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Collaborators
Ana Afonso graduated in Language Sciences at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) in 2016, having obtained the Merit and Excellence Award for best graduate. She completed a Master’s degree in Language Sciences at the same University in 2018. She worked as a linguist at Lionbridge in 2017-2018 and collaborated in the Clarin Project – Research Infrastructure for Science and Technology of Language. Currently, she is a PhD student in Linguistics at NOVA FCSH (grant holder 2021.08695.BD).
Hélder Pande Alexandre, Assistant professor from School of Social Sciences of University Agostinho Neto, in Luanda, is a PhD student in Linguistics, specialty Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, from NOVA FCSH. He holds a master’s degree in Terminology and Special Information Management (2015) and a postgraduate degree in Information Management and Curation (2023), both from NOVA FCSH, as well as a degree in Education Sciences, Portuguese Teaching option, from Higher Institute of Education Sciences in Luanda (2013). He worked for ten years as a Portuguese teacher in Secondary Education, in Luanda.
FCT grant holder (reference number: 2020.07501.BD), Bruna Bandeira is a PhD scholar in Discourse and Text Linguistics studies within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH). She holds a master’s degree in Linguistics from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) in 2017; with a teaching certificate in Portuguese Language in 2015, and a bachelor’s in Journalism and Social Communication from the same institution (UFPE) in 2007. Between 2017-2019, she worked as substitute professor at the Portuguese Language Department at UFPE. She works in the area of Linguistics, within the branches of Text and Discourse, Portuguese Teaching and Learning, and Applied Linguistics. Her scholarly work focuses on Portuguese Teaching and Learning and linguistic knowledge from a socio-discursive interactionist perspective.
Currently in her second year of the master ‘s degree in Discoveries and Modern History in NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, as completed her degree in Art History in the same University in 2021. Within the Art History degree has concluded a curricular internship in the investigation project VESTE – Vestir a corte: Traje, género e identidade(s) in CHAM (Humanities Center) in which she kept working upon the end of the internship. She was a grant holder in the project TERMVEST – The Clothing Terminology: European Portuguese version in CLUNL (Linguistics Research Center of NOVA University Lisbon).
PhD in Linguistics, member of the Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology group at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon. She conducts her PhD research on Computational Lexical Semantics and lexicon modelling, supervised by Professor Raquel Amaro and Professor Sara Mendes. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Turin (Italy) and a Master’s degree in Translation at the Faculty of Humanities of University of Lisbon (Portugal), where she was part of the Group of Computation of Lexicon-Grammatical Knowledge – of the Linguistics Centre at the University of Lisbon (LETRADU project). She was a researcher grant holder (scholarship – FCSH/CLUNL/ UIDB/03213/2020 /1BI) within the EXPRIMI project and she joined the HUGOD (Humanities Going Digital) project.
Bruna Bragança has a master degree in Child Language Development and Disorders with a specialization in Language Education and Teaching, from School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Escola Superior de Saúde of the Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. Her dissertation on the acquisition of verbal inflectional morphology by bilingual children was supervised by professor João Costa. Her main research areas are First and Second Language Acquisition. She is a research grant holder within the project PIPALE.
With a degree in Portuguese and English Studies, by the University of the Azores, and a Master in Portuguese and Foreign Languages Teaching in the 3rd cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education, in the area of specialization of English, in NOVA University of Lisbon. She was a grant holder from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the DiTo Project,
She has a degree in Translation and a master’s degree in Translation with a specialization in English from NOVA FCSH. She has a specialization course in Translation Practices and Technologies from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in Language Sciences, specialization area in Terminology and Specialty Information Management. She is a researcher on the project Horizon Europa: HetERogeneous sEmantic Data integratIon for the guT-bRain interplaY [Grant agreement ID: 101137074].
BA in Translation in NOVA FCSH and Postgraduate in Globalisation, Diplomacy and Security in NOVA FCSH in partnership with IUM. MA in Language Science, specialization area in Terminology and Special Information Management. Currently, he is a master student in Political Science and International Relations, and a PhD student in Linguistics, specializing in Lexicology, Lexicography, and Terminology in NOVA FCSH. His doctoral thesis [UI/BD/154833/2023] focuses on terminological issues in the Military Sciences. He was a research fellow in the MORDIGITAL project (PTDC/LLT-LIN/6841/2020).
