Teachers

• Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies - CETAPS

Teaching languages

Scientific areas

• Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies

• Intercultural communication

• citizenship education

• teaching literature/language/culture

• FL education through the arts

Research Associations and Networks

• IALIC (International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication)

• APEAA (Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos)

• CULTNET

• ICC Global (Global Network on Intercultural Competence)

• GECI (Group of Comparative Studies in Interculturality) / SPCE

Research Projects

• TEALS (Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies)

Selected Publications

• (2015) Mark Sawyer & Ana Gonçalves Matos. "The intercultural role of literature in foreign language teaching: A comparative study (Portugal and Japan)". Kotoba to Bunka. Kwansei Gakuin University Language Center, 3 (18), 55-74. ISSN 1343-8530

• (2014). "Narrative Matters in Intercultural Learning – contributions from Jerome Bruner". Revista Lusófona de Educação, 28, 11-22. ISSN: 1646-401X

• (2012) Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning - Exploring New Directions. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang.

• (2011) “Current readers and intercultural learning”. In Arndt Witte and Theo Harden (eds), Intercultural Competence - Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang.

• (2011) "(Re)placing literary texts in the intercultural foreign language classroom". International Education Studies 4 (5), 5-9.

• (2010) "A model for intercultural reading in foreign language education". In M. Cañado (ed.)Proceedings of the XXIII GRETA Convention. Updating TEFL: a Classic Reborn. Jaén: Joxman Editores.

• (2009) "Modes of reading literary texts in a foreign language in intercultural perspective". In Carlos Ceia, Miguel Alarcão e Iolanda Ramos (org), Letras e Ciências, as Duas Culturas de Filipe Furtado - Livro de Homenagem (pp. 153-158). Lisboa: Caleidoscópio

Relevant Professional Experience

• Researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies)

• Coordinator MA Teaching English in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education

• Coordinator MA Teaching English and a Foreign Language in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and in Secondary Education

• Responsible for in-service training seminars

• Member of the editorial board of e-TEALS: an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies. Porto : Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras. Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). Nº 1(2010)- ISSN 1647-712X

• Member of the editorial review board of CLELE (Children’s Literature in English Language Education)