I was born and raised in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Since I was a little girl I had a passion for foreign languages. I remember taking classes in Italian, French and English at the elementary school. When I moved to the United States I had the opportunity to teach Portuguese to professionals traveling on business to Brazil. That's when I found my calling for teaching foreign languages. 

In 2011, I became a Portuguese instructor for one of the most prestigious international business schools in the world - Thunderbird School of Global Management. I realized then that my degrees in Business Administration and Information Technology added to my cultural and language background weren't enough to make me a great foreign language teacher. I decided to go back to school and get a degree in linguistics. 

I am an aspiring professor and Master’s candidate in Spanish Linguistics at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. 

As a Master’s candidate in Linguistics at ASU, my research interests include the use of computer assisted language learning in the classroom. I am currently researching the impact of video conferencing in language learning and whether the process involved in the acquisition of a second language in such setting is significantly different from the traditional face to face classroom setting.

 

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe