II EPPI: Encontro Paraibano de Professores de Inglês (2015)

From November 6-7, 2015, the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) hosted the second annual Encontro Paraibano de Professores de Inglês (EPPI). The event took place at the Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes (Campus I, UFPB).

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The EPPI conference gathered nearly 200 teachers from regular schools and language schools, in addition to professors from institutes of higher education, to strengthen dialogue amongst English teaching professionals in the state of Paraíba. Professors from IFPB, UEPB, and UFCG evaluated the poster session.

 

In its second edition, the event‘s programs included, assemblies, roundtable discussions, poster sessions, workshops, and a tribute to the professor Ribamar de Castro, who celebrated his 40 years of work at UFPB in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages (DLEM).

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Supporters of the II EPPI were: the U.S General Consulate of Recife, the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba (IFPB), the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), the Universidade Federal da Campina Grande (UFCG), the Educational Secretariat of Paraíba, the British Council, the Centro de Línguas da Prefeitura da Paraíba (CELEST), the Grupo of Estudos em Letramento, Interação e Trabalho (GELIT/CNPq/UFPB), the Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes of UFPB, the Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Moderna, the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PROLING/UFPB), the BRAZ-Tesol (Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in Brazil), the

bookstore SBS International (João Pessoa), publishers as Cengage & National Geographic, Pearson and Macmillan, the Fulbright Commission of Brazil, and the Regional Language Office (RELO/São Paulo)

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