Sara Carvalho is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, where she teaches courses in the fields of terminology, specialised translation, English and German linguistics, and technical communication.
She holds a PhD in Linguistics, with a specialisation in Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). Her thesis, entitled “A terminological approach to knowledge organisation within the scope of endometriosis: the EndoTerm project”, was developed within the scope of a co-tutelle agreement between the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and the Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes. She holds an MA in German Studies – specialisation in German Linguistics – from the University of Aveiro (UA), and graduated in Modern Languages and Literature (English and German Studies) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Coimbra.
She is a researcher at the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Centre of the University of Aveiro (CLLC-UA) (Full member) and at the Linguistics Research Centre of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA CLUNL) (Collaborator). In addition, she is a member of the ISO/TC 37 “Language and terminology” and of the Portuguese mirror committee “CT 221 – Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens” at IPQ. She also integrates the COST Action 18209 – European network for Web-centred linguistic data science, where she currently leads Working Group 4 (Use cases and applications).
Research areas:
terminology and ontologies, medical terminology, lexicography, language teaching for specific purposes, technical communication
More information available at: https://sarampcarvalho.github.io/
Tatiana Cavalcanti has a degree in Speech Therapy from the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (Brazil) and holds a master’s degree in Language Sciences from the same University. She is a clinical therapist specialized in Fluency Disorders and has coordinated the GEAG – “Grupo de Estudos e Atendimento à Gagueira” (Study and Stutter Care Group) at the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco for eleven years. She has experience as a guest lecturer in the subjects of Language Acquisition, Language Disorders and Techniques of Speech, Diction and Oral Expression. She is a PhD student in Linguistics, specialization in Psycholinguistics, at NOVA FCSH with the project “A gaguez como um distúrbio de linguagem: análise prosódica das palavras gaguejadas por crianças falantes do português europeu e português brasileiro” (Stuttering as a language disorder: prosodic analysis of the words stuttered by children speaking European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese).
Yumo Ci is a PhD student in Linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon. Her research interests include phonetic and phonological acquisition, psycholinguistics, and non-native language acquisition. Currently, her PhD project investigates the perception and production of Mandarin tones by Portuguese learners.
Cristina Clemente is a PhD student in Language Teaching – Multilinguism and Education for a Global Citizenship, specialization area French as a Foreign Language, at NOVA FCSH/Universidade Aberta. She teaches French at NOVA FCSH and ILNOVA. She has a Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures by School of Arts and Humanities of ULisboa and a Master in Foreign Language Teaching by NOVA FCSH. She has been teaching French as a foreign language in several institutions. She also does linguistic proofreading for companies and publishers. Her research interests include didactics of foreign language, teaching French as a foreign language, the ICT in education and the implementation of the flipped classroom in higher education.
PhD in Linguistics, specialisation in Psycholinguistics, supervised by Professora Maria Lobo. She has a Master in Speech and Hearing Sciences by Universidade de Aveiro and a Degree in Speech-language Therapy by Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro. She worked as a speech-language pathologist. Her areas of interest are language acquisition and language impairments. Her PhD thesis is entitled “Syntatic abilities in children with autistic spectrum disorder”.
Degree in Linguistics at NOVA FCSH in 2000. Post-graduation in Portuguese (mother and foreign language) Educational background at NOVA FCSH in 2004. Master degree in eLearning Systems Management at NOVA FCSH em 2012. Portuguese foreign language teacher at NOVA FCSH since 2004 and at NOVA SBE since 2015. Participation in projects: CIPM, Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval; ALME – LINGUA 1.3 ALME; ONENESS – On-line less used and less taught language course project; DLPM – Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Medieval; DTAAPFOL – Dicionário de termos de aquisição e aprendizagem do português para falantes de outras línguas.
