PhD candidate in Language Didactics – Multilingualism and Education for Citizenship, focusing on the teaching of French as a Foreign Language, in a partnership between Universidade Aberta and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, under the supervision of Christina Dechamps, a member of CLUNL. His dissertation, titled “Développer l’oralité en français langue étrangère par le biais de l’humour: Expériences de recherche-action auprès d’apprenants de français au Cap-Vert“, investigates strategies to improve the oral proficiency of Cape Verdean students of French through humor. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Verde and a tenured teacher with the Ministry of Education of Cape Verde. He holds a Master’s degree in Language Sciences from Université Via Domitia, in Perpignan, France, and a Bachelor’s degree in French Studies from the Higher Institute of Education in Cape Verde.