Walcir Cardoso
Dr. Cardoso (PhD McGill)
joined the TESL Centre, Department of Education at Concordia University
in 2003 after completing his PhD at McGill University in theoretical
linguistics (specialization in phonology and sociolinguistics). His
main research interest is to explore how the broad insights provided
by theoretical phonology and sociolinguistics can be applied to the
investigation of the variable patterns that characterize the speech
of English learners. His most recent publications involve the investigation
of domain-driven and sociolinguistic variation in Picard and Brazilian
Portuguese from an Optimality Theoretical perspective. He also teaches
Phonology, Computers in Language Learning, and Methodology: Reading
and Writing, and has taught courses in theoretical and applied linguistics
for both the Department of Linguistics at McGill University, as well
as the Department of Foreign Languages at Universidade Federal do Pará
(Brazil). His teaching career also includes several years of ESL/EFL
and Portuguese teaching in Canada and in his native Brazil. Outside
of academia, he also writes about audio equipment for a specialized
Brazilian magazine, works as a consultant for Lexicon Branding in the
design and evaluation of brand names for adoption in the Brazilian market,
practices his clarinet, and experiences other worlds in the form of
music, poetry and cinema.