Translation, Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies

• To promote quality research activities in curriculum studies and teacher education related to language learning in Portugal;
• To engage with student/in-service teachers in academically informed and focused classroom based action research projects, to the benefit of the student/in-service teachers, the faculty staff and the host schools;
• To organize regular conferences in Lisbon and Porto with specially invited overseas speakers;
• To encourage the production of articles for publication based on student teachers’ final reports and in-service teachers’ Final Project Work (Trabalho de Projecto), according to norms defined within CETAPS;
• To publicize the activities and research findings of the research area through regular attendance at local and international conferences;
• To develop current and future international links with like-minded faculty members throughout Europe, making use of existing staff contacts;
• To support teachers and translators in practice to adapt to the changing needs of their profession;
• To create new internationally linked research projects with a strong impact on language education and translation;
• To offer systematic training to young researchers to help them acquire the skills necessary to present and publish scientific research;
• To explore new areas for interdisciplinary research considering the potential of intercultural multilingual and translation studies;
• To develop international research projects on CLIL (English and other foreign languages) within the network www.clil4children.eu, and applied to vocational learning and other specific academic fields;
• To continue developing the project Pan European Task-based Activities for Language Learning

This research area works within teacher education (covering primary/basic, secondary and tertiary education in Portugal) and provides “add-on value” to CETAPS in terms of research in the field of social sciences and humanities

• Action research in teacher education (particularly that initiated by student/in-service teachers)
• Assessment and evaluation – learners and learning
• Cooperative development in teacher education as a framework for supporting student/in-service teachers
• Developing CLIL in primary English language teaching
• Development of writing skills
• E-learning and Teacher Education
• E-learning at tertiary level
• English pronunciation
• Initial and further teacher development for primary English language teachers
• Intercultural education and (intercultural) citizenship education
• Models for Teacher Education at Master’s level
• Reflective practice in Teacher Education
• Supervision of student-teachers (role of the supervisor; peer feedback on observed lessons)
• Teacher assessment and evaluation
• Teaching English to young learners
• Teaching translation and developing competencies for translators (including assessment of translator competencies)
• Transition from 1º to 2º “ciclos” (attitudes, content, evaluation)
• Translation, Interpreting and Paratranslational Language Studies
• Using debating to promote speaking

Research Fellow:

Dr Sandie Mourão

From 2018, Dr Sandie Mourão will be working as a research fellow at CETAPS / TEALS area, after winning a CEEC Individual contract (FCT). An investigation into developing the intercultural domain in primary English education in Portugal: Children’s literature to support intercultural citizenship education. She’ll be doing a baseline study and then developing, piloting, implementing and evaluating an intervention project for teacher education, which will run through CETAPS. She’ll also be creating teacher resources to go online and a data base of picturebooks, rhymes and folk tales for intercultural understanding and citizenship education.

Post-Doctoral Researchers:

Supervisor: Carlos Ceia

• Alexei José Esteves Xavier: “Management education to study in Brazil, Portugal and England, with a variant of the English language” (CETAPS/FCSH, 2016).
• Nicolás Montalbán.( PhD in English Philology , Universidade de Múrcia, Espanha): “Developing materials for English for Specific and Professional Purposes”, estágio formativo em Lisboa (FCSH), 2-16 Julho de 2017.
• Hélder Fanha Martins, “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games and Incidental Lexical Learning in English for Specific Purposes”, projecto de pós-doutoramento inserido no grupo de investigação TEALS – Teacher, Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies, Outubro de 2017-Outubro de 2019.

Supervisors: Carlos Ceia & António Lopes

• Ana Catarina Leiria de Mendonça Coutinho de Castro: Referência da bolsa: SFRH/BPD/117672/2016; Ciências da Educação; co-orientada pelo Doutor António Lopes (Universidade do Algarve); título: “Novas abordagens para a aprendizagem de línguas: o papel da formação na recetividade de futuros professores de inglês à inovação pedagógica” (Setembro de 2017-Setembro de 2020)

How EFL learners collaborate during task-based peer interaction (March 2018-March 2019)

A research project carried out by Carolyn Leslie (CETAPS)

Objectives

• To describe how learners in 4^th and 7^th years of compulsory education in an EFL context collaborate with a peer to accomplish an oral task.
• To analyse their collaborative talk for evidence of:

1. 1. social interaction that demonstrates co-operation and reciprocity
   2. task management
   3. a focus on language

• To compare how these features differ according to age.

EVALUATE project

This Moodle platform is for students who are taking part in the telecollaborative exchange projects organised by the EVALUATE project. Telecollaboration gives students the opportunity to take part in online intercultural projects with partner-classes around the globe. For more information or to find out how you can get involved in the project, contact: evaluateprojecteu@gmail.com or go to: http://www.evaluateproject.eu/

Translation of Specific Economic and Commercial Texts

Project manager: Clarisse Costa Afonso

Project consisting of the translation of specific texts from the field of economics and trade from German into Portuguese taking into account the address formula and drawing up a glossary, which will take place in the  IÜD (Institut of Translation and Interpretation) of the University of Heidelberg www.iued. uni- heidelberg.de
The three-month scholarship was awarded by ASPPA (association of Portuguese postgraduates in Germany) and Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

• International Forum on English Language Teaching VI (Porto, 2013):
• International Forum on English Language Teaching V: IFELT V Programme Oct 2011 (Porto, 2011)
• International Forum on English Language Teaching IV (Porto, 2009)
• International Forum on English Language Teaching III (Porto, 2008)

• TEFL8 – Learning to communicate – communicating to learn: English language learning in formal education (FCSH, Lisbon 2023)
  Keynote speakers: Will Baker, María del Pilar García Mayo, Dina Tsagari, Flávia Vieira
  

• TEFL – 7th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2018)
  “Intercultural language education for increased European identity and cohesion ” Keynote speakers: Michael Byram, Adelheid Hu
• TEFL – 6th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2016)
  “Communication, culture and creativity in the ELT classroom”, 18-19 November 2016 Keynote speakers: Jenefer Philp, Janice Blan, Libor Stepanek
• TEFL – 5th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2014)
  Keynote speakers: David Little, Joan Turner, Neus Figueras Casanovas
• TEFL – 4th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language ( FCSH, Lisbon, 2012)
  Keynote speakers: Michael Byram, Robert Lew, Brian Tomlinson, Hitomi Masuhara, María Luisa, Pérez Cañado
• TEFL – 3rd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2010)
  Keynote speakers: Dick Allwright, Karen Risager, Patrick Hanks, Judith Hanks.
• TEFL – 2nd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2009)
  Keynote speakers: Do Coyle, Alison Phipps, Mary Spratt
• TEFL – 1st International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2008)
  Keynote speaker: Martin Dewey