Autor: Patrícia Falasca

Alessandra Del Ré is a professor at the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Classics of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Araraquara, Brazil, and has worked as visiting professor at the Université de Montpellier 3 (UM3), France. She holds a Master”s and a Ph D in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo (USP), and completed part of her Ph D in France, at the Université René Descartes (Sorbonne/Paris V). She has also developed a post-doctoral research at Université Paris X/Mo Dy Co/COLAJE. She has experience in linguistics, with an emphasis on language acquisition, working mainly on themes involving children”s humor and bilingualism, within a Bakhtinian-based dialogic-discursive perspective. Patrícia Falasca is a linguist with a Master”s and a Ph D from the Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. She conducted part of her Ph D at the University of Leipzig, in Germany, and her research interests involve the acquisition/learning of a second language byadults and the identity processes that arise from this encounter with a new language at a later stage in life. More recently, she has also focused her research on the pedagogical contributions of argumentative activities in the classroom environment to help learners develop a sense of self in the language they are acquiring/learning. Patrícia has worked at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) as a German language teacher at the institution”s Modern Languages Department and also holds an appointment at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany, as a research associate and German language teacher. Juliane Noack Napoles is a professor of educational science in social work at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg , Germany. She studied social pedagogy and pedagogy in Siegen, Germany, and economics in Växjö, Sweden. In 2005 she finished her Ph D at the University of Siegen and between 2005 and 2008 she hada postdoc stay at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. From 2008 to 2020 she was a lecturer and academic assistant at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her main research focuses include eudaimogenesis, identity research, vulnerability research and aesthetic education.