Marília Pinheiro Pereira
Fellow, Programa Leitorado para Instituição Universitária Estrangeira
Born in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, Marília Pinheiro Pereira completed her doctoral project in Language and Culture at the Universidade Federal da Bahia with a focus on teaching of Portuguese as a heritage and a pluricentric language. She is particularly interested in the development of innovative teaching materials and didactic concepts that take into account both the linguistic diversity of Portuguese and its cultural anchoring in Germany. Additionally she also focuses on the linguistic and intercultural contact between Portuguese and German in foreign language teaching. As part of her teaching activities, she also engages with the deabate on racism and anti-racism in Brazilian and German society.
Since November 2022, Marília has been a fellow of the Programa Leitorado para Instituição Universitária Estrangeira of the Brazilian government and is working at the Leitorado Brasileiro in Heidelberg, an institute of the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies.
Research Profile
Marília's research interests include the areas of sociolinguistics linked to studies on the teaching and learning of heritage languages, bilingualism and multilingualism, and pluricentric languages. With her research, she intends to develop teaching materials for the field of Portuguese as a heritage language from a pluricentric perspective.
Research in Progress
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Practices and representations in pluricentric language teaching in a multilingual and multicultural context: didactic methods for teaching and learning Portuguese as a heritage language in Germany.
- Marília's doctoral project aims to promote teaching practices of Portuguese as a heritage language in a multi/plurilingual context from a pluricentric and intercultural perspective and to develop teaching strategies. A qualitative methodological approach and a theoretical contribution of sociolinguistics to the reflection on the teaching/learning of heritage languages and pluricentric languages form the basis of the discussion of the data collected. The implementation of new teaching approaches that take into account the subjects within the context of the heritage language is fundamental for a stronger sense of belonging for these learners in their (heritage) language. It is expected that the results of this research project will point to new directions in didactic approaches for teaching Portuguese as a pluricentric language.
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Unesco Chair of Language Policy for Multilingualism
- This project, led by Prof. Dr. Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, entitled Políticas Linguísticas para o Multilinguismo, aims to build a research network of universities, institutes, national committees, professional networks, and academies from eleven countries to generate knowledge about the different contexts of multilingualism and about language policies developed in these contexts. It includes research groups in several universities and institutions in Brazil and abroad. As part of her dissertation, Marília is a member of the project group coordinated by Prof. Dr. Edleise Mendes at the Federal University of Bahia.
Publications
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Teaching
Summer Semester 2025
- Blackness and Whiteness in Brazilian Cinema and Scholarship
Contact
Marília Pinheiro Pereira
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: marilia.pinheiro_pereira(at)uni-heidelberg.de
Visiting address:
Bergheimer Straße 58a, 69115 Heidelberg
Room 117 (4311.01.117)