Fitxa persona

Marta Alejandra Cação Lopes-Antão, Doctor in Portuguese Linguistics (Cum laude) from Universidade Aberta de Portugal (recognized by the University of Valencia).

Master’s degree in Portuguese as a Non-Native Language from Universidade Aberta, Portugal, awarded with an Academic Merit Letter and an Excellent grade. Recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Universities as a Master’s degree in the field of “Arts and Humanities,” with a specialization in “Languages.”

Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German Studies) from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Degree officially recognized as German Philology by the University de Valencia.

Portuguese language teacher at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas València-Zaïdia, holding a permanent civil servant position.

Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish Philology, Portuguese Philology Area, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of València.

Tutor Professor for the Sociolinguistics course of the Applied Languages Degree, Department of Humanities, Universidade Aberta, Portugal.

She has received scholarships for research stays abroad in Germany (University of Hamburg and Technische Universität Nürnberg) and the United Kingdom (University of Cambridge).

Research interests: Impoliteness and the construction of discursive identities in virtual interactions within the framework of Interactional Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis; pragmatic competence of students of Portuguese as a non-native language in bilingual contexts.

She has held leadership positions at the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura, Universitats i Ocupació of the Generalitat Valenciana, serving as General Coordinator of the Linguistic Media Libraries of the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas of the Valencian Community (2020–2024), and at the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de València, where she served as Head of the Portuguese Department at various periods, as Cycle Coordinator, and as Coordinator of the Linguistic Media Library.

She was a member of the drafting committee for the Portuguese Certification Exams for the Valencian Community from 2007 to 2020.

She drafted the linguistic curriculum for intermediate and advanced levels of Portuguese for the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura, Universitats i Ocupació, Generalitat Valenciana (2006–2007).

She has published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, including “O poder simbólico da indelicadeza e a construção de identidades discursivas em interações virtuais” (Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística) and “A delicadeza e as formas de tratamento em português língua não materna: um estudo de caso numa sociedade bilingue em Espanha” (Revista Diacrítica, University of Minho), as well as research books, such as “A construção do discurso em ambientes digitais: contributos para o estudo dos rituais verbais de indelicadeza” (Pelos Mares da Língua Portuguesa 5, Volume 2: Language and Teaching, University of Aveiro) and “Corpus eRaro Portugués, Informe del corpus, Fichas de Expresión Oral A2 portugués” in Metodología y evaluación de lenguas (Generalitat Valenciana, Department of Education, Research, Culture, and Sports).

She has delivered presentations at international and national conferences: “O poder simbólico da indelicadeza e a construção de identidades discursivas em interações virtuais,” paper evaluated by the Scientific Committee and presented at the XXXIX National Meeting of the Portuguese Linguistics Association (2023), University of Beira Interior (Covilhã); “A construção do discurso em ambientes digitais: contributos para o estudo dos rituais verbais de indelicadeza,” 5th International Congress Across the Seas of the Portuguese Language (Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, 2022); “Volunteering in Hortobágy National Park, Debrecen,” International Conference Perspectives on International Volunteer Service, Budapest, Hungary (2003); “Fichas de autoaprendizaje en las mediatecas lingüísticas,” Conference on Learning Autonomy: Learn to Learn, Regional Secretariat for Education and Vocational Training of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (2021); “Observation Visit to the John Trim Language Centre in Cambridge,” Conference on Language Media Libraries: Lifelong Learning Autonomy, Direcció General de Política Lingüística i Gestió del Multilingüisme de la Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Escola Oficial D’Idiomas de València-Zaïdia (2019).

She has participated in educational innovation projects: “Artistic Resistances: Artistic Processes in Educational Settings,” Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana.

She has designed and coordinated the Erasmus+ scholarship exchange program for Portuguese students in collaboration with Portuguese educational institutions.

Accreditation in Digital Competences applied to pedagogical practice, level B2, from the Conselleria d'Educació, Cultura i Esport, Generalitat Valenciana.