Innovation in Language Learning
Maria de Lurdes Martins
Institution: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu - CI&DEI
Country: Portugal
Dr. Maria de Lurdes Martins is an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, where she teaches Business English and English for Tourism to undergraduate students. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (2012) from the University of Aveiro. Her research interests include Web 2.0 enhanced foreign language learning, dialogical and dialectical language learning, social networked language learning and telecollaboration projects across cultures.
She has been part of virtual exchange projects since 2014. It started as a European project that involved students from Portugal, Germany, Italy and France collaborating online and producing digital content. Since then she has collaborated in in the planning and implementation of virtual mobility projects with Germany, the USA, Canada, Ghana and Kenya. The participation in these projects has allowed the participation in international conferences and some publications. She has Postgraduate Education in Multimedia in Education and has developed a PhD thesis in the area of Web 2.0 technologies in Foreign Language Learning. Between 2012 and 2018, she coordinated Erasmus + mobility in my department and was co-responsible for the creation of 3 International Semesters aimed at Erasmus students.
Areas of expertise: virtual mobility, digitally mediated international collaboration, international project planning and management, higher education, school education, vocational training, e-learning, language learning, languages for specific purposes.
She has been part of virtual exchange projects since 2014. It started as a European project that involved students from Portugal, Germany, Italy and France collaborating online and producing digital content. Since then she has collaborated in in the planning and implementation of virtual mobility projects with Germany, the USA, Canada, Ghana and Kenya. The participation in these projects has allowed the participation in international conferences and some publications. She has Postgraduate Education in Multimedia in Education and has developed a PhD thesis in the area of Web 2.0 technologies in Foreign Language Learning. Between 2012 and 2018, she coordinated Erasmus + mobility in my department and was co-responsible for the creation of 3 International Semesters aimed at Erasmus students.
Areas of expertise: virtual mobility, digitally mediated international collaboration, international project planning and management, higher education, school education, vocational training, e-learning, language learning, languages for specific purposes.
