Luciana Cabrini Simões Calvo: Holds a degree in Portuguese-English Letters, a master's degree and a doctorate in Language Studies from the State University of Londrina. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, with a CNPQ grant. She is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and a permanent professor in the Postgraduate Program in Letters at the State University of Maringá. She coordinated the English-Letters project of the Institutional Program of Teaching Initiation Scholarships (PIBID) at UEM, the Paraná Speaks Languages-English Program and the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program (CAPES-Fulbright Notice 16/2019) of the institution. She worked at the International Cooperation Office of UEM, in the Internationalization at Home Sector. She promoted and coordinated Virtual Exchange actions at the institution (Brazilian Virtual Exchange Program -BRaVE/UEM). She has developed virtual exchange in partnership with professors from universities in the United States, Honduras, Algeria, Germany and Israel; in addition to mirror class activities in partnership with a professor from Colombia. Her research focuses on the areas of teacher training, language teaching and learning, English as a lingua franca, virtual learning exchange, internationalization, internationalization at home and English as a medium of instruction.
 

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