RESEARCH GROUPS IN LITERATURE/LINGUISTICS, UPDATED, CERTIFIED BY CNPq AND LED BY FACULTY MEMBERS
FELICE – Teacher Education and Language Teaching for Children
Leaders: Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli and Glaís Sales Cordeiro
Leader: Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão
Lexical Treasure of the Galician and Portuguese Heritage: Brazil
Leaders: Silvia Figueiredo Brandão and Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera
VALE: Linguistic Variation in School
Leader: Joyce Elaine de Almeida Baronas
FELIP – Portuguese Language Teacher Education and Teaching
Leader: Sheila Oliveira Lima
GPAD – Research Group in Discourse Analysis
Leader: Rosemeire Baltazar Passos
Historical Lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese – LHisPB
Leaders: Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera and Fabiane Cristina Altino
Our faculty members also participate in groups led by or in partnership with faculty from other institutions:
GESTELD – Research Group in Education, Sexuality, Technologies, Languages and Discourses (UNESP), with the participation of faculty member Rosemeire Baltazar Passos and faculty from other institutions.
ILFBRA – Brazilian Network for English as a Lingua Franca Studies, led by professors Domingos Sávio Siqueira (UFBA) and Telma Nunes Gimenez (UEL). The group brings together researchers from various Brazilian universities interested in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), aiming to develop joint research projects, organize events, publish scientific papers, and share results of actions focused on teacher education, language teaching policies, and the production of teaching materials.
Do you know the difference between Research Line, Research Project, and Research Group?
A research line represents unifying themes of scientific studies based on an investigative tradition. It gives rise to projects whose results are thematically aligned.
A research project is a defined investigation with a start and end date, based on specific objectives, aiming to produce results that show cause-effect relationships or reveal new facts.
A research group is a team of researchers, students, and technical staff organized around the execution of research lines, following a hierarchical structure based on experience and technical-scientific competence. This group shares facilities and physical infrastructure. As such, research lines are subordinate to the group, not the other way around.
(Adapted from the CNPq Directory of Research Groups in Brazil. Accessed on: Mar. 26, 2025)