Portuguese Lecturer
Portuguese Basic Language Program
Education
- Ph.D (2002) Linguistics: Cross-cultural media discourse analysis
University of São Paulo, Brazil - M.A (1994) Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition
University of São Paulo, Brazil - B.A (1986) Modern Languages: Portuguese and French
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Contact information
4127 FLB
(217) 333-2176
atwill@uiuc.edu
Areas of Specialization
- Second language acquisition
- Discourse analysis
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Language teaching
- Media technology in the classroom
- Tandem (autonomous language learning in a web-based environment)