Ana Cecília Cossi Bizon

English Translation:Graduated in Languages (1989), with a master's degree (1994) and a doctorate (2013) in Applied Linguistics from the State University of Campinas. She completed her post-doctorate (2022-2023) through the Postdoctoral Researcher Program (PPPD) of the "Elza Berquó" Population Studies Center at Unicamp (Research Title: "Subsidies for policies on teaching Portuguese as an Additional Language and support for migrant children and their families in Child Education Centers and Basic Education schools"). In 2023, she was a Visiting Professor at the National University of Timor Lorosa'e in Timor-Leste. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at Unicamp, working in undergraduate programs, especially in the Bachelor's degree in Portuguese as a Second Language/Foreign Language/Additional Language, and in the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (PPG-LA). At the institution, she was the General Coordinator of the Language Teaching Center of the Languages without Borders Program and served as a member of the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair for the promotion of refugee rights (from 2017 to 2021). Additionally, she served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Linguistics/DLA-IEL (2020-2023), was the Vice-Coordinator of Research at IEL (2020-2022), and Pedagogical Coordinator of the Language Center (CEL) at Unicamp for two terms (2021 to 2022; 2023 to 2024). She is the leader of the IndisciPLAr research group - Portuguese as an Additional Language from an interdisciplinary perspective (Unicamp/CNPq) and a researcher at the Migration Observatory in São Paulo. She is the executor of agreements between IEL and the Faculty of Letters of the National University of Timor Lorosae in Timor-Leste, and with the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal, and is a representative member of Unicamp at the PELSE Center (Disciplinary Center for Teaching Spanish and Portuguese as L2/L) of the Montevideo Group of Universities Association (AUGM). Her main research interests are: training of teachers of Portuguese as an Additional Language (PLA), language policies, public policies, internationalization, teaching of PLA to minoritized groups, identities, migrations and refuge, territorializations, democracy, and human rights. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)