNPq. She has coordinated at UFSCar and some estate schools a series of workshops aiming at propitiating a better understanding of literacy, poetry and digital artifacts for learning purposes. She has also collaborated with indigenous students and writers to promoting an understanding of indigenous cultures and languages with the emphasis on fighting prejudice and stereotypes. She has published books, articles and chapters with the focus on Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. She is the author of the app "The chase of Bengal tiger and other animals in the risk of extinction" meant to be used by children in the Kindergarten and first year of Elementary School. She has been developing the app "Jeriguigui and the jaguar" (2019/07879-4). She is a CNPQ PQ-2 researcher. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project belongs to the research lines "Translation and poetic studies" and "Digital literacy and cultural artefacts" of the Research Group LEETRA (CNPq). I aim to propose a new phase as an unfolding to FAPESP Research Projects 2016/17059-6 and 2019/08789-), when I focused on the use of an app at the first grades of Elementary School and Kindergarten respectively. At the present phase…
This project belongs to the research lines "Translation and poetic studies" and "Digital literacy and cultural artifacts" of the Research Group LEETRA (CNPq). I aim to propose a different phase as an unfolding to FAPESP Research Project FAPESP 2016/17059-6, when I focused on the use of an app at the first grades of Elementary School. At the present phase, the main objective implies the co…
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This research project belongs to the research line "Digital literacy" of the Research Group "Languages, ethnicities, and styles in transition" - LEETRA (CNPq). It is based on studies on situated literacy (Street, 1993; Hamilton, Barton, Ivanic, 1993; Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Kleiman, 1995)and on new technologies (Gee, 2004, 2010; Latour, 2005; Buzato, 2009). Examples of genres de…
This project pertains to the research line "Literacy and intercultural communication" of the Research Group LEETRA (CNPq). It is based on studies on situated literacy(Street, 1993; Hamilton, Barton, Ivanic, 1993; Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Kleiman, 1995)and on new technologies (Gee, 2004, 2010; Buzato, 2009). Examples of genres derived from new technologies are e-mail, tweet, on-li…
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This Research Project aimed to be developed at King's College, London, belongs to the research lines "Translation Studies" and "Literacy and intercultural communication" of the Research Group LEETRA "Languages, ethnicities and styles in transition" (CNPq). I intend, on one hand, to carry on research I have been developing for the last two years during the projects "The construction of bil…
Information and Communication Technologies have brought new instruments for pedagogical mediation and are responsible for reestablishing the nature and functions of didactic materials in such a modality (Nonato&Sales, 2007). The objectives of the research stage at "Facultad de Educación" of the "Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia" (UNED), under the supervision of Marta Ruiz Cor…
This project BEPE belongs to the Research Group LEETRA (CNPq) led by Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins. It is part of the project "Appropriating new literacies and digital literacy among students of Elementary School" (Fapesp 2011/14355-0). The objectives of a stage in the University of Manitoba are to promote the contact of the researcher with contemporary bibliography on digital literacy, to …
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