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Dr. Goulart da Silva is assistant professor of Linguistics at Montclair State University. She held a previous position as a Lecturer of TESOL at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. In 2022, Dr Goulart da Silva completed my PhD in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. Her MA in ELT was completed at Warwick University in Coventry, UK and BA in English and Portuguese Teaching was obtained from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
Dr. Goulart da Silva's research interest lies in corpus-based approaches to register variation, academic discourse, and second language writing. She has published her work in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Register Studies, Journal of Reading as a Foreign Language, among others.
Most of Dr. Goulart da Silva's research is informed by her experience as a Portuguese and English language teacher. She taught EFL/ESL classes in Brazil and in the US and Portuguese as a Foreign/Second Language in Brazil, the US and the UK.
Dr. Goulart da Silve coordinates the Laboratory for Applied Corpus Linguistics Research at Montclair State University.
Research interests
Corpus-based approaches to register variation, academic discourse, and second language writing.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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Writing tasks at school and university
Wong, V. V. (CoPI), Durrant, P. P. (PI), Watson, A. A. (CoPI) & Goulart da Silva, L. (CoPI)
Economic and Social Research Council
30/08/25 → 30/11/28
Project: Research
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Writing tasks at school and university
Wong, V. V. (CoPI), Durrant, P. P. (PI), Watson, A. A. (CoPI) & Goulart da Silva, L. (CoPI)
30/08/25 → 30/11/28
Project: Research
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De acordo com a…: Lexical Bundles and Disciplinary Variation in Academic Brazilian Portuguese
Goulart, L., 2025, In: Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada. 25, 1, e50007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The relative influence of language backgrounds, communicative text types, and disciplines in undergraduate student writing
Goulart, L. & Dixon, T., 3 Feb 2025, In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 11, 1, p. 178-216 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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AI or student writing? Analyzing the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing and AI-generated assignments
Goulart, L., Matte, M. L., Mendoza, A., Alvarado, L. & Veloso, I., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Second Language Writing. 66, 101160.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An introduction to CIABATTA: Increasing accessibility to corpus creation for non-experts
Goulart, L., Staples, S., Novikov, A., Picoral, A. & Reppen, R., Dec 2024, In: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. 3, 3, 100146.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring Language Patterns: Integrating Corpus Linguistics in the Pedagogical Grammar Class
Goulart, L., 1 Jan 2024, Corpora for Language Learning: Bridging the Research-Practice Divide. Taylor and Francis, p. 258-260 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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From Myanmar To Montclair: A Graduate's Journey Of Resilience And Purpose
13/05/26
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From Myanmar to Montclair: A Graduate’s Journey of Resilience and Purpose
7/05/26
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Experts to embark on radical new approach to understand the challenges of academic writing
7/10/25
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Northern Arizona University: Capturing Language, One Conversation at a Time
5/12/23
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