Ronan Pereira holds a master’s degree in Sciences of Languages (specialization in Language Development and Language Impairment, a post-graduation in Teaching Methodology for Portuguese and Foreign Languages, and currently is a PhD student in Linguistics – Psycholinguistics. His PhD dissertation focuses on second dialect acquisition, namely the acquisition of European Portuguese specific morphosyntactic properties by native Brazilian Portuguese immigrants in Portugal in a socio- and psycholinguistic perspective. Furthermore, he also conducts research in second language acquisition, as well as language variation.