Ana Rita Faustino is an invited assistant at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa (ISCAL) and PhD candidate at the Linguistics Research Centre of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (CLUNL) and the Center for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). In 2011, she obtained a Master’s degree in English and German Teaching, in the same faculty, with the dissertation entitled The (inter) cultural component in the production of written text in the foreign language teaching and learning. She develops research in the areas of second language acquisition and foreign language didactics. In 2013, she won the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca Expresso/ Gulbenkian with the children’s book “O Cotão Simão”.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Literature in French, at the Faculty of Arts of the Agostinho Neto University (Angola) and researcher at CLUNL. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education Sciences, specialization in Linguistics/French, a Master’s Degree in Portuguese Language Teaching and a PhD in Linguistics and Language Teaching. He develops research in the field of Teaching of Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages. Giving privilege to the theoretical and epistemological framework of socio-discursive interactionism, his main interest is the teaching of writing through the genres of text.
Ana Filipa Fonseca is a PhD student in Language Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, a researcher at the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto (CLUP) and the Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL), developing her PhD investigation in media discourse with a grant awarded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation. Her research interests lie in text linguistics and semantics, focusing on science communication discourse and explanation. She is also a member of GICIL (Group of Researchers in Language Sciences), an association of CLUP.
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.
PhD in “Translation and Terminology” (NOVA University Lisbon and University of Aveiro), she developed a thesis on the presence and translation of terms in literary texts. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (1985) from NOVA FCSH; was a teacher of Portuguese Language and Culture at the Spanish Institute of Lisbon (1985-1989); Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics (1990-1995); Copywriter at the Leo Burnett Agency (1995-2000), scriptwriter and literary translator (2000-…). She is currently a reader at the Camões Institute at the University of Algiers 2 (Institut de Traduction).
Yuxin Ge is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in second language (L2) phonology at CLUNL, supported by the Global Advancement Fund (GAF) from Lancaster University. In her current role, Yuxin investigates how adult learners acquire non-native phonological features, focusing on the cognitive mechanisms underlying learning and individual differences in learning outcomes. Yuxin holds a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University (UK), where her doctoral research used a cross-situational statistical learning paradigm to examine the acquisition of non-native words by adults. Prior to her postdoctoral position, she contributed as a PhD student to the ProPerL2 project at CLUNL [FCT grant agreement 2022.04013.PTDC].
Eduardo Paré Glück holds a PhD and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, UNISINOS. He has completed his Sandwich PhD at the Linguistics Center of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (CLUNL), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Matilde Gonçalves (PDSE/CAPES Scholarship). He is a specialist in English Language Teaching Methodology from Universidade Paulista, UNIP. Graduated in Languages, with qualifications in Portuguese Language, English Language and Literature from UNISINOS. He is a researcher in the Science Communication: Linguistic and Technodiscursive Studies research group, coordinated by Profa. Dr. Maria Eduarda Giering, from UNISINOS, as well as Grammar & Text, coordinated by Profa. Dr. Antónia Coutinho, from NOVA FSCH. In addition, he serves as a member of the editorial board of the LER Project – Literature and Science and the scientific journal from Simon Fraser University, in Canada.
Mário Gouveia is a historian and linguist. He earned a B.A. in Classical Studies (FLUL) and a M.Sc. in Language Sciences (NOVA FCSH). He also has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Portuguese as Second and Foreign Language (NOVA FCSH). He was a Guest Lecturer at the Department of History of NOVA FCSH, teaching undergraduate courses in History and Archaeology. He was awarded the Merit and Excellence Award 2019/2020 – Best Masters for his dissertation “O pretérito perfeito passivo, do latim ao português. Estudo de caso a partir do género epigráfico”, under supervision of professor Maria Teresa Brocardo. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics at NOVA FCSH, with a research focus on the relations between verb, tense and aspect in the Latin language, in a historical and diachronic perspective. As a researcher of the group Grammar & Text of the Centre for Linguistics of NOVA University of Lisbon, his interests are Historical Linguistics and Latin Linguistics.
Wenjun Gu, PhD student in Linguistics from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; MA in European Language and Literature from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU); graduated in Portuguese Language and Culture from the same university. Since 2012, she has been teaching Portuguese at SISU.
M.A degree in Language Sciences – Psycholinguistics by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Attending the PhD program in Psycholinguistics by the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa under the supervition of Professor Maria Lobo. The research focuses on the properties of the null pronoun in the Angolan Variety of Portuguese, interpretation and processing.
