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Ana Leão is currently an invited assistant professor in the Section of Autonomous Education and General Training, namely in the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Modern Literatures 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 at Nova University Lisbon; Inclusion and Diversity, a cross-cutting unit in various master's programs in teaching; Education, Curricula and Multiculturality to various masters’ degrees; Language and Intercultural Education (Master’s in teaching English in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education and Master’s in teaching English in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education). She also teaches the curricular units Didactics of English I and II in the Language Teaching Master's programmes at the University of the Azores. She holds a Ph.D. in Didactics of Foreign Language Teaching - Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship. Her interests include areas of education for intercultural citizenship, methodologies for teaching foreign languages, and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) or in Portuguese, AICL (Aprendizagem Integrada de Conteúdo e Língua). She has been working for Kendirstudios and DGE (Directorate-General for Education in Portugal), as an evaluator and validator of educational content for digital educational games in the field of languages and other interdisciplinary subjects. She is a member of CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo Portuguese Studies) at Nova University Lisbon. She was a member of the coordinating team of CANDIICE, a European Erasmus+ project for innovation and research for educators for citizenship. She was awarded a research scholarship from CETAPS and FCT in 2020. She has published several articles in journals and a book chapter on CLIL. She has received 2 awards and/or honourable mentions. In her professional activities, she has collaborated with 2 co-authors on scientific articles. In her Curriculum Vitae, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological, and artistic-cultural production are: Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR); Intercultural Competence; Intercultural Domain; English Language Teaching (ELT); Teachers' Perceptions and Beliefs; Citizenship and Development; Democratic Competence; Integrated Content and Language Learning; Curriculum Goals; Scientific Domain/Area: Education Sciences: language teaching; Scientific Domain/Field: Education Sciences: Language Teaching. She also has experience as a foreign language teacher, translator, and interpreter in Iceland, Portugal, and Spain. She taught English to young people and adolescents (2nd and 3rd cycles) for 27 years in Portugal. She was vice-president and coordinator of tutors in a school cluster in Setúbal, where she developed new learning projects for adolescents with special needs or at risk of dropping out. She also had experience as a foreign language teacher for adults from different cultures and backgrounds in Madrid and Reykjavik. She worked as an English teacher in language institutes in Madrid and Reykjavik and as a translator and interpreter at the University of Iceland and Islandsstofa.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ANA ISABEL DOS SANTOS PONCE DE LEÃO

Citation names

  • Leão, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F18-3861-9C3D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7068-0230

