Empowering Multilingual Teachers in ELT

Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos is Full Professor of English and Applied Linguistics in the Undergraduate and Graduate Program of Languages and Applied Linguistics at Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. Her research interests are pedagogical love in language learning and teaching; and the relationship between beliefs, actions, emotions and identities in the social context of language learning and teaching. She is editor and co-editor of several books including Beliefs about SLA: New research approaches (2003), Narratives of learning and teaching EFL (2008), and more recently Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (2016).

Shélynn (Shey) Riel is an international English language educator, teacher trainer, and podcaster with a Master's in TESOL and over 15 years of experience. She serves as Bridge's Expert Series Moderator and an instructor in Bridge's graduate-level TEFL program, the IDELTOnline™. Throughout her career, Shey has held leadership roles in curriculum development and program administration at U.S. universities and non-profits, facilitated digital exchanges for global English teachers, and delivered professional development workshops in Argentina, Bangladesh, and China.