Toivo Haipinge holds a Master’s degree in Terminology and Specialty Information Management (NOVA FCSH, 2017) and a degree in Education Sciences, option History Teaching, from the Higher Institute of Education Sciences of Lubango (ISCED-Huíla, 2012). He was a teacher of History and Methodology of History Teaching in Secondary Education, in Cunene, for over ten years, and is currently a teacher of Portuguese at the Teacher Training School of Ondjiva “Dr. António Agostinho Neto”, in Cunene, with the category of teacher of primary and secondary education of the 3rd grade. He is currently a doctoral student at CLUNL, under the guidance of Professor Raquel Amaro, developing a thesis in the specialty area of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology.
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. She has been teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language at NOVA FCSH since 1999. 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 collaborates as a CLUNL researcher on the ECML project CLIL LOTE in the Pluriliteracies group, using Italian and Portuguese to develop CLIL materials. Portuguese language teacher as first, second and foreigner language at Middle and High School.
Victoria Isrigova is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Porto, working under the supervision of Juliana Novo Gomes and Joana Teixeira (CLUNL). Her research is conducted at both the Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto and the Centre for Linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon. Her thesis, “Interfaces in L2: The Acquisition of English Dative Alternation”, explores the acquisition of English by native Portuguese speakers from a psycholinguistic perspective. This project is funded by an FCT grant (2024.03031.BD). Her main research interests include language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and language pedagogy, and she also has extensive experience in teaching.
PhD student in Linguistics, specialisation area in Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon, and in Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African Studies at the University of Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis (E.A.31) (co-tutored). He holds a master’s degree in Terminology and Management of Specialised Information from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a postgraduate diploma in School Administration and Management from the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. He has worked as a secondary school teacher in Angola since 2004. He worked as a general supervisor, co-author and linguistic proofreader on the project to correct and update primary school textbooks in Angola, developed by the Ministry of Education in its 1st Edition (2020-2021) and 2nd Edition (2022-2023). He is an author, carries out linguistic revision work for publishers and institutions, a member of the team organising the “Semana da Língua Portuguesa” and also member of the CPLP Brochures Project team.
PhD student in Linguistics at NOVA FCSH, he develops a thesis in the specialty of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, under the supervision of Professor Rute Costa. He holds a master’s degree in Lusophone Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior (2018). Degree in Language and Literatures in Portuguese from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (now the Faculty of Humanities) of the Agostinho Neto University (2015). He is a lecturer (Trainee Assistant) at the Department of Language and Literatures in Portuguese Language – Faculty of Humanities of the Agostinho Neto University.
Audria Leal holds a PhD in Linguistics from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, with specialization in text theory. She works as a researcher at CLUNL (Linguistics Research Centre of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and is also a member of the G&T Group (Grammar & Text). She develops work in the areas of Text and Discourse Linguistics, in which she favors the theoretical and methodological framework of the Sociodiscursive Interactionism, Applied Linguistics to Portuguese teaching, Enunciative Semantics and Social Semiotics with emphasis on the theoretical and methodological framework of the Grammar of Visual Design (Kress & Van Leeuwen). She is the author of several articles, both in Portugal and abroad, in which she analyzes the relationship between verbal and non-verbal language and its operation in multimodal texts.
She graduated in Portuguese Language and Culture at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2017, and in 2021 she completed her master’s degree in the specialisation area “Syntax and Second Language Acquisition” at the University of Lisbon. She is a PhD candidate in General Linguistics at NOVA FCSH. Her research interests include syntax, linguistic processing and second language acquisition. Grantee of the Research Grant of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, IP (FCT) with reference UI/BD/152815/2022.
Conceição Lima is currently pursuing a doctorate in Linguistics, in the area of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology at NOVA FCSH. Her thesis, supervised by Prof. Raquel Amaro and Prof. Amália Mendes, aims to study semantic neology resulting from the metaphoric use of linguistic units in the context of natural discourse. The identification of metaphors is therefore the first step, in order to delimit metaphoric uses that give rise to new meanings in a linguistic unit.
Between 2005 and 2011, she taught at the Catholic University of Angola (School of Humanities), lecturing Translation Theory on the course of Languages, Literatures and Administration.
