Academic life
PhD candidate in Translation Studies at the Federal University of Ceará (POET-UFC) with a CAPES scholarship, holding a master's from the same program and teaching degrees in Portuguese/English (UFC) and Spanish (Estácio), and currently studying Computing Education (UNILAB). I coordinate the Ceará State Language Center in Baturité, train English teachers in Pacoti, and work as a translator, audio describer and dubbing translator.
My research connects Applied Linguistics, Educational Technology and Accessible Audiovisual Translation: I study audio description as the core of educational games and, since 2021, I have led the project Audio description for teaching purposes. My interests include TESOL/TEFL, audiovisual translation (audio description, subtitling, dubbing), active learning, cooperative learning, gamification and formative assessment.
2024 – ongoing
PhD
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) — POET · Fortaleza, Brazil
Dissertation: Audio description in Spanish learning with the ¡ADESCUBRIR! platform
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Patrícia Araújo Vieira. CAPES scholarship holder.
Keywords: accessible audiovisual translation, audio description, technology and learning, Spanish teaching.
2024 – ongoing
Bachelor’s degree
Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (UNILAB) · Redenção, Brazil
2024 – 2026
Specialization
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) · Natal, Brazil
380 h. Final paper: A teaching sequence proposal using didactic audio description as a translation tool in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Advisor: Francisco Lindenilson Lopes.
2024
Short course
University College London (UCL) · United Kingdom
26 h.
2024
Certification
British Council · United Kingdom
20 h.
2023
Short course
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) · United States (online)
64 h.
2021 – 2024
Master’s degree
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) — POET · Fortaleza, Brazil
Thesis: The use of audio description as a tool for teaching English in public schools (2024).
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Patrícia Araújo Vieira. Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Rafael Ferreira da Silva.
Keywords: cooperative learning, audio description, English teaching, audiovisual translation, teaching materials.
2020 – 2021
Specialization
Centro Universitário Leonardo da Vinci (UNIASSELVI) · Brazil
380 h.
2020
Exchange program
Syracuse University · United States
100 h — program linked to the Fulbright Distinguished Award for International Teachers.
2019
Exchange program
University of Kansas (KU) · United States
180 h.
2016 – 2017
Specialization
Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA) · Brazil
480 h. Monograph: An analysis of English textbooks from a functional perspective.
2014 – 2023
Bachelor’s degree
Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA) · Brazil
2006 – 2013
Bachelor’s degree
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) · Fortaleza, Brazil
Teaching assistant in Portuguese Syntax in 2010, supervised by Prof. Dr. Mônica Magalhães.
2023 – present
Prefeitura Municipal de Pacoti · Pacoti, Ceará, Brazil
Pedagogical advising and training of English teachers to launch the Pacoti Language Center.
2022 – present
Centro Cearense de Idiomas (CCI) — SEDUC-CE · Baturité, Ceará, Brazil
Public servant, 40 h/week. Pedagogical coordination of a public language center, teacher training and exchange/internationalization projects.
2021 – present
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) · Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Master's (2021–2024) and PhD (since 2024, CAPES scholarship) at POET-UFC. Member of the LEAD and GETRA research groups.
2019 – 2021
Secretaria da Educação do Estado do Ceará (SEDUC) · Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Scholarship holder in the national curriculum (BNCC) implementation program; writer of the English component and the Languages area of Ceará's reference curriculum (DCRC) for upper secondary school.
2018 – 2021
EEEP Maria Giselda Teixeira · Ceará, Brazil
Public servant, full-time. Led the teaching project Curta a Língua (cooperative and playful learning).
2014 – 2018
EEFM Menezes Pimentel · Ceará, Brazil
Public servant, 40 h/week (also from 2008 to 2010).
2014 – 2017
Prefeitura Municipal de General Sampaio · General Sampaio, Ceará, Brazil
Spanish course, lesson planning, communicative teaching and playful activities with the municipality's Spanish teachers.
2014 – 2016
On Demand Languages School · Ceará, Brazil
Academic coordination of a language school.
2013
Prefeitura Municipal de Pacoti · Pacoti, Ceará, Brazil
Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation updates for teachers, an English reading project and teaching through playful activities.
2010 – 2013
Douce France · Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
2008 – 2011
Colégio Espaço Aberto, HILPRO Idiomas e EEFM Zélia de Matos Brito · Ceará, Brazil
Dubbing translation of a Netflix production.
Software developed in 2025.
Audio description at the heart of the educational game AD Venture Play and the ¡ADESCUBRIR! platform: impact on language learning.
Master's thesis (POET-UFC, 2024) on teaching sequences using audio description in public-school English classes.
Research project (since 2021) investigating audio description as a teaching tool for foreign languages, especially English.
Book on cooperative learning structures for English as a Foreign Language classes.
Writing the English component and the Languages area of Ceará's upper-secondary reference curriculum (ProBNCC).
Teaching project (2018–2020) at EEEP Maria Giselda Teixeira: English through cooperative learning, play and cultural exchange.
No projects match these filters.
Publications, talks, translations, supervisions and other work recorded in my CV.
