Preface

Barbara Oughton Baptista holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics(California University at Los Angeles, 1992) and has been a Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) since 1979, working at the English Graduate Program in English and Literature. She has conducted and supervised research in the areas of L2 phonological acquisition, and her work has been published in journals such as Language and Speech, System, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Ilha do Desterro, and Revista de Estudos da Linguagem.