She has a Master’s degree in English Studies (specializing in Translation Studies) from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, and a Bachelor’s in Germanic Philology from the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Postgraduate in Portuguese Language Teaching – ISCED-Luanda. MSc in Terminology and Information of the Specialty Management by School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. PhD student in the specialty of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology – School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Portuguese Language teacher and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at Catholic University of Angola. Member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic University of Angola.
Miguel Magalhães is a Ph.D. Student in Text and Speech Linguistics and grant holder from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the KRUse programme. He has participated in several R&D projects and published several scientific papers in several national and international journals. Currently, his main areas of research are textual analysis, text mining and categorization. He also collaborates as a Portuguese foreign language teacher at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH/IMS) – Levels A1 to C2.
PhD student at NOVA University Lisbon, focusing on native speaker pronunciation in advanced learners of EFL. She is currently a lecturer in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at the same university, having previously worked at the British Council in Lisbon, teaching English and preparing teaching materials for various products of the institute.
He has a degree in English Teaching from Eduardo Mondlane University, a Master’s degree in Conference Interpreting, and a Post-graduate degree in Translation from the Pedagogical University of Maputo. Interpreter, translator, English teacher and trainer of interpreters at the Pedagogical University of Maputo and at the Pan-African University based in Cameroon. He is currently attending a PhD course in Translation and Terminology at the NOVA University Lisbon.
With a degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, from NOVA University Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a Master’s degree in Teaching of the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education, in the specialization area of Portuguese and English. Presently, she is part of the DiTo Project, with a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
João de Matos is a teacher of Portuguese as a Foreign Language and a Ph.D. grant holder in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics) at NOVA University Lisbon (UI/BD/152814/2022). He completed his MA in Language Sciences (Linguistics) at NOVA University Lisbon in October 2020 with a dissertation in the field of Experimental Psycholinguistics about the processing of grammatical gender features in European Portuguese supervised by professors Susana Correia and Matilde Gonçalves. In 2021, his dissertation won the “NOVA FCSH 2020-2021 Gender Equality and Diversity Award” and the “Portuguese Association of Linguistics / Maria Helena Mira Mateus 2021 Research Award”. His main research interests are Experimental Psycholinguistics and Linguistic Processing. At the moment, his main research topic is the interaction between Language, Gender, and Human Cognition.
Joana Miguel has been a Speech Therapist since 2006, by Escola Superior de Saúde de Alcoitão, specialized in Special Needs Education by the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana of Universidade de Lisboa, in 2009. Currently a PhD student in Psycholinguistics at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her professional practice is related to children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the clinical director of CAIDI (Centro de Apoio e Intervenção no Desenvolvimento Infantil), coordinating the Research and Development Department. Research interests: language processing, reading and writing.
“Técnico Superior” at Camões I.P., since October 2021, develops interactive web applications. Areas of interest: Second Language Acquisition, Development of Interactive Web Applications with R and Shiny, Statistics and Data Analysis/Visualization with R.
Since 2007, she is PhD in Linguistics (Theory of Text) by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina and she is the coordinator of under graduation level on Portuguese for students of initial teacher training. She develops research on linguistics, and has published papers in the area of text analysis and textual genres, interlinguistic analysis (Portuguese-Spanish), and language teaching training. She was a post-doc grant fellow at CLUNL (2008-2013). At present she collaborates with CLUNL, mainly in the area of research of text genres.
Ph.D in Linguistics (Psycholinguistics), developed her Ph.D research on language acquisition in deaf children with cochlear implants, supervised by Professor João Costa. She has a Graduation in Linguistics at the Faculty of Letters and a Master in Cognitive Science at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon. She was researcher scholarship in several Linguistic research projects related with oral and sign language acquisition and development and with bimodal bilingualism in deaf children with and without cochlear implants, which are her areas of interest. She was a Ph.D grant holder within the KRUse Program (PD/BD/105763/2014).
A Linguistics PhD student, in the branch of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, he is also a research fellow in the iRead4Skills research project – Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development [101094837], in which he carried out his master’s dissertation, developing an infrastructure of textual complexity gauging for low-literacy adults. Besides the interest in the topic of Text Complexity, he conducts his PhD research in the realm of Computational Linguistics, namely in modelling figurative language.
