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Universitat Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2014-10-01 to present | Professor (Department of Education)
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, PT

2013-12-13 to present | Professora Associada Convidada (30% de investigação no CIDTFF) (Departamento de Educação)
Employment
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2013-10-01 to present | Professora de Didática de Línguas Românicas (Formação de professores) (Instituto de Roman+istica)
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Instituto Camões - ICL: Berlin, DE

2010-09-01 to 2013-08-31 | Coordenadora do Ensino Português na Alemanha (Embaixada de Portugal em Berlim - Departamento de Educação)
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2009 to 2010 | Professora contratada tempo determinado (substituição durante 1 semestre) de Didática de Línguas Românicas (Instituto de Romanística)
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Education and qualifications (3)

Université de Grenoble III: Grenoble, Rhône-Alpes, FR

2006-10-01 to 2010 | Pos-Doc (Ramo Didática de Línguas e Política Linguística) (LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles))
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, PT

2001 to 2006 | Doutoramento / PhD em Didática de Línguas (Departamento de Didática e Tecnologia Educativa)
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, PT

1995 to 2000 | Licenciatura em Ensino de Português e Francês (Departamento de Didática e Tecnologia Educativa)
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Professional activities (1)

Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores: Aveiro, Aveiro, PT

2006-10-01 to present | Investigadora (Departamento de Educação e Psicologia)
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Funding (1)

Languages and Education: constructing and sharing professional knowledge

2007-10 to 2010-12 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
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Linguistic Landscapes as a Pedagogical Tool to Promote Global Citizenship Skills

2025-01-23 | Book chapter
Contributors: Joana Duarte; Mónica Lourenço; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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An inconvenient truth: When ideologies of multilingualism lead to auto‐inflicted epistemic exclusion by multilingual students in higher education

International Journal of Applied Linguistics
2024-10-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Sílvia Melo‐Pfeifer; Vander Tavares
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Service Learning for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education: Proposals for Pre-Service (Language) Teacher Education

Education Sciences
2024-07-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Joana Duarte; Nadia Gerritsen; Mónica Lourenço; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Susana Pinto
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Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches
2023 | Book
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2-s2.0-85173387962

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Ollivier, C.
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Between multilingual ethos and English pathos: how do multilingual scholars navigate international academia?

Language and Education
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85167894032

Part of ISSN: 09500782
Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Building a virtual transnational space for initial teacher education with Australian and German students

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85147746391

Part of ISSN: 01434632
Contributors: Ollerhead, S.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Chik, A.
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Conclusion: Linguistic Landscapes in Education—Where Do We Go Now?

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85156149860

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Lourenço, M.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Conclusion: Somewhere over the rainbow … a place for multilingual assessment?

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85173309498

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Ollivier, C.
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Crossing linguistic and disciplinary boundaries? Linguistic practices in STEM/S.T.E.M. classrooms, or how a multilingual habit does not make a multilingual monk

Language, Culture and Curriculum
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85164523273

Part of ISSN: 07908318
Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Discussion of the special issue. Beliefs about multilingualism: is a methodological and epistemological change necessary?

International Journal of Multilingualism
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85148506132

Part of ISSN: 14790718
Contributors: Chik, A.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Do societal and individual multilingualism lead to positive perceptions of multilingualism and language learning? A comparative study with Australian and German pre-service teachers

Language Awareness
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85165251506

Part of ISSN: 17477565 09658416
Contributors: Chik, A.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Dominant Language Constellations, Identity, and Awareness: a posse ad esse

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85167906001

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Aronin, L.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Introduction: Linguistic Landscapes in Language (Teacher) Education: Multilingual Teaching and Learning Inside and Beyond the Classroom

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85156150044

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Introduction: On the unbearable lightness of monolingual assessment practices in education

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches
2023 | Book
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2-s2.0-85173290440

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Ollivier, C.
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Introduction: Understanding Identity and Language(s) Awareness by Dint of DLC

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85167906568

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Aronin, L.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Learning About Disinformation Through Situated and Responsive Pedagogy: Bridging the Gap Between Students’ Digital and School Lives

Education in the Age of Misinformation: Philosophical and Pedagogical Explorations
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85172101075

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Dedecek Gertz, H.
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Refugee “calouros” during the Covid-19 pandemic: effects on Portuguese learning in higher education in Brazil

Intercultural Education
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85148284681

Part of ISSN: 14698439 14675986
Contributors: Ruano, B.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Teacher and Student Perspectives on the Use of Linguistic Landscapes as Pedagogic Resources for Enhancing Language Awareness: A Focus on the Development of Cognitive and Affective Dimensions

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85156108012

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Brinkmann, L.M.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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The Co-Construction of the Concept “Linguistic Landscape” by Language Educators in an Online Course

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85156129049

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Araújo e Sá, M.H.; Carinhas, R.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Simões, A.R.
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The Dynamics of Dominant Language Constellations: Moments of Linguistic ‘Ecological Transition’ as Portrayed by Pre-service Language Teachers

Multilingual Education
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85167920362

Part of ISSN: 22133216 22133208
Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Using the European Language Portfolio for the assessment of plurilingual students in the foreign language classroom

Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85173346065

Contributors: Brinkmann, L.M.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Young students learning German as a foreign language in primary school: A scoping review

OSF Registries
2023 | Other
Contributors: Alice Chik; Emilia Djonov; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Catharina Weiss
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“Bangla Helps Learners to Get the Gist Better”–Translanguaging in Postcolonial English as a Foreign Language Classes in Higher Education in Bangladesh

Handbook of Multilingual TESOL in Practice
2023 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85173349061

Contributors: Sadequle Islam, M.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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A paisagem linguística: Uma ferramenta pedagógica no âmbito de uma educação plurilingue e para a cidadania global

