Prof. Dr.Ernani Machado Garrão Neto is a professor and academic researcher at The Military School of Rio de Janeiro (CMRJ), He has supervised, from the last 20 years, students and their studies evolving both Portuguese and English languages, regarding their graduation aims during undergraduate time. He teaches High School Classes focused on Military careers (CaMil) and runs NELL project (Language Studies Project).
Individual researcher interested in second language acquisition issues, particularly applied to how adult speakers face different grammar structures and deal with it, during acquisition process, Professor Garrão Neto has lots of published articles and papers dealing with second language acquisition (SLA) issues.
Professor Garrão Neto holds a doctoral degree in Linguistics from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a post-doctoral certificate from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), in Portugal.