Isabel Muniz-Lima graduated in Letters/Portuguese from Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). She later earned a Specialization in Portuguese Language Teaching from Faculdade 7 de Setembro (Fa7). Subsequently she earned a Master Degree in Linguistics from Universidade Federal do Ceará (PPGLIN / UFC). She is a simultaneous interpreter (Portuguese-French), having worked at an international event of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN). She is an Integrated Researcher at the “Protexto” Research Group and works as Assistant Editor of the journal “Entrepalavras”. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Universidade Federal do Ceará (PPGLIN/UFC/CAPES) and NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA). Her main research interests focus on Textual and Applied Linguistics.
Henrique Simão Mutali holds a Master’s degree in Biblical Theology from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Portugal and a Master’s degree in Linguistics (Syntax) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon and he has been developing research in the field of Portuguese variation in time and space, especially in what differentiates it from European and Brazilian Portuguese.
PhD student in Didactics of Languages, with specialization in French, Foreign Language, at NOVA FCSH / Universidade Aberta. Master in Estudos Românicos – Textos e Contextos at NOVA FCSH (2006-2009) and graduated in the Educational Branch in Modern Languages and Literatures Portuguese and French studies by the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon (1996 -2001). Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (2011-2015) and at the Abrantes School of Technology (2005-2007). French teacher at Alliance Française de Santarém (2012-2014). Currently French and Portuguese teacher at the Professional School of Vale do Tejo in Santarém.
PhD student in Linguistics and Language Teaching, with a research project in Portuguese as a Heritage Language. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature – Portuguese Studies, from the University of Lisbon and a Master’s degree in Portuguese as a Second/Foreign Language from the University of Porto. She is a teacher of Portuguese language in Secondary school and has collaborated with Camões, I.P., in Portuguese Courses for foreigners, since 2012. She was a Lecturer at Instituto Camões in New Jersey. She has worked in the development of teaching materials, being the co-author of several workbooks of Portuguese as a foreign language, for general and specific purposes.
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.
Fineza Pinto Marimba holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education Science, Portuguese Language Teaching, from Agostinho Neto University. Holds a Master’s degree in Language Science from the New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Social Social and Humanities. Her Master’s thesis dissertation focused on Portuguese Second Language Acquisition (Angolan Portuguese), which granted her the Excellence and Merit Award 2015/2016 – Best Masters. She is now a Ph.D. student of Linguistics, specializing in Lexicology, Lexicography, and Terminology, and developing her studies in lexical innovation in Angolan Portuguese. Professionally, she is a Portuguese teacher in Secondary Education since 2011 in Angola. In addition to teaching, she held responsibilities as Chief of the Department of Pre-school and Primary Education of the National Institute of Research and Development of Education (INIDE in Portuguese) and, more recently, she acted as a consultant for the Ombudsman of Angola.
He worked for 9 years in Guinea-Bissau in various programs related to Portuguese language teaching, financed by Camões I.P., namely in Bissau Law School and Bissau Portuguese Cultural Centre. He was valedictorian in Teaching Portuguese as a Second/Foreign Language MA. As a PhD student with a FCT grant, he is interested in Language Policy and Planning, associated to the subject of Teaching Portuguese as a Second Language. He is a guest lecturer in NOVA FCSH, teaching Portuguese as a Second Language for Academic Purposes, and collaborates in CLUNL’s group Grammar & Text.
Graduated in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures with specialization in Portuguese and English, is currently a master’s student in Ensino de Português e Língua Estrangeira no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário, with specialization in English. Has presented a poster under the project Humanities Going Digital (HUGOD) [2020-2-CZ01-KA226-HE-094363], untitled “Perceiving societal and moral trends related to sex abuse in the press through linguistic data analysis”. She was a member of the Portuguese team in the project iRead4Skills – Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development [101094837]. She is currently a research fellow at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences as part of the Portuguese Language Dictionary project.
