MEET ASOCOPI'S 56th CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS 

Dr. Ana Paula Duboc

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil   

Ana Paula Duboc is professor of English Language Teaching Methodology at the School of Education from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2016, she co-authored the decolonial-oriented and English curricular guidelines within the Municipal Secretariat of Education in Sao Paulo. Her research interests comprise language and literacy education, ELF studies, educational policies, language teacher education, decoloniality. She coordinates the ELCo – Grupo de Estudos Educação, Linguagem e Colonialidade (Research Group on Education, Language, and Coloniality).   

Dr. Paula Golombek 

University of Florida

Dr. Paula Golombek is Clinical Professor in the  Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida, where she developed the  Undergraduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language Program. One  of her primary responsibilities in the program is to mentor novice teachers in  the practicum—the context in which she tries to apply and research Vygotskian  Sociocultural Theory to language teacher development in practice. Her research  interests include language teacher narrative inquiry as professional  development, teacher learning in second language teacher education, including  the functional role of teacher emotions, and sociocultural research and  perspective on language teacher professional development. 

Andréa Machado de Aldeida Mattos  

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Andréa Machado De Almeida Mattos holds a PhD in Linguistic Studies from the University of São Paulo. She is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Linguistics, and  a researcher at NECLLE – Núcleo de Estudos Críticos sobre Linguagens, Letramentos e Educação (Centre for Critical Studies on Languages, Literacies and Education), at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, a registered group at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She is also a Productivity Researcher at CNPq (Grant n. 308243/2020-0). ORCID: org/0000-0003-3190-7329.