Email addresses

  • aleao@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
  • anaponceleao@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna, 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
  • Universidade dos açores, Campus de Ponta Delgada Rua da Mãe de Deus , 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Languages Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Icelandic Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/12 - 2023/03/10
Concluded
Ph.D. in Language Didactics - Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship (Doutoramento)
Major in Language didactics and Global Citizenship
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
"Citizenship and English as a Foreign Language Symbiosis in Mainstream Schooling: a Key to Intercultural Democratic Education" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito Bom por unanimidade
2015/09/01 - 2017/11/17
Concluded
English didactics (Mestrado)
Major in Education in English as a Foreign language
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Interculturality in English Teaching - A small study with Portuguese teachers" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18 por unanimidade
1993/05/31
Concluded
Degree in English and Portuguese didactics (Licenciatura)
Major in English and Portuguese Didactics
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/02/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2023/01/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade dos Açores Departamento de Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/09/01 - 2023/08/31 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Agrupamento de Escolas Barbosa du Bocage, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2014/08/01 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Agrupamento de Escolas Barbosa du Bocage, Portugal
2000/09/01 - 2007/08/31 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Agrupamento de Escolas Barbosa du Bocage, Portugal
1993/09/01 - 2000/08/31 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal
1988/09/01 - 1993/08/01 Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023 - Current Scientific Supervisor of didactic computer games for mandatory education (Kendir Studios and Directorate-General for Education) Kendir Studios, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2022/08/31 Bolseira de Investigação Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2015/02/01 - 2018/06/30 Tradutora e intérprete Háskóli Islands, Iceland
2015/06/01 - 2018/05/20 Professora de inglês e português Multikulti language Institute , Iceland
2008/08/01 - 2010/08/01 Tradutora e professora de português e inglês King's college, Spain
2007 - 2008/08/31 Tradutora Transhotel, Spain
2000/09/01 - 2002/08/01 Professora de inglês- cursos de turismo e serviços sociais Escola Profissional Cristovão Colombo, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/11/01 - 2022/08/31 Citizenship and English as a Foreign Language symbiosis on mainstream schooling: the key to Intercultural Democratic Education
UI/BD/151106/2021
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31 CANDIICE - a European Erasmus+ innovation and research project for citizenship educators
Research Fellow
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 CETAPS - Centro de Estudos Ingleses, de Tradução e Anglo-Portugueses
UID/ELT/04097/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Leão, Ana. "From Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to Intercultural citizenship and Language Integrated Learning (ICLIL)". In Contexts and conditions for successful CLIL in Portugal, 201-227. Portugal: U.Porto Press, 2022.
    Published
  2. Leão, Ana. "Intercultural Citizenship for all through CLIL in mandatory schooling in Portugal". In Educação em línguas e cidadania global: mapeando caminhos e possibilidades de ação. Portugal, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Leão, Ana. "ESTILOS DE APRENDIZAJE Y LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DIGITALES: LA COMPETENCIA CULTURAL INTERCULTURAL EN EL AULA DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA.". Paper presented in CMEA 2018 - VIII Congreso Mundial de Estilos de Aprendizaje, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Leão, Ana. "Interculturality in English Language Teaching – A Small Study with Portuguese Teachers". e-Teals 8 (2018): 107-125. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/et/article/view/5070.
  2. Leão, Ana. "Interculturality in English Language Teaching". Via Panorâmica Journal 7 2 (2018): 36-51. https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/VP/article/view/5489.
    Published
  3. Leão, Ana. "HorTICultura–um blogue da turma 5º-1ª da EB2, 3 de Bocage em Setúbal". Prisma Com 3 (2006): http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11959/brapci/73001.
    Published
Online resource
  1. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring digital apps and graffiti to deal with injustice. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/THE-POWER-OF-ART-FOR-JUSTICE-AND-EQUALITY-1.pdf.
  2. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring picturebooks to deal with gender equality. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DRAMATISE-%E2%80%98THE-WORST-PRINCESS-FOR-MORE-GENDER-EQUALITY.pdf.
  3. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring picturebooks to deal with conflict.. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dealing-with-conflict-through-picturebooks-1.pdf.
  4. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring picturebooks to deal with difference. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dealing-with-difference-through-picturebooks.pdf.
  5. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring Animaker to make a digital campaign. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MAKE-A-DIGITAL-CAMPAIGN.pdf.
  6. Leão, Ana. Learning activities for CLIL (Citizenship and English)- Exploring a free game-making app to prevent dictatorship. 2022. https://candiice.com/exploring-digital-apps/.
  7. Leão, Ana. Training Units - Unit 4- Democratic competences in a digital learning universe. 2022. https://candiice.com/unit-4-democratic-competences-in-the-digital-learning-universe/.
  8. Leão, Ana. Training units - Unit 2- Reference Framework for Democratic culture. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Unit-2.pdf.
  9. Leão, Ana. Building better democracy through creative education - GUIDANCE FOR EDUCATION LEADERS AND INNOVATORS. 2022. https://candiice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Guidance-for-Education-Leaders.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Leão, Isabel Ponce de. "Citizenship and english as a foreign language symbiosis in mainstream schooling: a key to intercultural democratic education". PhD, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/13757.
  2. Leão, Ana Isabel dos Santos Ponce de. "Interculturality in English Teaching - A small study with Portuguese teachers". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/27903.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/16 Presented a communication titled ‘What is Inclusive Education without equitable pedagogy?’ at a conference aimed at doctoral and master’s students in education. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCSH, 16th April 2024. Inclusion and diversity
(Portugal)
2022/07/13 Participated in the 5th Advanced Research Seminar: On a Verbal-visual continuum: Approaches to data collection and analysis, with a presentation entitled ‘Intercultural Citizenship Education through CLIL to spark democracy learning’, organized by CETAPS/Nova University – 13 July. On a Verbal-visual continuum: Approaches to data collection and analysis
2022/07/07 Participated in the World CLIL International Conference 2022: Sharing Classrooms, Sharing Worlds in Hague with a presentation entitled ‘Democratic competence for all through CLIL in mandatory schooling’, 7-8 July. Sharing Classrooms, Sharing Worlds in Hague
2022/05/31 Gave a talk about the Reference Framework of Competences for a Culture of Democracy, face-to-face to teachers in Zagreb, 31 May 2022. Language teaching congress
Forum Za Slobodu Odgoja (Zagreb, Croatia)
