Innovation in Language Learning

Elisabete Mendes Silva is Assistant Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança where she teaches English Language and Culture and other related subjects in the Department of Foreign Languages. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Culture studies. In her M.A. studies she specialised in English Culture. She has been a researcher at ULICES - University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies since 2005. At ULICES, she has been involved in the projects on the British Empire and on Victorianism. Her main areas of interest include Culture Studies, English Culture, History of Ideas, History of Political Thought and Liberalism and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). She has been publishing in the areas of English culture and TEFL. Over the last 6 years she has been involved in international research projects, funded by Comenius and Erasmus+, focusing on ICT and interactive teaching materials, namely the project INTACT Interactive teaching materials across culture and technology, AduLeT, TUT4IND. Currently she is the scientific coordinator of the QuIIL Project, together with Pixel.