PhD student in Linguistics (2020.05419.BD), specialization area in Historical Linguistics. Maria Ribeiro is developing her research project on the distinction “ser/estar” in Medieval Portuguese, under the guidance of Professors Clara Nunes Correia (NOVA FCSH) and Paulo Osório (FAL-UBI). Maria Ribeiro graduated in Philosophy at FLUL and has a Master degree in Language Sciences at NOVA FCSH. She is also a collaborator of the research group “Grammar & Text”.
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.
Cláudia Ruas is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University Lisbon, and works as a Portuguese teacher at the José Saramago School Group, in Palmela. She collaborates with the Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon (CLUNL). Her research focuses on the field of text and discourse linguistics, with particular attention to gender-sensitive language, discriminatory linguistic patterns, and textual reformulation from a socio-discursive approach.
Born in Luanda on April 25, 1975. She is public worker of the Secretariat of the Angolan Council Ministers for more than 10 years, currently working as a Senior Assistant in the Human Resources Office and member of Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon.
PhD student in Linguistics – specialization in Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, Master in Sociology of Crime Violence and Internal Security, Postgraduate in Human Resources Management and Licentiate in Sociology.
Maria Teresa Brito Chedas de Sampaio has a Degree in Basic Education and a Professional Master’s Degree in Teaching the 1st and 2nd Cycles of Basic Education from the Lisbon Higher Education School of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. Maria Teresa also has a Master’s degree in Integrated Didactics in Portuguese Language, Mathematics, Natural and Social Sciences, from the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa of the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, having carried out a dissertation on the use of unconventional texts in teaching natural sciences to its effectiveness in learning.
Its main area of interest is the Acquisition and Development of Language nº 1st Cycle of Basic Education, in particular with regard to the explicit teaching of lexicon and vocabulary and their role in the development of writing skills. Currently developing research on lexicon and writing, within the PhD in Language Didactics – Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship, area of specialization Teaching Portuguese as a Mother Tongue (L1).
Ana Santana holds a master’s degree in Language Sciences, specialization area Language Development and Disorders, from NOVA FCSH, since 2020, having developed a dissertation on “Perfil de crianças com alterações fonológicas: contributo para o diagnóstico em Terapia da Fala” under the supervision of Professors Susana Correia and Ana Castro.
She graduated in Speech Therapy in 2018 at IPS-ESS.
Elinaldo Silva has a PhD in Linguistics at the Universidade Federal do Ceará/Brazil. He has a Master’s in Linguistics from the same university. He has a specialization in Teaching and Learning of Portuguese Language from the Instituto de Ensino Superior Franciscano. He has a degree in Languages from the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão. He is currently teaching in the Language Course at the Faculdade do Maranhão/FACAM. He was Pro-Rector of Teaching of the State Institute of Education of Maranhão/IEMA from 2015 to 2017 and Director of Teaching and Research of IEMA from 2017 to 2021, and, at the same time, a researcher in the Teacher Training Program of the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Brazil. He is a member of the Group of Studies and Research in Applied Linguistics/GEPLA of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics of the Federal University of Ceará and collaborator of the Grammar and Text/G&T Group of the NOVA University Lisbon. His main research interests lie in the area of Applied Linguistics, working mainly on Portuguese language teaching, written production and initial and continuing teacher training.
PhD student in Portuguese Linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon. Master in Language Studies (UFRN), with emphasis on Variationist Sociolinguistics. Graduated in Portuguese Language Literature and Literature (UFRN) and Degree in Geography (IFRN). Experience as a Portuguese and Literature teacher at the IFRN campus Santa Cruz (IFRN-SC), at the Universidade Potiguar (UnP), in an extension project at UFRN (DCE) and proofreader of Language texts.
Ph.D. in Portuguese Linguistics from Universidade Aberta (2006) and Master’s in Portuguese Linguistics from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra (1997). Assistant Professor at Universidade Aberta (Department of Humanities), where he has been teaching Linguistics courses since 1995. His research interests encompass textual classifications, academic discourse genres, and academic writing.
Juliano Sippel holds a master’s degree in Language Studies, by Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, and a degree in Letters, Portuguese and Spanish, by Universidade Federal do Paraná. Works with language teaching and editing and production of teaching materials. He is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and a FCT grant holder (ref.: 2023.05107.BD), developing the project “Ensino de escrita e desenvolvimento de manuais didáticos de português L2″ under the supervision of Professor Ana Madeira.
