ANDREA VALENTE

 

 

Whitby, Ontario

 

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

           

·         Reviewed extensive literature and wrote papers for international congresses

·         Translated and proofread  Internet sites as well as academic papers

·         More than 5 years of experience using Microsoft Word and Power Point

·         Superb English and Portuguese oral and written skills

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics                                                                                                                                               2001

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

B.A. and B. Ed. (Major: English)                                                                                                                                                         1991

State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Web Translator (freelance)                                                                                                                                                2003 - present

- Translated and edited material for a web site in the Internet

 

English Teacher (ESL and High School Teacher)                                                                                                                2003 -2004

Netskills College, North York, Ontario

- Prepared matured students for TOEFL exam

- Taught English (college/university preparation) to culturally diverse students

- Designed exams and evaluated students’ written and spoken performance

 

ESL Tutor

Toronto Catholic School Board                                                                                                                                                            2003

- Assisted seniors with literacy skills at the Portuguese Community

- Designed communicative activities for Newcomers

 

Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                                               2001

- Worked with Prof. Michael Wiseman (Bavarian Institute, Germany) and Prof. Zyngier (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Responsibilities: organized and classified data on the study of effect of music on students’ creative writing; managed database by running statistical analysis using SPSS; wrote a paper for the IGEL, Pecs, Hungary, 2002.

 

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                  1999 - 2000

- Worked with Prof. Achim Barsch (University of Kassel, Germany ) and Prof. Zyngier (University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

- Responsibilities: translated, reviewed and adapted questionnaire on the study of empirical study of literature to Brazilian undergraduates; analyzed quantitative and qualitative data; presented research results at the IGEL, University of Toronto, 2000.

 

 

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES

                                                                                                                              

Valente, A.C (2003) Epistemic parenthetical use of “I think” and its pragmatic dimensions. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Niagara Linguistic Society, University of Toronto, Canada

 

Valente, A.C (2003) An interactional sociolinguistic study of code-switching in e-mails exchanged among Brazilian speakers: cool, ne? Paper accepted at the 8th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Toronto, Canada.

 

Valente, A.C (2001) What s behind a teacher’s autobiographical narrative? Paper presented at the 28th International Systemic Functional Congress, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.                                                      

 

Valente, A.C. (2001) Discourse signals exchanged in supervision activities: promoting or inhibiting the reflective thinking? Paper presented at The Society for Text and Discourse – 11th Annual Meeting. Santa Barbara University, California, US.

 

Valente, A.C. (2001) Overlapping talk: an ice-breaker or a rapport-breaker in supervision sessions? Paper presented at the International Association of Dialogue Analysis (IADA), University of Goteborg, Sweden.

 

Valente, A.C (2001) Contextualized Stylistic Cues: the veiled language of supervision activities. Paper presented at the 21st Poetics and Linguistic Association (PALA), University of Budapest, Hungary.

 

Valente, A.C (2000) Reading to Mom a literary reading experience inside a matriarchal family. Paper presented at the 7th International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL), University of  Toronto, Canada.

 

 

BOOK REVIEW AND PUBLICATIONS

 

Non-Western perspectives on human communication: implications for theory and practice by Min Sun Kim (2002). In.: Discourse & Society, 2005 (forthcoming)

 

Valente, Andrea Claudia (2002) “Pedagogical reading practice: a student-teachers’ attitude”. In.: Zyngier, et al. Teorias, Práticas e Interdisciplinaridade. Faculty of Letters, UFRJ.

 

Valente, Andrea Claudia (2001). “Keeping Family Ties: An empirical view of reading”.

In.: Zyngier, et al. Conhecimento e Imaginação: coletânea dos trabalhos do  I ECEL. Faculty of Letters, UFRJ.

 

 

COMMUNITY WORK

 

Communication Facilitator                                                                                                                                                          currently

York-Durham Aphasia Centre, Stouffville, Ontario

- Assisted clients with aphasia to improve their communication abilities

 

 

HOBBIES

 

- Reading, hiking with the family, doing yoga and exercises, listening to world music and travelling