PhD student Jean Costa Silva presents at the Instituto de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Our PhD student Jean Costa Silva has recently given a series of talks on second language acquisition at the Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. In his interactive session "(Re)Acting You Age: Understanding Second Language Pragmatics", Jean spoke to TESOL majors about second language pragmatics and the stages of development of interlanguage pragmatics. The series was organized by Dr. Melissa de Sá, Professor of Languages and Literature.