A picture of myself wearing a blue sweater. I am standing in front of a mosaic wall at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Cesar Teló

Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Sessional Instructor

University of Calgary

Affiliations

Master's Student

University of Calgary

Contact information

Background

Educational Background

BA English Language and Literature, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2021

Biography

In 2021, I earned a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures (concentration in English Language and Applied Linguistics) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. During my undergraduate studies, I was a visiting student at the University of Calgary, Canada, funded by the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (Government of Canada).

In 2022, I did a research internship at the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics in Berlin, Germany.

Research

Areas of Research

Second Language Speech - Pronunciation

As an applied linguist, I am interested in real-world language-related issues. I am broadly interested in second language speech, including how learners acquire and process individual sounds, how individual differences affect the learning process, how listeners react to second language speech, how speaking with a second language accent impacts speakers’ lives, and how pronunciation can be taught and learned more critically and effectively.

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
SPAN 201 LAB Beginner's Spanish I Fall 2023
SPAN 203 Beginner's Spanish II Summer 2023
SPAN 203 LAB Beginner's Spanish II Winter 2023
SPAN 201 LAB Beginner's Spanish I Fall 2022
SPAN 203 LAB Beginner's Spanish II Fall 2022

Awards

  • Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship - International, Government of Alberta. 2023
  • Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship - International, Government of Alberta. 2022
  • Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program, Global Affairs - Government of Canada. 2021

Publications

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching