MEET ASOCOPI'S 54th CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS (Alphabetically)

Taisa Pinetti Passoni

Federal University of Technology(Brazil)

Taisa Pinetti Passoni  is a professor in the Department of Languages  at the Federal University of Technology – Parana State (UTFPR), Brazil. She  holds a PhD in Language Studies (State University of Londrina - UEL) and  teaches in the Languages course at undergraduate and graduate (MA) levels. She  was the vice-president of the English language and literature teachers  Association of Paraná State (APLIEPAR), term 2016-2018 and currently is a counselor  of the board. Her research interests include English language teachers’  education, language policy and the internationalization of higher education in the Brazilian context.   

.

 

Mario López-Gopar

Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca(Mexico)

Mario López-Gopar (Ph. D., OISE/University of Toronto) is  professor at Universidad Autónoma Benito  Juárez de Oaxaca. Mario’s main research interest is intercultural and  multilingual education of Indigenous peoples in Mexico. He has received over 15  academic awards. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded both the 2009 AERA second  language research dissertation award and the 2009 OISE Outstanding Thesis of  the year award. He has published  numerous articles and book chapters in Mexico, USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil  and Europe. His latest books are Decolonizing  Primary English Language Teaching  (Multilingual Matters, 2016) and International  Perspectives on Critical Pedagogies in ELT (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).   

Doctor Gabriel Díaz Maggioli 

Catholic University in Uruguay

Díaz Maggioli is a  teacher who applies the lessons learned in the classroom to his roles  as a teacher educator, consultant, researcher and author.  He holds a Doctorate and a Master’s  in Education from the University of Bath in the UK. He has over 30  years' experience supporting the professional development of educators in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He iscurrently the  Director of Ludus, the Center for the Development of the  Scholarship of Teaching  and Learning at the Catholic University in Uruguay.  

 

. 

Marilyn Martin-Jones  

University of Birmingham in UK

^{Marilyn Martin-Jones is Emeritus Professor and  former Director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism. She has  been involved in research on bilingualism and multilingualism in different  regions of Britain  for thirty years. She has undertaken three broad types of research: (1.)  research on the use of multilingual resources in face-to-face interaction; (2.)  research on multilingual literacy and the uses of texts in bilingual and  multilingual settings; (3.) ethnographic research related to the processes  involved in the translation of language policies into classroom practice.}  

  ^{Her research has been primarily sociolinguistic  and ethnographic in nature and has been based in different research sites: in  urban and rural settings, in community contexts as well as in schools, colleges  and classrooms. She has a particular interest in multilingualism and gender and  in the ways in which language and literacy practices contribute to the  construction of identities in local life worlds, in institutional settings and  in trans-local contexts.    She was co-editor (with Alexandra Jaffe) of the   international journal Linguistics and Education, from 2004 – 2007 and she is  also editor of a book series (with Joan Pujolar) Critical Studies in  Multilingualism (Routledge)}