Professor Patricia Thomasio Quinelato Garcia
Visiting Instructor
Bio
She holds degrees from the Centro Universit谩rio Ibero-Americano (Brazil), the Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil), the Universidade Nove de Julho (Brazil), the Pontif铆cia Universidade Cat贸lica de S茫o Paulo (Brazil) (MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies), the Universidade de S茫o Paulo (Brazil) (PhD in Sciences in the program of School Psychology and Human Development) and the University of Mississippi (MA in Spanish). Her theses are: 1) The interaction provided by games in English language classroom: participation modes of teacher and students, and 2) Story reading as a method for cognate vocabulary learning in preschool children. Her dissertation is: Doing and comprehending the Sudoku game and its problem-situations: A study with 9th grade students from Middle School. Patr铆cia has been teaching children, teenagers and adults since 1996 and her interests include languages, children education and development of reasoning in children and teenagers.
- MA - University of Mississippi (2019)
- Portuguese (Native or Bilingual)
- Spanish (Native or Bilingual)