Diacrítica
2023-05-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Mónica Lourenço; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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"this topic was inconsiderate of our culture": Jordanian students' perceptions of intercultural clashes in IELTS writing tests

Applied Linguistics Review
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85129530697

Part of ISSN: 18686311 18686303
Contributors: Altakhaineh, A.R.M.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Crossing Linguistic and Disciplinary Knowledge: How Multilingual Classroom Practices Support Critical STEM Pedagogies in Germany

AERA 2022
2022 | Other
Contributors: Silvia Melo-Pfeifer
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How is the bilingual development of Portuguese heritage children perceived by their parents? Results from an ethnographic case study of a non-formal learning setting in Germany

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85080928604

Contributors: Costa Waetzold, J.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Multimodal linguistic biographies of prospective foreign language teachers in Germany: reconstructing beliefs about languages and multilingual language learning in initial teacher education

International Journal of Multilingualism
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85084250100

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Chik, A.
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The Pluricentricity of Spanish: Origin, Pedagogical Issues, and Its Appearance in Course Books in Germany and Portugal

International Journal of Literacies
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85140598262

Part of ISSN: 2327266X 23270136
Contributors: Cruz, M.D.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Transforming Disinformation on Minorities Into a Pedagogical Resource: Towards a Critical Intercultural News Literacy

Media and Communication
2022 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85145838298

Part of ISSN: 21832439
Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Gertz, H.D.
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“Qual é a minha e a tua língua?”: do code-switching ao translanguaging und zurück nas narrativas visuais de crianças lusodescendentes na Alemanha.

Língua e identidade no mundo lusófono
2022-08 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Linguistic Landscapes in the Home: Multilingual Children’s Toys, Books and Games.

The Cambridge Handbook of Childhood Multilingualism
2022-08 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Und wir sind weggelaufen: Borders and Walls in Narratives of Forced Displacement– A Study with Middle Eastern Refugees’ Visual Narratives in the German as a Second Language (DaZ) Classroom

Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East
2022-08 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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8 Developing Multiliteracies in Online Multilingual Interactions: The Example of Chat-Room Conversations in Romance Languages

Multilingual Literacy
2021 | Other
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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Developing multiliteracies in online multilingual interactions: The example of chat-room conversations in romance languages

Multilingual Literacy
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85109630294

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Exploiting foreign language student-teachers’ visual language biographies to challenge the monolingual mind-set in foreign language education

International Journal of Multilingualism
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85109733164

Part of ISSN: 14790718
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Fostering more inclusive linguistic practices in portuguese classrooms: Is teacher education the key for integrating heritage languages?

Migration, Multilingualism and Education: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85114588359

Contributors: Faneca, R.M.; Sá, M.H.A.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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From TESOL to TOLSE: Plurilingual Repertoires at the Heart of Language Learning and Teaching

Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism: Past, Present and the Way Forward
2021 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85158923426

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Introduction: The changing face of the "native speaker": Perspectives from multilingualism and globalization

The Changing Face of the "Native Speaker?: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85136849443

Contributors: Slavkov, N.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Kerschhofer-Puhalo, N.
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Migrant and refugee students’ right to linguistic education: Sociopolitical, sociolinguistic and educational reflections on Brazilian and German cases,Direito à educação linguística de alunos migrantes e refugiados: Reflexões sociopolíticas, sociolinguísticas e educativas em torno dos casos Brasileiro e Alemão,El derecho de los estudiantes inmigrantes y refugiados a la educación lingüística: Reflexiones sociopolíticas, sociolingüísticas y educativas sobre los casos Brasileño y Alemán

Education Policy Analysis Archives
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85107725376

Part of ISSN: 10682341
Contributors: Friedrich, T.S.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Ruano, B.
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Online plurilingual interaction: Identity construction and development of plurilingual competence in students and teachers: A focus on intercomprehension

The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85124777736

Contributors: Araújo e Sá, M.H.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.
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Practice-proof concepts? Rethinking linguistic borders and families in multilingual communication: Exploiting the relationship between intercomprehension and translanguaging

The Changing Face of the "Native Speaker?: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85136867231

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The Changing Face of the "Native Speaker?: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization

The Changing Face of the "Native Speaker?: Perspectives from Multilingualism and Globalization
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85136850681

Contributors: Slavkov, N.; Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Kerschhofer-Puhalo, N.
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Understanding Dominant Language Constellations Through Analysis of Visual Linguistic Autobiographies by Foreign Language Student Teachers in Germany

Educational Linguistics
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85109844944

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“Wie soll ich das Kind bewerten?” Between Standardization and Differentiation in the Assessment of Plurilingual Refugee Students in Foreign-Language Classes in Germany: A Qualitative Study of Teachers’ Practices and Perceptions

Educational Linguistics
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85127849735

Contributors: Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Thölkes, M.
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Introduction: The changing face of the “native speaker”

The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker”
2021-11-08 | Other
Contributors: Nikolay Slavkov; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo
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Repères sociolinguistiques pour l’enseignement de l’intercompréhension

Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
2021-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1958-5772
Contributors: Maria Helena de Araújo e Sá; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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From TESOL to TOLSE: Plurilingual Repertoires at the Heart of Language Learning and Teaching

Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism
2021-08 | Other
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
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Apresentação: Métodos visuais na investigação com públicos plurilíngues - Visões multidisciplinares

Revista X
2021-05-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1980-0614
Contributors: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer; Tatyana Sheila Friedrich; Bruna Pupatto Ruano; Francisco Calvo Del Olmo
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Students’ perceptions of plurilingual nonnative teachers in higher education: An added or a mudded value?

Multilingualism and third language acquisition: Learning and teaching trends
2021-02-15 | Book chapter
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