Cícero da Silva

He holds a B.A. in English and Portuguese from the State University of Tocantins (Unitins), a Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree in Letters: Language and literature teaching from the Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), and a Postdoctorate in Applied Linguistics at the São Paulo State University (Unesp). Graduation Professor in Rural Education: Arts and Music and in the Linguistic and Literature graduate program of the Federal University of Northern Tocantins (UFNT), Brazil. Leader of Research Group on Education, Language, and Literacy - GEELL/UFNT/CNPq and Editor-chief of EntreLetras Journal. He has experience in the area of Applied Linguistics and Rural Education, working mainly on the following topics: discoursive genres, reading/writing practices, literacy, didactic material, and pedagogical practices in Rural Education (Pedagogy of Alternation). He is a member of the Brazilian Association of Linguistics (ABRALIN), the Linguistic Studies Group of the São Paulo State (GEL), and the Red Temática de Investigación de Educación Rural (RIER), Mexico.