Rebecca Alves Araújo Cruz is licensed in English Literature and English Language and Linguistics course at the Federal University of Uberlândia, and have a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics by the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies, also at UFU. Her main research interest is related to the relationship between teaching and learning foreign languages and the identity construction of the individuals involved in this process, through Discourse Analysis, inserted in Applied Linguistics. She has also worked as a writer and translator, and as a teacher of English as a foreign language.