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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 teaches 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. She also teaches the curricular units Didactics of English I and II in the Language Teaching Master's programs 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 (Integrated Learning of Content and Language). 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 more than 5 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.
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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)
  • Campus de Ponta Delgada Rua da Mãe de Deus , 9500-321, Ponta Delgada, Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

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
2017
Concluded
 English Didactics (Mestrado)
Major in English Didactics
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Interculturality in English Teaching - A small study with Portuguese teachers" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/01 - Current Invited Associate 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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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

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
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
1988/09/01 - 1993/08/01 Professora de inglês do ensino básico e secundário Ministério da Educação, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31 CANDIICE - a European Erasmus+ innovation and research project for citizenship educators
478903
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. 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
Edited book
  1. Leão, Ana; Macário, Maria João; Martins, Filomena; Melão, Dulce; Osório, Regina; Sá, Cristina Manuela; Mesquita, Luciana. Educação em línguas e cidadania global: mapeando caminhos e possibilidades de ação. Aveiro, Portugal: UA Editora. 2022.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.48528/mn4t-4q47
Journal article
  1. Leão, Ana. "Interculturality in English Language Teaching". Via Panorâmica Journal (2018): https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/VP/article/view/5489/5159.
Journal issue
  1. 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, Ana Isabel dos Santos Ponce de. "Interculturality in English Teaching - A small study with Portuguese teachers". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/27903.
Website
  1. Leão, Ana. Foreign Language Education. 2016. https://sites.google.com/site/analeaodidactics/home?authuser=0.

Other

Other output
  1. Interculturality in English Language Teaching – A Small Study with Portuguese Teachers. UNESCO and many other organisations worldwide have been working on approaches in education to develop tolerance, respect for cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue. Particularly, the Council of Europe has laid out guiding principles in several documents to promote intercultural competence, following Byram’s and Zarate’s efforts in integrating this important component in language education.. 2018. Ponce de Leão, Ana. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/et/article/view/5070.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/06/11 A presentation of a study on a methodological symbiosis involving English teaching, education for global citizenship, and digital tools. INCOLLAB - Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approaches to Learning and Teaching (INCOLLAB) 2021

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
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
2020/10/07 - 2020/10/07 A presentation of a study on a methodological symbiosis involving English teaching, education for global citizenship, and digital tools.
Conference
 NECE – Networking European Citizenship Education – International exchange to encourage the advancement of civic education
NECE – Networking European Citizenship Education – International exchange to encourage the advancement of civic education, Germany

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
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