My current research interests include (but are not limited to):

• First and Second Language Acquisition

• Formal Linguistic Theory: Generative Syntax, Semantics

• Semantic Typology

• Cognitive Linguistics

• Interlanguage Pragmatics

Peer-Reviewed

• Costa-Silva, J. (2024). Neither Portugal nor Brazil: an investigation of the decolonial efforts in Elementary Portuguese curricula within U.S. higher education institutions. Hispania, 107(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2024.a921462 

• Costa Silva, J., Fischer, D. (2022). Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice. In Língua(gem) e justiça social: saberes, práticas e paradigmas, vol 2, 40-53.

• Costa Silva, J., Saccomani, J. (2021). A revista de um programa de português como ferramenta didática: uma alternativa translíngue e multicultural. In Microgeopolítica da língua portuguesa: ações, desafios e perspectivas, 187-198.

• Costa Silva, J. (2018). Uma proposta interdisciplinar para o ensino de inglês: a história dos multi-word verbs. In Revista de Letra em Letra, 5, 74-82.

Forthcoming

• Costa-Silva, J. (2024). Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited: Evidence for Sensitivity Effects. UGA Working Papers in Linguistics.

Under Review

• Costa-Silva, J.,  Zhang, S.,Lee-Schoenfeld, V. The Effects of Bilingual Proficiency on the Acceptability of Motion Encoding Strategies.

• Costa-Silva, J., Lee-Schoenfeld, V. Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method.

• Costa-Silva, J., Giddens, C., Kudyba, S., What Lies on the Web: Four Widespread Myths about Second Language Acquisition.

Non-Peer-Reviewed

• Costa-Silva, J., Wolfman, M. (2023). The Importance of Working Papers in Linguistics. UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, 1-2.

Magazine

• 2022 Galician: Portuguese’s Not-So-Long-Lost Twin Sister, Fala Aí Magazine, University of Georgia 

• 2021 From Tutor to Tutor: Guidelines for a Successful Year, Fala Aí Magazine, University of Georgia

• 2020 Snake Island, Fala Aí Magazine, University of Georgia

• 2018 Writing Lights, Fala Aí Magazine, University of Georgia 

Creative

• 2021 The Lost Star: A estrela perdida, e-book, Sponsored by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts’s Shelter Project Micro-Fellowship, University of Georgia

• 2015 O Último Natal, e-book, Amazon

• 2014 Sinais de Trânsito [Traffic Lights], short-story, II "Travessia" Writing Contest, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Invited

• 2024 Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method, Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting

• 2023 A Matter of Space: The Acquisition of Motion Lexicalization Patterns by English and Portuguese Learners, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia

• 2022 (Re)Acting Your Age: Understanding Second Language Pragmatics, Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

• 2022 (Re)Acting Your Age: Stages of Interlanguage Pragmatics, Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Conferences

• 2024 The Acquisition of Motion Lexicalization Patterns by English-Portuguese Late Bilinguals, Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting

• 2024 Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method (with Vera Lee-Schoenfeld), Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia

• 2023 Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method (with Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld), Conference on Scholarly Teaching and SoTL in Linguistics – LSA Summer Institute, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

• 2023 Driving People and Flying Places: The Development of Motion Lexicalization Patterns in English-Portuguese Bilinguals, Spring Student Research Symposium, University of South Carolina

• 2023 A Matter of Space: The Acquisition of Motion Encoding by English-Portuguese Bilinguals Across Proficiency Levels, 90th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 90), University of Mississippi

• 2023 Multiple Ways to Cross a Bridge: The Acquisition of Manner–Path Encoding by Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilinguals, 17th Annual Kaleidoscope Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 2022 Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice, 89th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL LXXXIX), Louisiana State University

• 2022 Voicing the Global South: Translanguaging for Social Justice, JoLLE Winter Conference, University of Georgia

• 2021 Willingness to Communicate in Undergraduate Foreign Language Classrooms, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2021 Conference

• 2018 The Role of the Speaker in the Post-Method Era, Braz-Tesol English Teachers National Conference, Brazil

• 2017 Four Games To Promote Conversation, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant International Conference, Washington, D.C.

• 2016 Work Hard, Play Hard: Making preparation for Cambridge Exams fun!, 11th ABCI Conference, Brazil

Colloquia

• 2022 Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited, Romance Languages Spring Colloquium, University of Georgia

• 2022 Islandhood in Brazilian Portuguese Revisited: A Case for Sensitivity Effects, Linguistics Spring Colloquium, University of Georgia

Poster Presentations

• 2024 Becoming Linguists: An Experiential-Learning Approach to the Study of Language, Spring Teaching Symposium, University of Georgia

• 2023 (Syntactically) Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method, Spring Teaching Symposium, University of Georgia

• 2018 Gifted and talented adults’ adjustment to society after special education, XI International Conference of Gifted Children’s Educators, Centro para o Desenvolvimento do Potencial e Talento, Brazil

Panels

• 2018 Next Generations of Gifted Children, XI International Conference of Gifted Children’s Educators, Centro para o Desenvolvimento do Potencial e Talento, Brazil