About

Ana Leão is currently an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Nova University Lisbon. She has already taught the following curricular units: Communication and Intercultural Reflection in Context (CRIC) - Bachelor's degree in Portuguese and Management; Inclusion and Diversity, a cross-cutting unit in various master's programmes in teaching; Education, Curricula and Multiculturality to various master's degrees; Language and Intercultural Education (Master's in English teaching in the 3rd cycle of Basic and Secondary Education and Master's in teaching English in the 1st cycle of Basic Education). She also teaches the curricular the units English Didactics I and II in the Language Teaching Master's programmes at the University of Azores.  

She has a doctorate in Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching – Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship. She is interested in the areas of intercultural citizenship education, foreign language teaching methodologies, and CLIL. She is also a member of TEALS – CETAPS. She was a member of the coordinating team of CANDIICE, a European Erasmus+ innovation and research project for citizenship educators. She was awarded a CETAPS and FCT research grant in 2020.

She also has experience as a foreign language teacher, translator, and interpreter in Iceland, Portugal, and Spain. She taught English to young learners and teenagers (2nd and 3rd cycles)for more than 25 years in Portugal. She was vice-president and tutors’ coordinator at a cluster of schools in Setubal, where she developed new learning projects for teenagers with special needs or at risk of dropping out. She also had experience as a foreign language teacher to adults from different cultures and origins in Madrid and Reykjavik. She worked as an English teacher at Languages Institutes in Madrid and Reykjavik. She was also an invited translator and interpreter at Iceland University and Islandsstofa. 

Interculturality in EFL

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