Leonardo da Silva is an English professor at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), in Brazil. He teaches English in a varied number of programs of basic, technical, and technological education. His main research interests include Critical Pedagogy, Task Based Language Teaching, Teaching of English and Portuguese as Additional Languages, and Cultural Studies. He holds a master's degree in Cultural Studies and a PhD in language studies and his most recent publications focus on the role of the teacher in the implementation of tasks designed from a critical perspective.