Maria Isabel Fraústo has a degree in Portuguese (2013) and a master’s degree in Portuguese as a Foreign and Second Language (2017) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra. She has been a PLE teacher since 2015, having collaborated with various institutions such as: Lahrech Education Centre, Algeria (2015); Universidad Jose Simeon Cañas, El Salvador (2016) and Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Poland (2018-2022). She currently teaches PLE to adults of various nationalities and is in the second year of her MA in Language Sciences, specialising in Language Acquisition and Disorders at NOVA FCSH.