
PhD student in Language Teaching, specialising in Portuguese as a Foreign Language, at Universidade Aberta / NOVA FCSH. Master’s in Linguistics, in the area of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, from NOVA FCSH. She has a degree in Linguistics, with a major in Educational Training in Portuguese as a Mother Tongue and Non-Mother Tongue, from the same Faculty. Since 1999, she has been teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language at NOVA FCSH. Representative of LAPE 4004 in the assessment and application of CAPLE exams.
Collaborated in research projects with the Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology Group, CLUNL. She collaborated as a CLUNL researcher on the ECML project CLIL LOTE in the Pluriliteracies group, using Italian and Portuguese to develop CLIL materials. She was a member of the Portuguese team from the University of Algarve in the ERASMUS+ project Reinventing Mainstream Classrooms.
She held teaching positions in Portuguese (as both a first and second language) at the primary and secondary education levels.