Contact Information
Biography
Eduardo Viana da Silva received his Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Literature with an emphasis in Applied Linguistics from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He holds an interdisciplinary degree in teaching “Certificate in College and University Teaching” from UCSB, a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) graduate certificate from Brigham Young University (BYU) and an M.A. in Luso-Brazilian literature, also from BYU. Eduardo is also certified by ACTFL to conduct Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) for Portuguese.
Before coming to University of Washington in 2015, Eduardo taught language courses, Luso-Brazilian literature, and topics on Brazilian culture at UCSB, BYU, University of Utah, and the Salt Lake Community College. He also taught English as a Second Language in a private school (ILAC) in Vancouver, Canada, between 2007 and 2010. His main areas of interest are Environmental Arts, Critical Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, Luso-Brazilian literature and culture, curriculum development, and Global Citizenship.
Since a recent study abroad program to Brazil in 2023 to the Pantanal area, Eduardo started working on issues related to Environmental Activism and Arts with particular attention to the Amazon Rainforest and Pantanal areas in Latin America.
Eduardo has an ongoing project of a Portuguese language textbook - Bate-Papo - An Introduction to Portuguese, an Open Educational Resource (OER) available online. This book has been supported through a UW Libraries Award, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Language Leaning Center, and the Center for Global Studies at the UW. This e-text is available at the link: https://uw.pressbooks.pub/batepapo/. User can copy, adapt, and/or modify the text to their needs.
Eduardo received the 2020 Language Teacher of the Year Award for the State of Washington from the Washington Association for Language Teaching, WAFLT, in recognition for his work with Portuguese and other less commonly taught languages.
For an updated list of Eduardo Viana da Silva's publications, visit the ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3651-3524
Research
Selected Research
- Silva, Gláucia; Soares, Cristiane; and Eduardo Viana da Silva. “Teaching practices of inclusive language in Portuguese.” Padilla et. al. Rethinking Representations, Inclusion and Social Justice in World Language Teaching: Insights for research and Pedagogy. Routledge, 2024. pp. 51-70.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. “A game-changer: Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the teaching of Portuguese” Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL): Linguistic and Pedagogical Approaches. Lexington Books, 2023.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo and Rosa Machado Torrico. "Portuguese as an Additional Language and Cybersecurity – A pilot course” Portuguese Language Journal. vol.16, 2022.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo and Ana Cristina B. Salomão. “Taking action in a virtual exchange with Brazilian and U.S. students” Virtual Exchange as a way to support SLA: Studies on language learning through online interaction. De Gruyter, Trends in Applied Linguistics Series, 2022.
- Silva, Kleber and Eduardo Viana da Silva (eds.) Conexões: O ensino de português nos Estados Unidos. Editora Mercado de Letras, 2022. 372 pp
- Landolfi, Fernanda, Cibelle da Silva Santiago, Eduardo Viana da Silva, and Janaynna de Moura Ferraz (eds.) As transformações no mundo do trabalho. SCRIBES, Brazilian Journal of Management and Secretarial Studies, vol. 2, no 1, 2021.
- Silva, Kleber and Eduardo Viana da Silva (eds.) Cidadania Global em aulas de Português como Língua Adicional. Revista Linguagem & Ensino, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021.
- Myer, Justine and Eduardo Viana da Silva. “Promoting attitudes of openness: Intercultural Communicative Competence in a Brazilian-American university exchange” Portuguese Language Journal. vol.14, 2020. pp. 28-47.
- Yaden, Bridget and Eduardo Viana da Silva. “O papel da proficiência em programas de Português como Língua Estrangeira” Hispania, vol.103, no. 4, 2020. pp. 461-74.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. “Business Portuguese in the age of digital instruction” LSP Vectors: Strengthening Interdisciplinary Connections. Global Business Language Journal, vol. 20, 2020, pp. 41-52.
- Salomão, A. C. B., & Viana da Silva, E. (2020). The application of the Global Competence Matrix in a virtual exchange program with US and Brazilian students. Journal of Virtual Exchange, 3 (SI-IVEC2019), 1-12.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo and Carlos Pio. “Open and inclusionary narratives in the design of a Portuguese e-textbook.” New Case Studies of Openness in the Language Classroom. Research-Publishing.Net, vol. 2, 2019.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. "Uma metodologia alternativa para cursos de português na área de CTEM (Ciência, Tecnologia, Engenharia e Matemática) para falantes de espanhol e de português.” Portuguese Language Journal. vol.12, 2018, pp. 40-70
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo; Svetlana Abramova; Michele Aoki; and Bridget Yaden. “Getting to Advanced: Challenging Heritage Language Learners to Step Outside Their Comfort Zone.” The Language Educator. (vol. 8, n. 3). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: New York, March 2018.
- Kinzer, Kent and Eduardo Viana da Silva. “Portuguese on the sound” Language Magazine, The Journal of Communication and Education, vol. 15, no. 11, 2016.
- Hough-Snee, Dexter and Eduardo V. da Silva, (Editors). Estudios de sátira hispanoamericana colonial & Estudos da sátira do Brasil-Colonia. "De estranhos casos que jamais pintaram" a "despoblados extensos" Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2015. 310 pp.
- Cairus, José Tufy. “The Malê Rebellion as Debated by Brazil’s Press, 1835-1838” (trans. Eduardo Viana da Silva), The Middle East and Brazil, Perspectives on the New Global South. Paul Amar (ed.), Indiana University P., 2014.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. “Um zoológico de significados, A função dos animais em alguns textos de Machado de Assis.” Machado em linha, vol. 9, 2012.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. “Um zoológico de significados, A função dos animais em alguns textos de Machado de Assis.” Machado em linha, vol. 9, 2012.
- Viana da Silva, Eduardo. Bate-Papo: An Introduction to Portuguese. Press Books UW Libraries: Seatlle, WA.