Tra&Co Group (Ed.). Translation, Interpreting, Cognition: The Way out of the Box (review)
PARENTE, H.; SILVA, J. R. R. Cadernos de Tradução, v. 42, pp. 1-16, 2022.
Cooperative Learning Structures for Teaching English as a Foreign Language
SILVA, J. R. R. 1st ed., 2020.
The Global Classroom Project
SILVA, J. R. R.; KAE, T. TEMPUS, Finland, pp. 14-15, Sep 2, 2025.
Cooperative learning in basic education classrooms: theory and practice
SILVA, J. R. R.; RODRIGUES, F. M. C. In: 19th Congress on the History of Education in Ceará, Pacoti, 2024. Proceedings, p. 594.
Station rotation: using an active methodology at the Pacoti Language Center
SILVA, J. R. R.; ANDRADE, T. M. S. In: 19th Congress on the History of Education in Ceará, Pacoti, 2024. Proceedings, p. 548.
Audio description as a tool for teaching English in public schools
SILVA, J. R. R.; VIEIRA, P. A.; SILVA, R. F. In: 6th Academic Research Seminar (SAP), POET-UFC, Fortaleza, 2024. Abstracts, pp. 44-45.
Audio description as a tool for teaching English in a public language school
14th Brazilian Congress of Applied Linguistics (CBLA) — symposium
Audiodescription as a tool to language learning: methodology
Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility in Education – A Global Perspective (conference)
Audio description as a tool for teaching English in public schools
Talk — also at the 17th Research and Graduate Studies Meeting and the “E por falar em tradução” meeting
A teaching sequence with audio description as a tool for teaching English in public schools
Paper presentation
Audio description as a tool for teaching Spanish
Talk
The use of AD as a Tool in ELT
SILVA, J. R. R.; SILVA, R. F.; VIEIRA, P. A. 1st International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility
Audiovisual translation and English learning
Conference
Teaching listening with movies and TV series
1st Colloquium on English Teaching Practices (COPELIN)
Using Nearpod to build multimodal teaching materials for English classes
SILVA, J. R. R.; CARVALHO, S. A. Paper presentation
Using digital educational resources in vocational schools of the Baturité Massif
1st Teacher Training Workshop
Online tools for teaching writing in a foreign language
Pedagogical Week, Maracaú Language Center
Official tests for studying at universities abroad
FLISOL — seminar
Portuguese syntax
SILVA, J. R. R.; CAVALCANTE, M. M. University Meetings (UFC)
ICTs in Spanish teaching: innovative concepts in 21st-century school learning
SILVA, J. R. R. Article.
New technologies and education: using interactive whiteboards in the classroom
SILVA, J. R. R. Article.
An analysis of English textbooks from a functional perspective
SILVA, J. R. R. Article.
Using authentic materials in English teaching
SILVA, J. R. R.; VASCONCELOS, F. Article.
Lefter — dubbing translation
Dubbing translation of a Netflix production (2025).
FICH
Software (unregistered).
Cooperative Learning (site)
Website about cooperative learning.
Ceará Reference Curriculum (DCRC)
Advisory and consulting — writing the English component and the Languages area (upper secondary).
Bullying – We Can Stop It!
SILVA, J. R. R.; TORRES, L. O.; ULISSES, L. F.; FELIX, R. Short film.
Lexical differences of Spanish across Spanish-speaking countries and with Portuguese
Short course (outreach).
Professional development in English teaching methodologies
Teacher training.
Training for the implementation of the New Upper Secondary School
Teacher training and instructional materials.
Teacher training on tools for remote teaching
Short course.
English beyond the verb to be
Short course (outreach).
Basic French conversation course
Short course.
Course on the Portuguese Spelling Agreement
Short course.
International Congress on Audiovisual Translation
SILVA, R. F.; VIEIRA, P. A.; JAMISON, K. G.; CHAUME, F.; SEOANE, A. F.; SILVA, J. R. R.
19th Congress on the History of Education in Ceará
Pacoti, Ceará, Brazil.
1st International Meeting of English Teachers of the Baturité Massif
Baturité, Ceará, Brazil.
1st Colloquium on English Teaching Practices (COPELIN)
JAMISON, K. G.; SILVA, J. R. R.
Game-based learning vs. traditional teaching: a comparative study of vocabulary acquisition among public school students in Pacoti, Ceará
Luan Alves Barbosa. Undergraduate thesis — English Language Teaching, UNILAB. Advisor (completed).
Between supply and absence: a survey of Portuguese audio description on Brazil's main streaming platforms
Camila dos Santos Monteiro. Undergraduate thesis — English Language Teaching, UNILAB. Advisor (completed).
A study on the role of game-based learning (GBL)
Luan Alves Barbosa. Undergraduate thesis — UNILAB. Ongoing supervision.
Undergraduate thesis committees for Luan Alves Barbosa and Camila dos Santos Monteiro
English Language Teaching, UNILAB.
Between subversion and normativity: translating the drag language of RuPaul's Drag Race for Brazilian audiences
Undergraduate thesis committee for Marco Antonio Abreu Costa — UNILAB.