Ana Sofia Souto has a Master of Arts degree in Language Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Portuguese Studies, both from NOVA FCSH, where she was awarded the “Mérito e Excelência Melhores Mestres” and “Mérito e Excelência Melhores Licenciados” prizes. She represented Portugal at the 16th Edition from ‘Jóvenes Líderes Iberoamericanos’ in Madrid, Spain. Since October 2020, she collaborates with the organization “Serviço Jesuíta aos Refugiados – Portugal”, where she works as a volunteer teacher of Portuguese level A1. With a research grant from FCT (ref.: 2021.04523.BD), she is currently a PhD student in Text and Discourse Linguistics at NOVA FCSH. As part of her PhD, she co-founded the Discussion Group “Entre Textos: Diálogos Transatlânticos em Linguística do Texto e do Discurso”, which has been running since March 2021 and regularly brings together professors, researchers and students from both sides of the Atlantic around textual and discursive issues.
Holds a master’s degree in Linguistics and Literary Studies and was awarded an EUTOPIA co-tutelle PhD Scholarship (EUTOPIA-PhD-2021-0000000063). He has been developing his research in the area of the acquisition of foreign/second language phonology. Within the joint PhD program EUTOPIA 2022, he is conducting the PhD project “Investigating the impact of implicit and explicit instruction on phonological acquisition in a second language”, under the supervision of Susana Correia (NOVA FCSH) and Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
PhD in Didactics of Languages, with specialization in French Foreign Language, at NOVA University Lisbon / Universidade Aberta, he holds a master’s degree in teaching from Portuguese and Spanish obtained in the University of Lisbon (FLUL). He is professor of Spanish Language at Lusíada University of Lisbon, French lecturer at NOVA FCSH and High School Portuguese teacher. He develops research in the area of foreign language didactics, linguistics, vocabulary teaching and third language acquisition.
Federica Vezzani is assistant professor – RTDa – at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Padua. Her main research interests are: Terminology, Terminography, Specialized Translation and Technical Communication. In particular, she focuses on the management of multilingual terminology according to ISO standard for terminology, and she has developed the FAIR terminology paradigm for the optimal organization of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable terminological data. She recently published the book “Terminologie numérique: conception, représentation et gestion” by Peter Lang publisher in 2022.
PhD student in Linguistics focusing on Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, at NOVA FCSH, under the supervision of Professor Raquel Amaro and Professor Matilde Gonçalves. She holds a Master’s degree in Language Sciences with a specialization in Terminology and Specialty Information Management from the same institution. She was a research fellow in the EXPRIMI (UIDB/03213/2020) in which she developed her master’s thesis entitled “Text mining for the detection of linguistic traits of inclusiveness: analysis of texts used in the reception and integration of migrant people”.
Tibor Vocásek is a PhD Student at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University Prague. He investigates topics on the edge of sociolinguistics, critical (digital) sociology, and media studies. His PhD project, funded by GAUK, is titled “Future According to Whom? Corpus-assisted Critical Analysis of the Imaginaries of Digital Economy in Czech Media.” He graduated with a master’s degree in political science, plus holds a bachelor’s in media studies and journalism from Masaryk University in Brno. He has also been organising workshops in media literacy for several local organisations.
Yolanda Xavier is a PhD student in Linguistics, specialty area of Psycholinguistics (FCT grant 2022.13977.BD). She completed her Bachelor degree in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (English Studies) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and her Master in English Didactics, a collaboration between NOVA FCSH and Aberta University. She worked as an English teacher at different study centers in the Lisbon area and as a technical translator from Portuguese and English to Russian. Her PhD research focuses on the effects of pronunciation in linguistic stereotyping. Main areas of interest: Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics and Phonology, Linguistic Stereotyping.
PhD student in Linguistics at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University Lisbon, specialized in Linguistics and Language Teaching. He completed his master’s degree in the area of syntax and second language acquisition at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2021 and graduated in Portuguese Language and Culture at Beijing International Studies University (BISU) in 2017. His research interests focus on syntax and second language acquisition.