2021/07/15 Participated in the 3rd Advanced Research Seminar: Research in progress: Looking at the dark side, with a presentation called ‘Taking advantage of viruses and other maladies to enhance empirical research”, organized by CETAPS/Nova University – 15 July. Research in progress: Looking at the dark side
2021/06/11 A presentation of a study on a methodological symbiosis involving English teaching, education for global citizenship, and digital tools. Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approaches to Learning and Teaching (INCOLLAB) 2021
INCOLLAB (Portugal)
2020/10/07 A presentation of a study on a methodological symbiosis involving English teaching, education for global citizenship, and digital tools. NECE – Networking European Citizenship Education – International exchange to encourage the advancement of civic education
NECE (Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/09 - Current The Contribution of Playful Activities to the Promotion of Interculturality in the Second Cycle of Basic Education. Master's in Teaching Portuguese and English in the 2nd Cycle of Basic Education – University of the Azores
Supervisor
Educação (Master)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current Competences for a Democratic Culture: Stimulating Critical Thinking through Debate and Textual Analysis.- Master's in Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Language (English) in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Supervisor
Ciências da Educação (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current The Importance of Producing Argumentative Texts for a Critical Intercultural Education in Languages. Master's in Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Language (English) in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Supervisor
Ciências da Educação (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current Education for Citizenship in Language Teaching: The Opinion Article as a Pedagogical Tool. Master's in Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Language (English) in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Supervisor
Ciências da Educação (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current Deconstructing news media narratives in the EFL classroom: Developing learners' media literacy towards critical cultural awareness. Master's in Teaching English in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education.
Supervisor
Ciências da Educação (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current Dramatization as a Pedagogical Tool to Develop Students' General Competencies in English and Spanish as Foreign Language Classes. Master's in Teaching English and Foreign Languages in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education – Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Supervisor
Ciências da Educação (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2025/01/27 The Literary Text as a Vehicle for Promoting Intercultural Dialogue. Master's in Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Language (English) in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Supervisor
Teaching English and Portuguese (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2021/07/15 - Current Co-organized and co-hosted - the 3rd TEALS/CETAPS Advanced Research Seminar: Research in progress: Looking at the dark side, 15 July 2021. (2021/07 - 2021/07/15)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/11/15 - 2024/11/16 Co-organized and co-hosted the 9th TEFL Conference: Innovation in English language education: Adapting pedagogies to meet modern challenges, CETAPS, Nova Universidade de Lisboa, FCSH, 15 and 16 November 2024. (2024/11/15 - 2024/11/16)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/07/16 - 2024/07/16 Co-hosted the 9th TEALS/CETAPS Advanced Research Seminar: Researching Language Learning:and Language Education, 16 July 2024. (2024/07/16 - 2024/07/16)
Seminar (Other)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2024/02/08 - 2024/02/08 Co-hosted the 8th TEALS/CETAPS Advanced Research Seminar: Researching Language education: Taking Stock, 8 February 2024. (2024/02/08 - 2024/02/08)
Seminar (Other)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2022/03/10 - 2022/03/12 Co-organized the three-day International CANDIICE Conference - Creative Approaches to Democracy Education, CETAPS/Nova University, March 10-12, 2022, and chaired the following panels: virtual dimensions of democracy education; research on democracy education; empowering students as democratic agents; and teacher training for democracy. (2022/03/10 - 2022/03/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/02/04 - 2022/02/04 Co-organized the 4th Advanced Research Seminar TEALS/CETAPS: Research on the Development of Language Learning Materials, on February 4, 2022. (2022/02/04 - 2022/02/04)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/31 - 2022/05/31 Gave a lecture on the Reference Framework of Competencies for a Culture of Democracy to teachers in Zagreb on May 31, 2022.
Congress
Skola Forum
Škola Forum, Croatia
2022/03/25 - 2022/03/25 Conducted a seminar titled "Digital Apps to Spark Democracy Learning" for teachers in Croatia on March 25, 2022.
Workshop
Democracy
Good skolica, Croatia
2022/03/10 - 2022/03/12 Conducted a workshop titled "Digital Apps to Spark Democracy Learning" at the International CANDIICE Conference - Creative Approaches to Democracy Education, CETAPS/Nova University, March 10-12, 2022.
Conference
CANDIICE International Conference – Creative Approaches to Democracy Education
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/01/27 The literary text as a vehicle for promoting intercultural dialogue. Supervised Teaching Practice of the Master's in Teaching Portuguese and Foreign Language in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education. – January 27.
Supervisor
Mireie Nadine Pinto Correia Pereira Lota (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2025/01/13 The Promotion of Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom through Digital Storytelling. STP - Master's in Teaching English and Foreign Languages in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education Specialization Area: English and Spanish. – January, 13.
(Thesis) Arguer
Jéssica Patrícia Craveiro Silva (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current English didactics I English didactics I (Mestrado) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current English didactics II English didactics II (Mestrado) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current Supervised Teaching Practice Supervised Teaching Practice (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/02/28 Language, Interculturality and Education for citizenship (Master’s in teaching English in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education); Language, Interculturality and Education for citizenship (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/02/28 Language and Intercultural Education (Master’s in teaching English in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education) Language and Intercultural Education (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/02/01 - 2024/08/31 Education, Curriculum and Multiculturality (multiple master’s degrees) Education, Curriculum and Multiculturality (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/29 Inclusion and Diversity in the classroom (multiple master’s degrees) Inclusion and Diversity in the classroom (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/08/31 Intercultural communication and Reflection in Context (Bachelor's degree in Management and Portuguese for Chinese students) Intercultural communication and Reflection in Context (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/22 Organised and taught an accredited course titled "Learning about, through, and for Democracy," in collaboration with Dr. Ana Gonçalves Matos and Dr. Cândida Neves Couto, through the Luís Krus Center at Nova University Lisbon. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/09/01 - 2022/12/01 Portfolios and Foreign Language Learning Maria Leão
Distinctions

Award

2019 Top student - Master's in English Didactics
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Other distinction

2020 Merit-based scholarship
Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 JRAAS Merit Seal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal