Research
Publications
Journal Articles
Forthcoming
Costa-Silva, J., Zhang, S.,Lee-Schoenfeld, V. The Effects of Bilingual Proficiency on the Acceptability of Motion Encoding Strategies. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Under review
Costa-Silva, J., Giddens, C., Kudyba, S., What Lies on the Web: Four Widespread Myths about Second Language Acquisition.
2024
Costa-Silva, J., Lee-Schoenfeld, V. Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method. Language, 100 (3), e99-e123. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a937195
Costa-Silva, J. Neither Portugal nor Brazil: an investigation of the decolonial efforts in Elementary Portuguese curricula within U.S. higher education institutions. Hispania, 107(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2024.a921462
Costa-Silva, J. Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited: Evidence for Sensitivity Effects. UGA Working Papers in Linguistics.
2018
Costa Silva, J. Uma proposta interdisciplinar para o ensino de inglês: a história dos multi-word verbs. In Revista de Letra em Letra, 5, 74-82.
Book chapters
2022
Costa Silva, J., Fischer, D. Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice. In Língua(gem) e justiça social: saberes, práticas e paradigmas, vol 2, 40-53.
2021
Costa Silva, J., Saccomani, J. A revista de um programa de português como ferramenta didática: uma alternativa translíngue e multicultural. In Microgeopolítica da língua portuguesa: ações, desafios e perspectivas, 187-198.
Edited Volumes
2024
Costa-Silva, J., Wolfman, M. UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, 7. The Linguistics Society at UGA. University of Georgia.
2023
Costa-Silva, J., Wolfman, M. UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, 6. The Linguistics Society at UGA. University of Georgia.
*For a complete list of publications including non-peer-reviewed, magazine and creative writing, see my CV.
Presentations
invited talks
2024
Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting.
2023
A Matter of Space: The Acquisition of Motion Lexicalization Patterns by English and Portuguese Learners. Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia.
2022
(Re)Acting Your Age: Understanding Second Language Pragmatics. Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
(Re)Acting Your Age: Stages of Interlanguage Pragmatics. Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Conferences
2024
The Acquisition of Motion Lexicalization Patterns by English-Portuguese Late Bilinguals. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting
Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method (with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld), The Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia.
Neither Portugal nor Brazil: an investigation of the decolonial efforts in instructional materials adopted in early Portuguese courses at U.S. universities. Conference on the Americas, University of Georgia.
Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method (with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld). Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, University of Georgia.
A Link Between Languages: Manner And Path Elaboration by Highly Proficient L2 English Learners (with Britton Hare). Spring Student Research Symposium, University of South Carolina.
2023
Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method (with Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld). Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics – LSA Summer Institute, University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Driving People and Flying Places: The Development of Motion Lexicalization Patterns in English-Portuguese Bilinguals. Spring Student Research Symposium, University of South Carolina.
A Matter of Space: The Acquisition of Motion Encoding by English-Portuguese Bilinguals Across Proficiency Levels. 90th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 90), University of Mississippi.
Multiple Ways to Cross a Bridge: The Acquisition of Manner–Path Encoding by Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilinguals. 17th Annual Kaleidoscope Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2022
Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice. 89th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXXXIX), Louisiana State University.
Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice. JoLLE Winter Conference, University of Georgia.
2021
Willingness to Communicate in Undergraduate Foreign Language Classrooms. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2021 Conference.
2018
The Role of the Speaker in the Post-Method Era. BRAZ-TESOL English Teachers National Conference, Brazil.
2017
Four Games To Promote Conversation. Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant International Conference, Washington, D.C.
2016
Work Hard, Play Hard: Making preparation for Cambridge Exams fun!. 11th ABCI Conference, Brazil.
COLLOQUIA
2022
Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited. Romance Languages Spring Colloquium, University of Georgia.
Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited: A Case for Sensitivity Effects. Linguistics Spring Colloquium, University of Georgia.
poster presentations
2024
Becoming Linguists: An Experiential-Learning Approach to the Study of Language. Spring Teaching Symposium, University of Georgia.
2023
(Syntactically) Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method. Spring Teaching Symposium, University of Georgia.
2018
Gifted and talented adults’ adjustment to society after special education. XI International Conference of Gifted Children’s Educators, Centro para o Desenvolvimento do Potencial e Talento, Brazil.