Ana Luiza Freitas

As the implementation of systematic internationalization practices is actually quite new in the South American context, and as the Brazilian academia still struggles with the adoption of the English language and in a more student-centered teaching mode, promoting venues for their successful enactment is paramount. As such, I’m currently involved both with an EMI course project I have been co-designing and leading for nearly a decade, and with the recent exploration of collaborative online international learning (COIL) course models. With the former effort, I’m focused on aiding teachers in the development of methodological skills to teach through English, as well as on teaming up with some peers from the applied field of health sciences in carrying out courses. Such shared kind of practice provides rich empirical data on the teaching and learning perspective by means of EMI. Nevertheless, as my university is soon to get started in virtual international programs, exploring COIL models is also of central importance. Furthermore, I am also working on a team project to outline our academic community’s profile towards internationalization, encompassing language skills, EMI and COIL experiences, among others. I am also working on the production publications on the implementation of  EMI  in our university, on the teaching additional languages virtually through the adoption of active methodologies in times of pandemic, and on a book from my PhD research on academic writing in health sciences.